Christianity's Triumph

By Alan Caruba, BQI Contributor

“By far the most important event in the entire rise of Christianity was the meeting in Jerusalem in around the year 50, when Paul was granted the authority to convert Gentiles without them also becoming observant Jews.”

So wrote Rodney Stark, the Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and co-director of the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. His most recent book is “The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World’s Largest Religion” ($27.99, HarperCollins).

Christ-mas, Mr. President: An Open Letter to President Obama

BQI Editor’s Note

To my family and friends who, in 2008 refused to heed my warnings, now with over three years of Obama actions in place, I hope that you will reconsider your support for the man who, not only lied and deceived so many into thinking that he was a Christian and follower of Jesus Christ, but who also lied about his true intentions for how he would govern as President.

Below is a heartfelt letter from Pastor Michael Youssef to President Obama on his anti Christian Administration.

  

Dear Mr. Obama,

From the time you declared your candidacy for president of the United States and announced under your breath that you are a Christian, many true, Bible-believing Christians immediately had doubts about your muffled profession of faith. After all, for 20 years you drank deeply from the well of Rev. Jeremiah Wright — who, in spite of the clerical garb he wears, preaches a Universalist gospel. It is not the true gospel that Jesus proclaimed, which clearly states that He and He alone is the only way to heaven and the Father. That claim was for all people of the earth.

IS CHRISTIANITY UNDER ATTACK?

CUA Editor’s Note

It seems only natural that we have as one of our inaugural articles a discussion on whether Christianity is actually under attack. While the answer to the question seems rather apparent, given the wealth of facts even worldwide, it does help to have a succinct analysis and discussion on the issue. We believe that the following article provides such an analysis.

  

By Leonard Hitchcock

Why would someone insist that an act of petty vandalism involving a nativity scene was actually a hate crime against Christians, even though the police found no evidence that that was the case?  Why would local citizens assert that an effort to discontinue prayer at meetings of the city council is aimed at depriving them of their freedom of worship?  Why do so many people still grumble about the loss of prayer in schools, and express irritation at the mention of “multiculturalism?”  The explanation, I think, is that those on the religious right are persuaded that nonbelievers are bent upon destroying, or at least marginalizing, Christianity.  That narrative is so compelling and abhorrent to them that they respond to even minimally relevant incidents with exaggerated fear, anger and indignation.

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