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Does God punish people through natural disasters?

October 05th, 201110:48 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

By some counts more than three hundred thousand people were killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake while an additional three hundred thousand were injured and one million rendered homeless. The scale of human suffering is truly unimaginable. And then, even as people were still struggling for their next breath while buried in ten tonnes of concrete, a...
Is it moral to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s Disease?

September 17th, 201108:32 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

If you would have told me yesterday that I would find myself in sympathy with a controversial ethical position taken by Pat Robertson I wouldn't have believed you. But here we are. Christian Post blogger Olabode Ososami's article "Divorce and Pat Robertson's Alzheimer's Gaffe" has changed all that. In an interesting article Ososami points out that ...
How dare religious zealots blame Haiti for its misery

January 18th, 201011:58 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

I took upon myself a most modest task. Critique the monstrous claim of Pat Robertson that the terrible earthquake that has decimated Haiti was a result of God's providential judgment on the nation. Apparently Robertson has more support among conservative Christians than I had wanted to believe. Four of the respondents in the thread came out actuall...
Is God behind the earthquake in Haiti?

January 14th, 201010:50 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

I will not soon forget the image on the news last night. Arms desperately waving for help from between huge chunks of concrete. I thought with a shudder about the people inside, trapped, covered by several tons of rubble. How many would be saved, and how many more would die? Then as the world stood on in shocked horror, along came Pat Robertson an...
Why is it so hard to deconvert a "faith-head"?

September 02nd, 200912:26 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

Richard Dawkins has been accused of being a fundamentalist. He takes issue with the charge: "No, please, it is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will." So Dawkins is not a fundamentalist because he remains open minded. Pardon me for being skeptical, but does anybody really believe that it is a...