Archive for category: Religion

Great Movie

23 November, 2006 (15:11) | General, Religion | By: Thomas

 
Its Thanksgiving and I got a chance to catch up on my Netflix selection.
“Merry Christmas” is a 2005 French / German / British production about a real life occurrence during WW1.
It is the story of how it came to be that an entire section of the Western Front entered into a spontaneous truce [...]

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

16 December, 2005 (17:09) | Religion | By: Thomas

I just watched the video of The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Strange that horror movie can have such a hopeful under-tone. One of the reason why I was interested in seeing it is because our Bible teacher’s son was a subject matter expert on this movie. They even named the main character after him (last [...]

I don’t believe it until I see it

3 January, 2005 (20:05) | Religion | By: Thomas

The following is a repost of an article I originally published on my now defunkt Radio blog.
Warning – Religious content. May lead atheists to have second thoughts about the nature of our existence…
The following story discusses some key historical factors that I’ve learned in a presentation by Matt Lockhart, a UCLA grad student [...]

A joke for polite company

1 January, 2005 (18:39) | Religion | By: Thomas

A burglar is rifling through his victims living room when he hears a disembodied voice.. “Jesus is watching you..” – The burglar pauses, looks around but when he sees nobody he continues. Again the voice drifts across the darkened living room ” …Jesus is watching you…” The burglar turns quickly and realizes that across the [...]

Could God Sin?

1 January, 2005 (18:13) | General, Religion | By: Thomas

Why was Jesus in the desert for 40 days being tempted? Whats the purpose of that exercise? Here is an interesting point of view: He was being tempted because he could choose to commit a sin. Sounds reasonable? Free will and all that right? OK – but since Jesus was fully God doesn’t that mean [...]