Mormons: Time Sanctifies Everything
After only 180-plus years, Mormonism is indeed entering the world of American mainstream religion--that fatuous realm in which speaking ill of anyone's faith is considered positively
un-American.
May 2007 Archives
May 2, 2007 9:02 AM
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The Man Nobody Knows
One of the primary reasons for the historical success of Christianity has been the malleability of the image of the Jesus of the gospels: he can be, and has been, all things to all people.
May 15, 2007 2:54 PM
The Ill Truth About Falwell
Predictably, obituary writers are already portraying the Reverend Jerry Falwell as a more respectable figure than he was. Ah, what a beautiful tradition it is to speak no ill of the dead!
May 23, 2007 9:58 AM
The Gods: Made in Our Image
Man has always created God--and gods--in his own image. If religion were God-given rather than man-made, there would be only one religion in the world.
Instead, we have an endless supply of major faiths and denominations, monotheistic and polytheistic, directly contradicting one another's "truths." If Christianity is the One True Faith, then Judaism must be a false or incomplete faith. If Islam is the One True Faith--if there really is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet--then of course Christianity and Judaism must be infidel religions. Not to mention Scientology. Yes, Tom Cruise and John Travolta, you too are following a false prophet and an infidel faith.
May 30, 2007 9:43 AM
In Praise of Foxhole Atheists
I did not originally intend to respond to this question, because its underlying premises--first, that it is, a priori, a good thing to "keep" faith and second, that war poses a unique challenge to faith--seem to me irredeemably flawed.
