1. Adam and Eve in the Land of the Dinosaurs

Comment #44833 by Sapare Aude on May 25, 2007 at 11:21 am

I wonder if they view the "Flintstones" as a documentary.

2. Freethinking Ruins All Things

Comment #42527 by Sapare Aude on May 18, 2007 at 10:38 am

The author is dumb. If freethinking is bad, then the middle ages should have been paradise. Yet, it was one of the bloodiest eras of human history, and maintained a thousand years of stagnation. However, the Middle East embraced freethinking and had a golden age, and once freethinking was introduced to Europe, the Renaissance began.

3. Your favorite book in the last 25 years?

Comment #37216 by Sapare Aude on May 3, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Not necessarily from the last 25 years but:
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Brief History of Time - Steven Hawking
"Godel, Escher, Back" - Hofstadter
1984 - George Orwell
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

4. How multiculturalism is betraying women

Comment #36925 by Sapare Aude on May 2, 2007 at 8:19 pm

I thought Europe was above this. After Christians are not permitted to beat their wives event though they could cite the bible and say its their culture.
Here in Timothy 2:11-15 the bible states:
"Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.For Adam was formed first, then Eve.And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
And in Ephesians 5:22-25
"Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."

Though paradoxically it states right afterwards from Ephesians 25-30
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones."

5. Jesus 'Love-Bombs' You

Comment #34913 by Sapare Aude on April 25, 2007 at 3:02 pm

This reminds of a book I read entitled, The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer. It examines both religious and non-religious mass movements; how they gain traction and who is likely to convert. From the book, this article, and stories I have heard about conversion, it would seem that people do not convert because they are convinced of the veracity of the proposed claims but because they have need to establish a new identity. I recommend that you all read the book so that you can gain an understanding of how people come to believe.