THOSE AWFUL "XTIANS"

Neopagans, Occultists, and just about anyone who isn't a Christian blame Christians for everything short of a rainy day. Oh wait, I forgot global warming. Make that everything.

 While Neopagans and most garden variety occultists and "freethonkers"  profess religious "tolerance", the evidence doesn't add up. It's not uncommon to see the word "Christian" spelled "xtian", "xian", or "christian" on Wiccan, Neoapagan, and various occult webpages and newsgroups. Calling a Christian a "xtian" is really no different than calling a member of the Jewish faith a "kike", if you stop and think about it. One Satanist webpage once featured the topic "Why Do You hate Christians So Much?", to which were given various reasons by the posters, including one fellow who said Christians had invented slavery (!). They didn't event slavery, btw, Pagans did, read a history book. Whatever the reason for hating Christians, it isn't a good reason. Yes, there have been pedophiles who became ministers and priests just so they could be in close proximety to children.  But this is also true of teachers, camp counselors, pediatricians, nurses, people who own toy stores, comic book stores, video arcades, ice cream trucks, scout leaders, people who go to nudist colonies, social workers, juvenile justice workers, etc. etc.. Yet no one ever shakes a finger at memmebrs of these professions as all being "evil" with a blanket assumption the way the Neopagan/Occult followers do "xtians".
 
Because of the so-called  "Burning Times" (the facts of which are distorted. see "Burning Times" link under "Wicca" in the menu to the left), Christians are constanly villanized for 40,000 people that were killed over a 500 year period. And yet an estimated 20 million people were killed by the Chineese Communist government. Where's all the outrage against China? Or Russia? Or Germany? Or Cambodia? Could the rage of the "Burning Times" merely be just an excuse to hate Christians? Yes indeed!A lot of the hate against "xtians" probably steems from a.) personal expirences and b.) libido (admit it). The first one would have to be debunked on a person by person basis, which I can't do here. If some "xtian" mistreated you at some point in your life, I apologize on behalf of all us "xtians" for their actions. Keep in mind not everyone claiming to be a Christian is one, and even Jesus Christ himself said so.  The later reason isn't a valid reason. No one's forcing you to keep the 10 commandments if you're not a Christian. Christian codes of morality are really no more severe than other religions (Read the "Moral Compass" page)
 
Since we never run out of hearing and reading about all the awful things "xtians" do, I think I should take time here to remind people that there are actually some good "xtians" out there too. A lot of them, in fact. Here's a list in no particular order of some folks who are Christians. No, this isn't a list of every person who called themselves a Christian that ever lived, good or bad, nor is it intended to be. But since there is so much negativity about Christians out there, I think people need to be reminded Christians aren't the epitome of everything evil.
 
 
And now here's some of those "awful xtians"....
 
SCIENTISTS,EXPLORERS, THINKERS and INVENTORS
 
 
Sir Issac Newton Sir Issac Newton (1642-1727)Did more than have an apple fall  on his head, he made astounding discoveries about light, gravity, invented Calculus, and theorized that artifical satellites could be put into orbit. His 3 laws of motion are STILL used today! Yep, he was a Christian. Oh, and he even tried alchemy and the occult. It took him 20 years to realize it was a huge waste of time. When he finally realized it though, he quit and stuck with Christianity.  Maybe some of you could learn from him?

Craig Paterson - Philosopher and writer on bioethics

 Neils Bohr,  Atomic scientist,(Lutheran),

Louis Pasteur, the Germ Theory of Disease, (Catholic),

Galileo Galilei astronomer, (Catholic),

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier; revolutionary chemist (Catholic),

Johannes Kepler ;motion of the planets theory(Lutheran)

Michael Anderson shuttle pilot (Columbia) and astronaut devoted Christian who attended Grace Community Church,

Nicolaus Copernicus theory of the Heliocentric Universe Catholic (priest),

Michael Faraday;Classical Field Theory (Sandemanian),

Robert Spaemann - philosopher

Karl Stern - German Jewish convert, psychiatrist

René Girard - historian, literary critic and philosopher

Max Planck (1858-1947) Founder of Quantum Physics

Arthur Compton (1892–1962) Nobel Prize in Physics & deacon in the Baptist

 Church Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) Roman Catholic priest who first proposed the Big Bang theory

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) Russian Orthodox geneticist who criticized young Earth creationism in an essay, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution," and argued that science and faith did not conflict.

