Why dont these churches help hungry people right here in the US? This is the worst economy in a century but preachers talk people into sending their last few bucks to Africa so religious fanatics can play with African superstitions – instead of helping Americans right here at home.

Academia and the “modern” secular world has completely swept the importance of not only Luther and the Reformation to individual, but also that of early Christianity, which was a serious threat to the monarchies and “powers that be” of the time.

Sometimes I think as Christians, we’ve focused too much on puritanism, thus giving secular society ammunition (and false ammunition at that). So we shoulder some of the responsibility for today’s mainstream ignorance of what Christianity truly is. But Matthew Paris has just done a remarkable job at providing a better understanding.

Sometimes it’s the atheist who offers the best testimony!