Month: July 2009

The Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America

Apologetics Index Blog, Mormonism
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The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has published a report titled, "A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S."

The report, using data from its own 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, is of interest to anyone researching religions, religion trends, and the Mormon Church in particular.

But we do take issue with the fact that the report lumps the Mormon Church in with what Pew refers to as "other Christian traditions."
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Ai’s Apologetics Roundup

Ai's Apologetics Roundup
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Ai's Apologetics Roundup is a compendium of blurbs and links to, for the most part, apologetics- and countercult related articles, news items and other research resources.

In this issue: JP Moreland on Apologetics; Douglas Groothuis: Does God Exist?; and Shane Rosenthal on challenges to the 21st Century Church: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, Narcissism & Gnosticism

Jackie Alnor reports on The Church in the Marketplace, and Anthea Butler addresses Prosperity, Spiritual Warfare, and the "On-Demand" God.

Also: a scary cult of Christianity known as The Family or The Fellowship, and a look at some apologetics-related books.
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Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism
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Zoroastrianism predates Christianity and Islam, and many historians say it influenced those faiths and cross-fertilized Judaism as well, with its doctrines of one God, a dualistic universe of good and evil and a final day of judgment.
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