Dmitri Egorov (1869–1931)  Russian mathematician who made significant contributions to the broader areas of differential geometry. He was an Imiaslavie who defended religion during the Soviet era. In 1930 the Soviets arrested and imprisoned him as a "religious sectarian." He died of a hunger strike in protest.

Simon C. Morris (born 1951)  A British paleontologist who made his reputation through study of the Burgess Shale fossils. He was the co-winner of a Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal and also won a Lyell Medal. He is active in the Faraday Institute for study of science and religion and is also noted on discussions concerning the idea of theistic evolution. ,

Francis Collins (born 1950)  He is the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute. He has also written on religious matters in articles and in Faith and the Human Genome he states the importance to him of "the literal and historical Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, which is the cornerstone of what I believe." He wrote the book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

Pierre Duhem (1861–1916)  He worked on Thermodynamic potentials and wrote histories advocating that the Roman Catholic Church helped advance science.

Rick Husband Columbia Shuttle pilot and astronaut devoted Christian who attended Grace Community Church.

Aldert van der Ziel (1910-1991) He researched Flicker noise and has the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named an award for him. He also was a conservative Lutheran who wrote The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message.

Ian Barbour (born 1923) A physicist who wrote Christianity and the Scientists in 1960, and When Science Meets Religion ISBN 0-06-060381-X in 2000. For years he taught at Carleton College,  Michał Heller (born 1936)  He is a Catholic priest, a member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion.' He also is a mathematical physicist who has written articles on relativistic physics and Noncommutative geometry. 

Sir Robert Boyd (1922-2004) A pioneer in British space science who was Vice President of the Royal Astronomical Society. He lectured on faith being a founder of the "Research Scientists' Christian Fellowship" and an important member of its predecessor Christians in Science. He was connected to the University College London.

Arthur Peacocke (1924-2006) Anglican priest and biochemist, his ideas may have influenced Anglican and Lutheran views of evolution. Winner of the 2001 Templeton Prize. He was a Dean at Clare College, Cambridge.

 C. F. von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) German nuclear physicist who is the co-discoverer of the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula. Although he aided the Nazis in WWII, after the war he repented of the errors of his ways and bcame a Christian as well as a pacifist. His work  The Relevance of Science: Creation and Cosmogony concerned Christian and moral impacts of science. He headed the Max Planck Society from 1970 -1980.

Charles Hard Townes (born 1915) In 1964 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1966 he wrote The Convergence of Science and Religion.

Allan Sandage (born 1926) An astronomer of Jewish ancestry who converted to Christianity late in life. He wrote the article A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief and made discoveries concerning the Cigar Galaxy.

Charles Moss Duke, Jr. astronaut, Brigadier General, USAF, Ret. - Lunar module pilot of Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972. He is an active speaker and Christian lay witness and President of Duke Ministry For Christ.

That Guy That Invented Post-It® Notes
 
Art Fry Art Fry, inventor of Post-it® NotesCame up with the idea while trying to find a way to mark his Hymnal in church.  He says they were NOT an accident, as urban legend says, but he deliberatley set out to create them. You might be thinking "Big deal!", but what have you invented lately????
 
 
 




John Polkinghorne (b. 1930)  Anglican priest who wrote Science and the Trinity (2004) ISBN 0-300-10445-6. Winner of the 2002 Templeton Prize.

Ghillean Prance-(b.1937)  A noted botanist involved in the Eden Project Eric Priest (born 1943)  An authority on Solar Magnetohydrodynamics who won the George Ellery Hale Prize among others. He has spoken on Christianity and Science at the University of St Andrews and is a member of the Faraday Institute.

Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945)  Paleontologist who was a figure in the "dinosaur Renaissance" and known for the theory some dinosaurs were Warm-blooded. He is also a Pentecostal preacher who advocates theistic evolution and has written on religion!

