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How to burn a Qur'an (and get CNN to report it)

September 07th, 201001:17 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

It is a tiny church of fifty members in Gainesville Florida, but the D___ W____ O_______ C_____ found a way to put itself on the map: threaten to burn copies of the Qur’an on September 11th in protest of the “evil of Islam”. But this story isn’t about the evil of this wackadoodle group, and it certainly isn’t about the “evil” of Islam...
Am I a Christian due to historical accident?

August 24th, 200908:43 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

The charge is a common one. You're a Christian because you were born and raised in North America. If you had been born in India you'd probably be a Hindu. If you had been born in a certain part of Africa, you'd probably be an animist. The conclusion is given by one of my readers, AnAtheist.Net, who charges: "You arbitrarily prefer a belief that is...
Do all Muslims go to hell?

May 29th, 200912:18 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

Many Christians answer with a ready "yes" and point to passages like John 14:6: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." But what does it mean to come to the Father through Christ? In order to explore this question, let's spend a moment contemplating the Rwandan genocide. In three months in 1994 ...

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