Forgetting the Sexually Abused Children: The Church’s Strategy It’s odd that anyone should be surprised at the current sexual child abuse scandal engulfing the Catholic Church. It should not be surprising because for anyone who knows the history of the Church,...
The Fallacy of the Belief that Israel is a Theocracy Some people believe that because the Israeli Declaration of Independence mentions the Prophets Israeli society and/or government must be theistic. Even though it’s true that the declaration does mention the...
Was Pope Pius XII a Saint? The German-born pope, Benedict XVI, is moving full steam ahead in the process of canonization of the germanophile war-time pope, Pius XII. Having declared Pius XII “venerable”, the Church is now moving forward with the process of...
Who Knew What, When?Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Defenders of the Church are fond of repeating the already debunked post-WWII myth that nobody knew of the atrocities back home, that the perpetrators were merely following orders, and that they feared for their...
Understanding the Muslim Worldview All possible evidence seem to point to the fact that Arab nations are indeed monolithic in pretty much everything, and have been that way for 1000 years. There is a glimpse of change among some of those countries’ cultural elite, as...
Us vs. Them. Again. For almost two thousand years Christianity taught the faithful that Christianity had superseded and replaced Judaism. It taught that God had abrogated his covenant with the Jewish people and had made a new one with the “New Israel”, the followers...
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