John T. Houghton -  co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and won a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society & former Vice President of Christians in Science.

 Christopher Isham - Theoretical physicist who developed HPO formalism. He teaches at Imperial College London. In addition to being a physicist, he is a philosopher and theologian.

Stanley Jaki (b.1924)  Benedictine who won a Templeton Prize and advocates the idea modern science could only have arisen in a Christian society.

Asa Gray (1810-1888)  His Gray's Manual remains a pivotal work in botany. His Darwiniana has sections titled "Natural selection not inconsistent with Natural theology", "Evolution and theology", and "Evolutionary teleology." The preface indicates his adherence to the Nicene Creed in concerning these religious issues.

Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825—1888)  An Italian mathematician most linked to Turin. He is known for "Faà di Bruno's formula".
 
 
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) The original Mr. Peanut! Invented hundreds of uses for the peanut, and thus helped impoverished cotton farmers out of poverty after the civil war. Carver was a religious Christian man who said he could not have created his many inventions had it not been inspiration from God (the Judeo-Christian God).

James Clerk Maxwell; Electromagnetic Field (Presbyterian),

Erwin Schrodinger;wave mechanics theory (Catholic),

Andreas Vesalius new anatomy  (Catholic),

Tycho Brahe Astronomer,(Lutheran),

 Max Born quantum mechanics (Jewish Lutheran),

Enrico Fermi;atomic physics(Catholic)

Marcello Malpighi;microscopic anatomy (Catholic),

Christiaan Huygens;the Wave Theory of Light (Calvinist),

Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss)  Mathematical Genius (Lutheran),

Ken Olson - fossil hunter for Museum of the Rockies, discoverer of T-Rex skull #008 - retired Lutheran Pastor

Dr. Paul Mislevy - Agricultural scientist for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Science, author of many papers and articles on agriculture, PhD in Agronomy from the University of Pennsylvania (Roman Catholic)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek ,invented the microscope (Dutch Reformed),

Theodosius Dobzhansky the Modern Synthesis (Russian Orthodox),

John Dalton;the Theory of the Atom (Quaker),

Alexander Fleming Penicillin (Catholic) Josef Pieper, German Thomist
philosopher Trofim Lysenko , Genetics (Russian Orthodox)    

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) - important chemist and physicist

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - European explorer who reached Americas in 1492

 Kenneth H. Cooper - "father of aerobics"

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Buzz Aldrin -astronaut, Particpated in the first religious act performed on the moon (Apollo 11) which was the Christian celebration of communion.

Niel Armstrong -astronaut,

James Benson Irwin (1930-1991) , astronaut- Apollo 15, July, 1971 United States Air Force Colonel. He was the founding president of the High Flight Foundation, a Christian inter-denominational evangelical ministry based in Colorado Springs, and also an Ark hunter.

 James Clerk Maxwell - influential mathematician and physicist,

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) inventer of Morse Code,

Hugh Ross - physicist,

Francis Schaeffer - theologian and thinker (1912-1984),

Orville and Wilbur Wright  - invented the airplane Marshall McLuhan - Canadian philosopher and communications theorist
 
 
SO WILL YOU HATERS OF CHRISTIANITY PLEASE STOP SAYING WE ARE ALL IGNORANT HATERS OF SCIENCE????
 

 ARTISTS, MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS
Sixpence None The Richer
 
Christians This alternative rock band that hails from the U.K. are all Christians. They even dedicated their first album to God (and says so in the liner notes). Their song titled Breathe Your Name is about God.  Yes, Christians can be "kewl".

 

 Billy Preston (1946-2006) Known as "The Brown Beatle". Grammy winning musician, song writer, performer, & session man who's career spanned five decades. He performed with everyone from Elton John to the Red Hot Chilli Pepers. By age ten he was playing keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Jackson, and two years later, in 1958, he was featured in Hollywood's film bio of W.C. Handy. He was the only musician to have ever worked with both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. He worked with the Beatles on the Let It Be album and movie.  Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn- Known as "the painter of the soul " Wolgang Amadeus Motzart- legendary Austrian composer.

