Breeding Contempt or Converts?
There is a video clip doing the e-mail rounds now which shows the changing demographics of our world. The population of Muslims is rapidly rising not because people are converting to Islam but because Muslim women are breeding at a faster rate than non-Muslim women (approximately 6 to 1). Even if Christian leaders became radical and decided to reword Jesus’ Great commission to read “while you are going, make babies in all nations…” Christianity would…
The Founding Witness of Jehovah Flounders
The Jehovah’s Witnesses deserve commendation for the zeal with which they go about their business. They are in a pitiable position though with reference to their doctrinal beliefs and their founder’s bogus claims for himself and his views on the Bible.
The very colourful and even bombastic pioneer of the group now called Jehovah’s Witnesses, was Charles Taze Russell. Russell, while only eighteen years old organized a Bible class in Pittsburgh in 1870 and in…
A Popular Misconception About Christianity
It is a dismissive comment that one hears ever so often even from people who ought to know better “More people have been killed in the name of God and religion than any other cause. I can’t be bothered with Christianity.”
Apart from the sloppiness of thought involved in this quotation—there is no link established between the tenets of Christianity and the alleged killings “in the name of God”— the allegation of religion and God…
Revelations on Ras Tafari by Rev. Clinton Chisholm
In this concise analysis of the Ras Tafari movement’s most foundational beliefs, Clinton Chisholm provides shocking perspectives on the origins of the movement, the misconceptions concerning Emperor Haile Selassie’s names and titles and alleged connections with King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He highlights the mistaken belief that modern Ethiopia is mentioned in the Bible and points out some weaknesses in the Kebra Nagast. Drawing on his training in the biblical languages, the former…
Misconceptions About Christianity Revisited
A few persons responded to my letter in the Jamaica Gleaner (May 22, 2010, see A Popular Misconception About Christianity) about killings in history by raising the issue of the God-commanded ‘slaughters in the Old Testament’ like the command to wipe out the nations of Canaan in Deuteronomy 7.1-5 and 20.15-18.…