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November 02 2007 By virtueonline Scientists Acknowledge AIDS Crisis is Distorted and Overblown - Part I

The controversy stems from a fundamental disagreement over almost every issue regarding AIDS transmission, prevalence, and prevention. While the United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and other international agencies insist that AIDS is a growing global epidemic that must be treated with massive condom distribution, sex education, and drug treatments, several high-profile scientists call the picture a "distortion".

November 01 2007 By virtueonline A Shocking "Confession" from Willow Creek Community Church

Oops.

Something just as momentous, in my opinion, just happened in the evangelical community. For most of a generation evangelicals have been romanced by the "seeker sensitive" movement spawned by Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago. The guru of this movement is Bill Hybels. He and others have been telling us for decades to throw out everything we have previously thought and been taught about church growth and replace it with a new paradigm, a new way to do ministry.

November 01 2007 By virtueonline What the New Atheists Don't See - Theodore Dalrymple

Sartre's wonderful outburst of disappointed rage suggests that it is not as easy as one might suppose to rid oneself of the notion of God. (Perhaps this is the time to declare that I am not myself a believer.) At the very least, Sartre's line implies that God's existence would solve some kind of problem-actually, a profound one: the transcendent purpose of human existence.

October 30 2007 By virtueonline Do it yourself Christianity

As a Presbyterian pastor, I'm often approached by people who are on a search for truth, and as I attempt to help them, I draw on my religious tradition, sacred Scriptures and theological training. Unfortunately, more and more people are taking their quest directly to the Internet, surfing for religious as well as political insights.

October 29 2007 By virtueonline A Liberal Episcopal Bishop's Dream Gains Ground - Lee Penn

In its charter, the URI describes itself as "a growing global community dedicated to promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, ending religiously motivated violence and creating cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings...The URI, in time, aspires to have the visibility and stature of the United Nations."

October 29 2007 By virtueonline Christianity Is No "Leap of Faith"

A group of evangelical Christian pilgrims take part in a baptism ceremony in the Jordan River, near the Sea of Galilee October 1, 2007. Some 600 Evangelical Christian pilgrims from Brazil attended a baptism ceremony at the Jordan River on Monday. REUTERS/Yonathan Weitzman (ISRAEL)

October 26 2007 By virtueonline Ann Coulter Wants Jews to Become Christian -- So What?

There is nothing in what Ann Coulter said to a Jewish interviewer on CNBC that indicates she hates Jews or wishes them ill, or does damage to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. And if none of those criteria is present, how can someone be labeled anti-Semitic?

October 26 2007 By virtueonline Love Isn't Enough: 5 Reasons Why Same-Sex Marriage Will Harm Children

Men and women bring diversity to parenting; each makes unique contributions to the rearing of children that can't be replicated by the other. Mothers and fathers simply are not interchangeable. Two women can both be good mothers, but neither can be a good father.

So here are five reasons why it's in the best interest of children to be raised by both a mother and a father:

October 26 2007 By virtueonline The God Delusion and Alister E McGrath

Richard Dawkins: I believe that the question of the existence of God or Gods, supernatural beings, is a scientific question, whereas other scientists will say it's nothing to do with science, science and religion occupy two quite separate majesteria and don't overlap. I think they do overlap, I think they both attempt to answer the same kinds of questions. The difference is that religion gets the answers wrong.

October 25 2007 By virtueonline Why Muslims Follow Jesus

In the eyes of those who long for Muslims to know Jesus as they do, the unprecedented trickles-and in a few cases, floods-of Muslims who have chosen to follow Christ in previously evangelistically arid lands undoubtedly constitute the "best of times." In the late 1960s, there was a major turning to Christ among the Javanese in Indonesia, following a conflict between Muslims and communists. We have seen similar movements in North Africa and South Asia, along with smaller ones elsewhere.

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