 
Christian TINY TIM The last of the Vaudevillians. He made a big splash in the 1960's with his mondo eukalele act. Best known for his rendititon of Tiptoe Through The Tulips. His marriage to Miss Vicky on The Tonight Show was the highest rated show in history for decades. Even though Anton LaVey thought Tiny Tim's style of music was "Satanic", in reality Tiny Tim was a Christian who read his Bible everyday, and was actually quite conservative in many ways! He publicly professed his Christian faith many times, including on T.V. interviews.


Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) - composer and writer ;"Star Spangled Banner"

Kerry Livgren - formerly with the band "Kansas", contemporary Christian musician,

Christopher Parkening - classical guitarist,

 John Tesh - popular jazz musician and TV personality.

Rev. Thomas Andrew Dorsey (1899-1993)"the father of gospel music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom.  

Aretha Franklin "The Queen of Soul", The daughter of Rev. C. L. Franklin, a Detroit gospel singer and clergyman, Aretha began performing on the Midwest gospel music circuit as a youngster and made her first recording when she was 14 years old.By the end of the 1960s Franklin was at her peak as an artist -- with hits including Otis Redding's "Respect", as well as "Chain of Fools" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" -- and had become an African-American icon during the era's turbulent battles over civil rights for minorities and women. In 1987 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Bob Dylan 60's music icon;   



Alice Cooper - 70's Rock Music legend and golf addict. After 15 years of drugs and booze, Mr. Cooper wised up and gave his life back over to Jesus. Cooper's embrace of Christianity was more a return to faith than a coming to faith. "I Christianwas pretty much convinced all my life that there was just one God and there was Jesus Christ and there was the Devil," he said in a KNAC.com interview. Oh, and he was never really a Satanist. Deal with it. "You couldn't believe in God without believing in the Devil. I always tell bands that the most dangerous thing you can do is to believe in the concept of the Devil or the concept of God, because you're not giving them full credit. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart. If you believe that this is just mythology, you're a prime target because you know that's exactly what Satan wants: To be a myth. But he's not a myth, of this I'm totally convinced. More than anything in the world, I'm convinced of that."  -- Alice Cooper, one of those "aful xtians" .
 
Vanity - Former singer for Prince, and also had a solo career. Vanity says she experimented with both drugs and the occult, but gave them both up when she found Christ.

Smokey Robinson - soul singer, front man for The Miracles and solo career,

Stanford Olsen - opera tenor,

 Merle Haggard - Country Music Singer,

Johann Sebastian Bach "The Fifth Evangelist", ironically his Organ Fugue and Ticotta is used in scary movies,

Ray Stevens two time Grammy winner (The Streak, Mississippi Squirel
 Revival), owner of Curb records,

Mel Tillis, country music star,

Loretta Lynn, country music legend ("Coal Miner's Daughter")
 
Robert Hunter (a.k.a George Montalba, Georges Montalba) Hunter/Montalba was an organ virtuoso and Glendale, CA resident who recorded several Christianalbums of pipe organ music during 1957-1958. He later went on to work with George Burns and Carol Channing on broadway, in addition to working with Leopold Stokowski, Shirely Temple, Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Eddy, Judy Garland, Two Popes, and John & Jacquelyn Kennedy to name a few! His career spanned 60 years. A pretentious wife beating Satanist with a criminal record, who's name bears no mentioning here, later claimed to be Montalba. How pathetic! Hit Thing records has re-released Montalba's recording on CD with liner notes that will hopefull clear up the slander!
 

U2 Defined Alternative music. Probably the biggest rock band in the world. The Irish quartet have gone on record several times as being Christians.
Christians  
 
 
 
 




George Frideric Handel - Composer of  "The Messiah" and many other
 Church Hymns,

Randy Travis - Country Singer,

Air Supply - 80's Soft Rock band

Charlie Daniels ;Country Music Legend,

 Felix Mendelson; Classical music composer of many Christian songs
 including "Hark The Herald Angles Sing" (where does all this nonsense that classical music is somehow "Satanic" come from???) Jewish convert to Christianity.
 
