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The Roman Catholic Church also is in the same quandary, and has been for many centuries. The story goes that Saint Thomas Aquinas visited the Vatican and was given the grand tour. Near the end, the pope turned to him and said, "No longer can we say, silver and gold have I none (cf. Acts 3:6) and Tho...

Curiously, I attended Columbia University in New York City and when I read the title to this thread I thought that it probably referred to my alma mater and not to Colombia, the country (note the difference in spelling). Columbia University is in the midst of Harlem in Manhattan which is hardly cons...

Rule #2 Bury your head in the sand and pray that the storm will subside.

I have the blessed position of being blissfully ignorant of these individuals, except for Trump and atheists in general. I have discovered that it is quite impossible to hate a person you have never even heard of. In fact, although I am not overly fond of Mr. Trump, I don't hate him. In fact, I can'...

I clearly remember the day that the two Mormon missionaries came to my house and engaged me in a discussion of the (Mormon) Gospel. I was quite unfamiliar with LDS theology. When they came to the aspect of "free agency" I was quite perplexed. I asked them if they believed that God is a very old man ...

Mr. Smith was hardly the first, nor the last, individual in the early nineteenth century to focus on the imminent return of Jesus Christ. With the Napoleonic Wars there was an intense focus on the Second Coming and the AntiChrist (widely believed to be Napoleon Bonaparte). Other contemporaneous grou...