I noticed that may of you are American, but perhaps you have been paying attention to what is happening with your neighbors to the North and as impartial observers you can help me sort through the political b.s. I am having trouble locating the facts on our recent forced election? Which has not yet ...

**sorry correction to late 1990's, typo,I meant 1900's.

I have to do a presentation on Social Responsibility. It’s an ambiguous phrase that I don’t think many people are able to accurately define. So I wanted to pick the brain of booktalk members and see how they would define social responsibility. Any interesting wisdom or unique talking points or stor...

1. I completely agree there are those out there who would read the story of creation as utter irrefutable fact, but as you said it these are fairy tales, but if you spend time studying faith and where these beliefs come from you come across one irrefutable fact the Holy books of so many religions we...

"Those before them indeed plotted, but Allah struck at the foundation of their building, and then the roof fell down upon them, from above them, and the torment overtook them from directions they did not perceive." (Surat An-Nahl (The Bees):26) Does this mean the Koran is true and the bib...

Is it not fair to say that Ender is the middle in a power struggle between Good ( Valentine) and Evil ( Peter). He may be a tool but in the purest sense of the word. Ender was a "tool" or means to an end. If you take the concepts of good and evil even further Ender would be, or have the ca...

I still don't quite understand why atheists are always trying to belittle the religiously minded? Things should be taken with a grain of salt, sure there are zealots out there who push their beliefs with the enthusiasm of a drug dealer in a bad neighborhood but we are not all pushers unwilling to co...

Does she attend a Catholic or Christian School? It's rather unfortunate that the school wouldn't have put a bigger emphasis on what ritual she was participating in. But I am not one to say much since I had also missed the importance of the day even after attending a Catholic school my whole life.

Luke 21:10-11 (King James Version) 10 Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: 11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. Unfortunately I believe that ...

Don't you think some people need to feel that these disasters are part of some great cosmic plan that will reveal itself to us along with the answer to life, the universe, and everything? Without these outrages conclusions societies would crumble, religious factions would topple, and the supermarket...