 
Johnny Cash Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter  He sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a "commanding position in music history". Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century. The original "man in black", Johnny had a strong faith in Jesus Christ. As a young boy, Johnny had tapped his toes in schoolhouse revivals to the rhythm of Christianguitars, mandolins, and banjos. He'd sung "Shall We Gather at the River?" during baptisms at the "blue hole." He'd been converted at age 12. "A beautiful peace came over me that night. I felt brand new," he recalls. He felt a touch of heaven when he put his cheek against his dying brother Jack's lips and heard him whisper, "I'm going to a beautiful city… I can hear the angels singing." He had his ups and downs, and friend Kris Kristofferson once remarked he was "a walking contradiction". In a behind the scenes look at "The Johnny Cash Show", Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try". Cash quit using drugs in 1968. Recommitting to his Christian faith, he answered an "altar call" in Evangel Temple, a small church in the Nashville area, Cash chose this church over many larger celebrity churches in the Nashville area because he said that there he was treated like just another parishioner and not a celebrity. Perhaps "Amazing Grace," written by John Newton after the hard-drinking, profane slave trader found God, best describes the journey of Johnny Cash from the pit of despair to the pinnacle of glory. The record shows that he has more lives than ten cats. He wrecked every car he had for seven years, totaled two jeeps and a camper, turned over two tractors and a bulldozer, sank two boats in separate accidents on a lake, jumped from a truck just before it went over a 600-foot cliff in California, brawled and incurred permanent scars, and drove himself into a wild frenzy many times with drugs.Yet when the raging voices quieted, there was always the "still, small voice" whispering, I am your God. 1 love you. I am waiting."The hand of God," Johnny Cash once said, "was never off me." In all of his wanderings, Johnny could never escape the "hound of heaven," which pursued him from his childhood. He has inspired Musicians from  Reba MacIntyer to Nine Inch Nails . In addition to Gospel songs, Cash also recorded a reading of the Bible and appeared at Billy Graham crudases. "There is no person in the world whom we [Ruth and Billy] have more affection for than Johnny Cash," said Billy Graham. Youth for Christ International named him "Man of the Year" in 1979 for helping young people. He attended a Pentecostal church outside Nashville, & received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Gardner-Webb College, a Southern Baptist school in North Carolina.  Johnny Cash, one of those "awful xtians".
 
Dave Mustaine frontman for Megadeath, kicked cocaine and found Christ.
 
Brian "Head" Welch, guitarist formerly with Korn.

Randall Franks blue grass legend, designated the "Appalachian Ambassador of the Fiddle."

Moya "Máire" Brennan - recoding artist, lead singer of the Celtic group Clannad.

Mark Farner -singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, and later as a Contemporary Christian Musician. ;

Richie Furay-singer, songwriter, and guitarist who is best known for forming the 1960s band, Buffalo Springfield. He's now a minister;
 
  
CHRISTIANS INVOLVED IN SCIENCE FICTION
 

Christian Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000) best known for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars. He was one of the few cast members who believed that the film would be a box office hit and negotiated a deal for two percent of the gross, which made him very wealthy in later life. Guiness used to consult Tarot cards in one point in his life prior to that, until one day he decided the cards, with their  spades, cups, Heriophant, and such mocked the life of Jesus. He then burned the cards and later converted to Roman Catholicism ( from X-Rated, by Michael Munn, pg 93).


 
Ron Harper - Actor Planet of the Apes T.V. series, "Uncle Jack" on Land of the Lost, The Glass Cage

John Heidenry "The Counterpoint of View"; Dearly Beloved,

 andrew j. offutt; author of "For Value Received" and many others,

Joan Bernott "The Test-Tube Creature, Afterward",

David Kerr  "Epiphany for Aliens"; Firstprint  

Robert Picardo; TV and Film actor Star Trek Voyager, The Howling, Total Recall

Katherine Kurtz The Adept series; Deryni series; The Legends of Camber of Culdi series (Including Camber of Culdi, which won the Balrog award in 1992.); Knights of the Blood,

Mervyn Peake Born in China in 1911, the son of a Congregational missionary doctor. Gormenghast trilogy: Titus Groan; Gormenghast; Titus Alone.Also wrote poetry, and created works of art.

