Mark Farnon provides a post which deals with the common charge that through history more people have died in the name of religion than any other cause. In addition to making some observations about the number of deaths which occurred during the Inquisition or the witchhunts, the following is also included: According to research conducted …
Maintain the rage. It was November 11, 1975. The place, the year seven classroom of the Ormiston State Primary School. The principal, Col Blanchard had entered for some reason or another, and as he left just breezily announced that (Governor-General) John Kerr had sacked Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia. Even twelve-year olds knew that …
Excerpted from a post on the First Presbyterian Jacksonville blog: The Reformational churches were more faithful to Biblical authority and doctrine than the medieval Catholic Church. Luther’s theology focused on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, which he called “the article of a standing or a falling Church.” He taught, contrary to Rome, that …
The visit of the bishop of Rome to Scotland drew lots of comment around the blogopshere. Presbyterians generally look back to our Confession of Faith from 1646, with its identification of Pope of Rome as the antichrist, and feel we’ve got the market on papal protesting all sewn up. This papal protestor trumps the Presbyterians …
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