Author: Owen Toomey

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By Owen Toomey– Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia and a skeptic for over 35 years with a PhD in Philosophy, shocked many by becoming a Christian in his 50s. “I was dragged kicking and screaming into faith” by delving into research about evil in the world and then delving seriously into self-guided, rigorous Bible study, Sanger says. He was initially reluctant to tell the world of his newfound faith until he studied more. Now he is ready. Raised in a Lutheran household, little Larry attended church regularly until about age 12. Even then, he questioned Christianity but was often told…

By Owen Toomey – An unrelenting series of militant attacks against Christians in Nigeria qualifies as a genocide, but the West isn’t interested, partly because the previous U.S. administration bought the propaganda that the conflicts are not religiously motivated but herdsmen vying for land with farmers. “It is a religious cleansing targeted at Christians,” says Masara Kim, a reporter for Truth Nigeria. “What is going on in Nigeria is a genocide. It has been going on for several decades and world is not paying attention.” In April of this year, more than 200 Christians were killed, says Kim, who has…

By Owen Toomey– Michael Houts ultimately became a NASA engineer, so he prided himself on being scientific. But when he asked biology professors some basic questions (Where did life come from? Do mutations create better things? How does non-living matter come alive?), he got the same answers as his 9th grade teacher. “That’s really weird, I’m just asking these very basic questions,” he says. “That’s when it started to click for him: “This is not science. This is not engineering. This is just two different religions.” Houts called it quits on atheism. He realized you needed as much faith (or…

By Sean Toomey – As a young man in Turkey, he was a committed radical Muslim. But when he became disillusioned with Islam, Ridvan Aydemir became an atheist and a critic of his former religion. Living in the United States, under the moniker “Apostate Prophet,” he sniped at his former religion on a YouTube channel and debated the foremost promoters of Islam, who vowed that if sharia ever came to America, they would carry out on him the Koran’s mandate to kill apostates. AP, for short, thumbed his nose at them. “For the last 10 years I only pursued facts,…

By Sean Toomey – As Muslim in England bashed his head with baseball bats, Shokit Ali did nothing to defend himself. They were punishing him for leaving Islam. Jesus told him to NOT fight back: “Don’t touch them, for I am with you.” Shokit was left for dead. When he woke up in the hospital, doctors told him he would never walk. Jesus had other ideas. The miracle came when he walked to the bathroom unassisted. “They checked me and came back scratching their heads. This is unbelievable, they said. There’s no trace, no sign of trauma. You can go…

By Owen Toomey– Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali says Muslims are introducing sharia law in the United Kingdom “by stealth.” There are 85 unofficial Sharia courts settling matters among Muslims such as marriage, custody and inheritance. These courts, acknowledged by the UK government, are actually subverting law, rights, equality, British values and culture, Ayaan says. They grant women half value as a man in terms of testimony and adjudicate in favor of men, she adds. At the same time, Muslims in the UK are demanding places of prayer be opened up in schools and hospitals to accommodate the 5 daily…

By Owen Toomey – After Chaplain Rusty Trubey preached against homosexuality in June, he was relieved of duties for hate speech. But what about the Constitution’s protection of freedom of religion and freedom of speech? “It’s scary to think that in America, a chaplain could be removed, investigated and censored for preaching out of the Bible during a chapel service,” said the Army Reserve chaplain. “Veterans come to Protestant Chapel service to hear something that they won’t hear from their therapist, the actual good news. This is the message that I feel called and led to be faithful to preach…