Anne Rice – American writer Interview With A Vampire After a long separation from her Christian faith during which she described her self as "atheist", she returned to the Church in 1998 and has pledged to use her talents to glorify God.
 
 ChristianRoger Delgado (Roman Catholic)British actor that played "The Master" on Dr. Who. His devilish looks got him frequently cast as a villain, and he appeared in many noted British action-adventure TV series of the 1960s, including The Avengers, The Champions, Danger Man, The Saint, The Power Game, Crossfire and Randall and Hopkirk . He also appeared alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in The Road to Hong Kong. Born in Whitechapel in the East end of London, he was rasied Roman Catholic and attended the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, a Roman Catholic secondary school in Holland Park. In an interview, Dr. Who cast member John (Dr. Who #3) Pertwee once recollected the irony of Delgado being cast as arch-villan "The Master" because he was in reality a good, moral, and polite man (which are traits of Christians).
 
Mike Nelson Riftrax, host and head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000,

Donna Farley,(Greek Orthodox) author Stories include: Astronomical Odds; Father Vadim's Angel; It Must Be Some Place; Light One Candle; The Passing of the Eclipse; Wizards; Orthodox-themed works include: Cold Hands, Warm Heart and the poem The Geography of Prayer,

Nick Mamatas [Greek Orthodox] Over 10 published short stories; his novel Northern Gothic (2002) nominated for the Stoker Award; collection: 3000 MPH (Prime Books, 2003); novel: Move Under Ground (Night Shade Books, 2004); Greek Orthodoxy plays a major role in his story "Time Of Day" (published in 2002 by Strange Horizons)

Pierre Boulle, French author of  Planet of the Apes and also other works such as The Bridge Over the River Kwai

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin  Orthodox Russian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist, whose famous anti-utopia "My" (1924, "We") prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), and inspired George Orwell's 1984 (1949).
 
ChristianRand and Robyn Miller Creators of the Myst CD-ROM game and associated books. (Pictured here is Rand as "Artus".)
 
       





Stephen R. Lawhead  Raised in a Conservative Protestant church; attended Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. Considered one of the most successful writers among the relatively few mainstream SF/F writers who are Evangelicals Avalon; The Celtic Crusades series; Byzantium; The Songs of Albion series; Pendragon Cycle series; Dream Thief; Empyrion series; Dragon King trilogy; Howard Had a Spaceship.

Randall Garrett  [Ordained]; Brain Twister; The Gandalara Cycle I; The Gandalara Cycle II; Return to Eddarta; The River Wall; The Search for Ka

 Alexandra E. Honigsberg  [In 1996 Honigsberg was a priest candidate in the Old Catholic Church at Union Theological Seminary. ] Awakening: A Symphony, Borne on a River of Tears (written with David M. Honigsberg, her husband who is a Rabbi); Death's Doorstep,

Jeff Duntemann  [Active member in Old Catholic movement] The Cunning Blood. Many of his s.f. stories have Catholic themes, incl. Guardian, which was on 1981 Hugo Awards ballot, as well as: Our Lady of the Endless Sky; Bathtub Mary; Drumlin Boiler. Other stories include: The Steel Sonnets; Inevitability Sphere; Cold Hands; Guardian; Ariel; Silicon Psalm; Marlowe; Borovsky's Hollow Woman; STORMY vs. the Tornadoes.

Bram Stoker author of Dracula; despite rumors, he was never a member of the occult farce known as The Golden Dawn and was in fact a Christian.

Ross Pavlac  Former Unitarian and agnostic who is now a Methodist,
Produced  Avenging Aardvark  fanzine. Major Sci-Fi convention organizer.

Kij Johnson  Star Trek, the Next Generation #38: Dragon's Honor; stories include "Canine Intervention", "Fox Magic", "Last Dance at Dante's", more.

