“For me, Islam is a religion of peace,” Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala says in an NBC News story about the 21 Christians recently beheaded by ISIS in Egypt. Meanwhile, the White House inches closer to declaring war on ISIS. But there’s a problem no one seems to want to talk about: ISIS is only […]
Moderate Muslims Are Closer to Jesus than to Muhammad
I have an ex-Muslim friend who must remain anonymous because of death threats he has received (he lives in my hometown of Lansing). My friend was born in Iran and was a Muslim for 23 years. He left Islam and became a follower of Jesus after seeing two things: 1. The Qur’an is full of […]
Richard Dawkins: God commanding Wars, Genocides, Infant Killing???
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” – Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion […]
Aren’t the killing commands in the Bible the same as the ones in the Qur’an?
(Post renamed from “Aren’t Muslim Radicals & Christian Radicals who commit violence the same?”) What is the difference between Islamic radicals such as ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, etc. and Christians who bomb abortion clinics, the Westboro Baptist Church people who hold up “God Hates Fags” signs, and the litany of Christians throughout history who […]