Land: Christians must battle barbarism
By Richard Land
NEW ORLEANS (BP and local reports) — Civilization stands at a fork in the road and will either ascend to greater heights or tumble into barbarism unless Christians reassert the value of all human life and absolute moral truth, Richard Land told a Founder’s Day audience October 6 at New Orleans Seminary.
Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, said the future of civilization turns on two fundamental questions: Is moral truth real and knowable or is it merely a preference? A question of human value follows: Is mankind of value because of the essence of mankind, or only for what mankind can do?
These questions are at the heart of policy debates over abortion, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and health care reform, said Land, who is scheduled to speak October 26 at …
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By Jimmy Porter
Front page… Clarion Ledger, June 9, 2005 —“Judge denies Killen trial delay.” Edgar Ray Killen is scheduled to go on trial for the June 21, 1964 slayings of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. Once again, Mississippi race relations are in the national spotlight.
I graduated from Philadelphia High School in 1963 and pastored churches in Neshoba County from 1963 to 1970. I watched federal marshals and others search fields and remote places for the bodies of the three slain civil rights workers. I, along with others, felt the tension and sensed the fear that had a strangle hold on the majority of the people. As with most, I was in total shock that such hatred could exist in our town.
In recent months I have been asked often, “How do you feel about the trial?” “Should it be happening?” “What good will it do …
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