There is no getting away from it. The Bible says in Ex. 3:22 that the holy God told Moses to instruct the Israelites “Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.” (New International Version, NIV). This command is repeated in Ex. 11:2-3 and 12:35-36.…

If the Bible and Jesus are so holy and wise how is it that both are so complicit with slavery? What defense or explanation can defenders of Christianity offer to intelligent modern critics?
Well for starters we need to remember that slavery in the Old Testament and through the time of Jesus, though cruel, was not like the slavery we in the modern world are accustomed to reading about.
Slavery in the ancient world was…

Christians and critics of Christianity alike have problems with some things in the Bible because they are ignorant of how to read the Bible properly.
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.…

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 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…