Bill Myers [Myers received a degree in applied management business administration from Dallas Baptist University and is a Baptist himself] McGee and Me! series; Forbidden Doors series; Bloodhounds series; Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle series; Fire of Heaven,

 Jefferson Scott  Virtually Eliminated; Fatal Defect: A Genetic Thriller; Terminal Logic

Sigmund Brouwer (Baptist) young adult fiction, such as: Sports Mystery series; CyberQuest; The Ghost Rider; Winds of Light, Wings of Dawn; The Weeping Chamber; Blood Ties; Double Helix; Magnus,

Karel Capek;Celebrated Czech novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright. Famous for R.U.R., early s.f. story that coined the word "robot."

Connie Willis  Lutheran; Congregationalist  Doomsday Book (1992; also Locus Award 1993) [Ranked 12th on the ISFDB Top 100 Novels list.], and many other books; Gene Wolfe - several books including Book of the New Sun Tetralogy [Ranked 87th in the Internet Top 100 Survey, Cooke, Oct. 1999.], Wolfe was ranked 5th on the ISFDB Top 100 Authors list. ;

WRITERS AND POETS

Christian C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narina writer was a Christian! Not only that, he wrote some amazing books on theology too, as well as being a college professor! He became an athiest at an early age but eventually regained his faith when a friend convinced him Christianity wasn't history, Christianity was the thing that writes history.Well that was enough to convince Lewis, and the rest is history. DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY OF MERE CHRISTIANTY HERE!
 
John Henry Newman – Master of English prose (Apologia Pro Vita Sua), and poetry,( Lead, Kindly Light and The Dream of Gerontius) He became a Catholic priest and later a Cardinal

Charles Dickens A Christmas Carrol, A Tale of Two Cities, etc.

Joseph Pearce – English literary scholar and critic

Jonathan Swift  Gulliver's Travels,

Charles M. Schultz creator of the Peanuts comic strip.

Dame Edith Sitwell –English poet

Dr. Seuss  Fantasy-laden children books, incl. Daisy - Head Mayzie The Cat in the Hat; How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Horton Hears a Who!; If I Ran the Circus; Green Eggs and Ham; The Lorax; many more,

Henri Ghéon - French poet and critic

Ken McCullough  "Chuck Berry, Won't You Please Come Home"; "His Loneliness, The Winner"; "The Legend of Wick Higgins"; Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads; many poems, A. Parra (y Fegueredo)
"Totenbuch"; other poems and short stories,

Alexander Pope – famous English poet

G.K. Chesterton; author of The Man Who Knew Too Much, How I Found the Superman; The Shop Of Ghosts, - Enormous essayist, poet, writer

Alfred Noyes – English poet, best known for The Highwayman

Flann O'Brien - Irish comic writer,

Coventry Patmore - 19th century poet

Vicomte de Chateaubriand – The founder of Romanticism in French literature, he returned to the Catholic faith of his boyhood in the 1790s and wrote a famous apology for Christianity, "Génie du christianisme" ("The Genius of Christianity"), which contributed to a post-Revolutionary revival of Catholicism in France.

Charles Williams "All Hallows' Eve" Pellagrini and Cudahy; Descent into Hell; The Greater Trumps; Many Dimensions; The Place of the Lion; Shadows of Ecstasy; War in Heaven,

Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron (Newbery Medal Honor; Child's Study Association for America's Children's Books of the Year)and many other books.

John Bunyan - Pilgrim who made progress in prison,

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, which many credit to aiding in the end of slavery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian novelist of spiritual depth

George MacDonald - Fabled Victorian writer,

John Milton author of "Paradise Lost";

John Patrick Shanley – screenwriter and playwright,

Dame Muriel Spark – Scottish novelist,

Elena Maria Vidal – Historical novelist,

Evelyn Waugh – author and novelist

D.B. Wyndham-Lewis – English comic writer and biographer

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - French 19th century novelist and short story writer, who specialised in mysterious tales that examine hidden motivation and hinted evil bordering the supernatural influenced by his Catholic faith.

Paul Claudel-early 20th century poet and author

Heinrich Böll, German novelist,

Jože Snoj - Slovenian poet, was prohibited to publish his works during the Communist regime, St. John of the Cross – this great mystic, Carmelite priest and Doctor of the Church also wrote some of the most famous Christian poetry in any language.

