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Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. Illustrates Jesus' description of himself "I am the Good Shepherd" (from the Gospel of John, chapter 10, verse 11). This version of the image shows the detail of his face. The memorial window is also captioned: "To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of William Wright. Died 6th November, 1932. Aged 70 Yrs." (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One of the most popular arguments for the existence of God is the moral argument.  It states that God alone makes sense of objective moral values , and since objective moral values exist, then God exists.  A large number of people today, including atheists and agnostics, believe in objective moral values.  However, they do not agree with the Christian answer to provide a basis for those values. Sometimes looking at what can be considered the Christian answer, I don’t agree with it either. For instan...

English: A child's birthday celebration (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) This is a difficult issue to answer because we can't address all circumstances in which homosexual people could or could not be invited to family events. So, all I can do is speak in generalities and express my opinion. Let's take a look at different scenarios. Let's say we have a family member who is an atheist and you want to invite him or her over for a birthday party . Does it mean that by doing this you are approving of the person's atheism ? It would not. But then what about inviting a couple who are not married, male and female, to your home for dinner? They stay late, maybe there's a huge snowstorm; and they have to spend the night. Though you don't have the right to tell them what they can and can't do outside of your home, you do have the right to tell them what happens in your home. So, it would be appropriate to say that they are welcome to stay but that you would ...

-  Last week’s ruling  of the High Court in London banning pro-family Christian couples from fostering children has even self-described “gay” atheists concerned.  The justices ruled that it was appropriate to ban a Christian couple from fostering children since they refused to present homosexual sex as positive.  David Starkey , a renowned historian and UK media personality, was discussing the ruling  on BBC television  yesterday. Starkey said: “I am gay and I am atheist but I have profound doubts about this case. It seems to me that what we are doing is producing a tyrannous new morality that is every bit as oppressive as the old.” Starkey described what he believes was harassment from police that he experienced while growing up as a homosexual.  He said, however, that, “I am very, very concerned that a new sort of liberal morality is coming in, which as I said, is as intolerant, is as oppressive, is as intrusive into family life.” Starkey a...

-  Last week’s ruling  of the High Court in London banning pro-family Christian couples from fostering children has even self-described “gay” atheists concerned.  The justices ruled that it was appropriate to ban a Christian couple from fostering children since they refused to present homosexual sex as positive.  David Starkey a renowned historian and UK media personality was discussing the ruling  on BBC television  yesterday. Starkey said: “I am gay and I am atheist but I have profound doubts about this case. It seems to me that what we are doing is producing a tyrannous new morality that is every bit as oppressive as the old.” Starkey described growing up being homosexual with what he believes was harassment from police.  He said however that, “I am very, very concerned that a new sort of liberal morality is coming in, which as I said, is as intolerant, is as oppressive, is as intrusive into family life.” Starkey also raised the cas...