Month: September 2016

When Pope Francis launched the Holy Year of Mercy, he promised that Christians could gain a special indulgence during this year. That left a lot of present-day Roman Catholics, and even more Protestants and Evangelicals, scratching their heads and asking some hard questions: Is Roman Catholicism still dealing in indulgences? Didn’t we learn anything from…

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Dear Editor, Does anyone ever consider what it must feel like to live in an intolerant, prejudiced society that constantly denies your right to exist; to sit silently in company while all around you people are baying for your blood? Every voice, every politician, journalist and media outlet are loud and constant in their demands…

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“The Bible is the first text to represent victimisation from the standpoint of the victim, and it is this representation which is responsible, ultimately, for our own superior sensibility to violence,” according to the late French philosopher-anthropologist René Girard, observing with reference to some of the Bible’s more violent passages that, “it is for biblical…

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Dear Editor, It is now generally stated that Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Donald J Trump are among the least honest and least trusted persons in the US. Such is the skewed coverage of the Presidential Election by most of the media, particularly the detractors of Donald Trump, that the media in general will soon…

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