Pomotheo bloggers would like to wish all our American blog readers a happy Fourth of July. Hope you actually got the day off! Many more exciting new bloggers and topics to come this year, stay tuned!
-Ro
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The far far right-wing in America is a powerful powerful lobby with money and strings. Unfortunately their attempts to be taken seriously by normal people sometimes backfires. 'All things to all people by all means,' didn't really work out when a news agency auto replaced all terms 'gay' with homosexual. Sucks if your last name is 'Gay'.
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To all our Canadian readers and authors we want to wish you a Happy Canada. Keep it real Canada! (Which is where we're from FYI.)
- Ro
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Pomotheo.com welcomes our first guest blogger Trent. He is going to engage in the atheist (and in this case Christian) dialogue about the existence of God. (At least I think that would be the starting question....)
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I am an atheist. I do not believe in Apollo or Amon-Ra or Allah. I do not believe in Baal or Baldur or Bacchus. Very briefly, I am going to explain why not.
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A blog war has began. By blog I mean blog, by war I mean polite but sometimes terse dialogue. A fellow blogger Trent is going to post up some thoughts regarding the new atheism position. Whether Trent considers himself a 'new atheist' as opposed to an 'old one' (whatever that might be) is unknown to me, perhaps he'll shed some light. In the mean time the blog will basically work like this: Trent will post his thoughts here at Pomotheo.com and we'll engage him here. Hopefully this will be the first of many installments of quality web dialogue on some interesting issues. Keep ya posted.
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When Holy Scripture peaks of God, it does not permit us to let our attention or thoughts wander at random.... When Holy Scripture speaks of God, it concentrates our attention and thoughts upon one single point and what is to be known at that point.... If we ask further concerning the one point upon which, according to Scripture, our attention and thoughts should and must be concentrated, then frmo first to last the Bible direcfts us to the name of Jesus Christ.
- Church Dogmatics : Karl Barth (pronounced Bart).
Just a quote from some of the reading I'm doing lately.
Technorati Tags: barth, dogmatics karl barth
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Said the Pharisee to the other Pharisee. Actually it was probably more, 'oi moy'. Regardless, another book selling ploy has emerged from Steve Hughes, author of 'Oh Shit! It's Jesus'. THeOOZE has a brief article about it, but what I like is the comments going on at the bottom.
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You've heard it from us a few times already, Left Behind is perhaps one of the biggest theological cancers ever to propagate from fundamentalist Christianity. The fact dispensationalism (rapture theology) is affirmed as foundational doctrine for many evangelicals only makes the problem worse. Why? Because of basic exegesis and scholarship yields alternate interpretations than the single (Tim Lahaye would argue) verse perscribing rapture.
But don't take our word, here's a quick article I stumbbled one written by heavyweight theologian NT Wright (who blasts poor Tim out of the water on anything Bible IMO).
Nt Wright on the rapture (1 Thess).
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THis just in, Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as world religion of choice. The thing is, to the vatican, they are the only true church, therefore to them Islam is #1 religion PERIOD! The Vatican's own arrogance gives Islam extra credence. Although CHRISTIANITY (which the Vatican does not recognize, only Roman Catholicism) remains the #1 religion in the world, to the folks VA all is at a lost cause Catholics don't have enough babies.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080330/islam_rcs_080330/20080330?hub=TopStories
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No, not Jenkins from the much maligned 'Left Behind' series, but Philip Jenkins author of, "The New Faces of Christianity". Here is one that caught my attention bringing a smile to my face (just cause I thought it was funny)....
In the US and Europe, the term [fundamentalism] usually suggests a bull-headed obstinacy in the face of scientific facts, a tendency outwards repression, especially directed against women or the sexually unorthodox. If that is in fact the future of Christianity, then it is not just theological liberals who have cause for concern, since the new face of Christianity's would look disturbingly like the worst stereotypes of radical Islam.
This is the part where fundamentalists out there in blogosphere call Jenkins a heretic and post back comments how their interpretation of Scripture is the only trusthworthy interpretation and all others should go to hell 
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