Thought for the day
“Death – we make too much of it. All religions do. Of course, I may alter my opinion”. (Winston Churchill)
Archive of posts filed under the Religion category.
Israel’s race problem
“Israel has a serious racism problem that is quickly building to a crisis. Just consider these three facts: — Since 2009, more than 43 churches, mosques, and monasteries have been torched or desecrated in Israel and the West Bank – without a single perpetrator indicted. — According to a survey, 70.2% of Israelis believe the …
Should God have a sex change?
Followers of important trends may have missed the debate within the Church of England on the question “Does God, the Almighty Creator of the Universe, have to be male?” A group of leading female clerics campaigned to change the language with which God is described in the Christian liturgy. Their idea was to refer to …
10 year old denied abortion
A while ago a ten-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by her stepfather, was denied an abortion in Asunción, Paraguay. The child’s pregnancy was discovered at 21 weeks, when she was taken to hospital suffering from a stomach ache. Her mother demanded an abortion for her child, but the authorities refused because the procedure is …
What the Pope said
“Marriage ……..is a union possessing all the traits of a good friendship: concern for the good of the other, reciprocity, intimacy, warmth, stability and the resemblance born of a shared life”. (Pope Francis) Beautifully said. But the Pope is still not powerful or influential enough to overturn artificial birth control (supported de facto by most …