October, 2010 - Stone The Preacher

Atheists, Agnostics Smarter About Religion? Take the Quiz

Oct 8, 2010Steve Sanchez24 CommentsNews

Phew! I just took this survey from The Pew forum on Religion and Public Life and scored 100%, thankfully. It’s interesting to note that I scored better than 99% of the public. (It’s a very simple 15 question test, really.)

How well do you think you’ll do? According to the article below atheists and agnostics did pretty well, outperforming Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Take the survey by clicking here before you read the article (it gives away some answers), then write in the comments how well you did.

A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Read the rest by clicking here.

***IN OTHER NEWS…

Fourth Grader Barred from Recess Bible Reading

A five-year struggle for one Tennessee student’s religious liberties entered a new legal phase on Tuesday.

In 2005, the then-10-year-old Karns Elementary student and a few classmates read and discussed their Bibles during a recess period. When an unnamed parent complained, the principal ordered the student-led study to be stopped.

Salvation Through Animation: Are you a Good Person?

Oct 7, 2010Steve Sanchez41 CommentsE-vangie VIDEO!

Even though this has been out for awhile, it’s still a great reminder. (See it with Spanish sub-titles by clicking here.)

Atheist Tuesday: They Came from…Beyond!!!

Oct 5, 2010Steve Sanchez117 CommentsAtheist Tuesday

For almost a year now at this blog atheists and other militant unbelievers have been posting here. For the most part, I allow their comments with very little editing because they demonstrate to the believer the true sad state of an unredeemed mind. Their objections are pointed, at times sarcastic, a little bit brutal, and

Sudden Death: Feed Mixer

Oct 4, 2010Steve Sanchez13 CommentsSUDDEN DEATH!

A 32-year-old man was making repairs to a feed mixer at a hog production plant in the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk when he became trapped in the machine, RCMP said. The man died at the scene. “Yes, the guy just didn’t push the emergency button and went into the mixer and I guess the

New Classes: What’s Your E-vangie Tale? # 41

Oct 4, 2010Steve Sanchez18 CommentsWhat's Your E-vangie Tale?

Charles Finney (1792-1875) wrote: “Make it an object of constant study, and of daily reflection and prayer, to learn how to deal with sinners so as to promote their conversion. It is the great business on earth of every Christian, to save souls.

“People often complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If people made it no more a matter of attention and thought to qualify themselves for their worldly business, than they do to save souls, how do you think they would succeed? Now, if you are thus neglecting the main business of life, what are you living for? If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may most successfully act in building up the Kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.”
—From his sermon “To Win Souls Requires Wisdom”

Here are the last two evangelism classes of the year, one adult, one children. Again I ask the question: Who will persevere to the end given the norm of a 50% drop-out rate?

Write your evangelistic stories and put them in the “comments.”

Every third week I’ll bring this post back to the top of the blog. Remember students, you get one bonus point for every three sentence adventure that you write about.