Christopher Buckley – Political satirist who wrote Thank You for Smoking,

William Peter Blatty -- screenwriter and novelist. Best known for the novel The Exorcist and Oscar winning screenplay adapting same
 
Christian J.R.Tolkien Remember the friend I mentioned who told C.S. Lewis Christianity was cool? Oh yeah, it was Tolkien. So stop trying to find all those "secret clues" in Lord of The Rings to make your spells work. It's not in there.
Danielle Steele - best-selling author






Dorothy Sayers - Mystery writer and apologist, Dante Alighieri - Worldly creator of divine verse. Pope Benedict XV praised him in an encyclical, writing that of all Catholic literary geniuses "highest stands the name of Dante".

Geoffrey Chaucer - Medieval England's greatest storyteller, the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and author of The Canterbury Tales, he mocks corrupt clergy, but also presents an ideal priest who teaches sound Catholic doctrine in  The Parson's Tale

John Donne - Poet of God's love,

George Herbert - England's greatest religious poet,

John Milton - Puritan author of Paradise Lost,

Anne Bradstreet - considered to be "America's first poet",

Isaac Watts - Father of English hymnody,

Charles Wesley - Considered the greatest hymn writer of all time,

 Fanny Crosby - Prolific and blind hymn writer

Frederick Buechner; Pulitzer Prize winning author who was also a Presbyterian minister. Best known for A Long Day's Dying, Godric, Brendan, etc

T.S. Eliot - Modernist poet

George Kelly – Pulitzer Prize winning playwright

Jack Kerouac - Beat author of On the Road; experimented with Buddhism but later returned to Christianity

Dean Koontz - American popular novelist best known for moralistic thrillers

 Rosie Malek-Yonan - author of The Crimson Field

Francis A. Marzen –journalist

 Elisabeth Langgässer – (1899–1950) An influential German Catholic author who the Nazis deemed "too Jewish" Martin Mosebach, novelist, poet, playwright

Pope Pius II – In his younger days he had been a Poet laureate and had written an erotic novel called Eurialus and Lucretia. Later he wrote histories and epistles.

Thomas of Celano; poet and writer

Rumer Godden - author of children's classics The Doll's House, Miss Happiness and Miss Flower, An Episode of Sparrows, etc.

Christian William Shakespear No, he wasn't a Wiccan because he wrote MacBeth (admit it, you've heard that theory touted as "fact").  Nope, the world's greatest playright was a Christian (by the way, if you surfed looking for a picture of Shakespear as many people do, please look at the rest of the site too).

 

ENTERTAINERS AND ACTORS

Alan Autry-American actor, politician, and former NFL football player. He is best known for his role as Captain Bubba Skinner on the television series In the Heat of the Night,

Stephen Baldwin; Opera singer and actor Last Exit to Broklyn, Born On The Fourth of July, The Beast, Bio-Dome

Fred Berry- pioneer of break dancing, actor best known for Rerun of What's Happening;

Hugh Beaumont T.V. icon"Ward Cleaver" on Leave it To Beaver. He was a  Methodist minister who only acted part time so he could continue to be a minister full time;

Dan Biggers- actor best known for his role as Frank "Doc" Robb on the television series In the Heat of the Night. He is also the former Dean of Students at Berry College, Mt. Berry Georgia

Vincent Price - Horror Film Icon, art collector, gormet cook.
Price has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and is most well known for his appearance in several campy horror films. Price earned a degree from Yale in art history and fine art. He was a member of the Courtauld Institute, London, where he recieved his Master's Degree. Price began his acting career in 1935 and is best remembered for his horror films such as The Invisible Man Returns, The House of Wax, The Last Man On Earth, The Fly, and the original House On Haunted Hill. In between these horror films, Price played Baka in The Ten Commandments. He played many villainous roles in Film Noir genere thrillers like The Web, The Long Night, Rogues' Regiment, and The Bribe. In the 1955-1956 television season he appeared three times as Rabbi Gershom Seixos in the ABC anthology series, Crossroads, a study of clergymen from different faiths. Price also appeared in several Roger Corman cult classics, including House of Usher, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The Comedy of Terrors, The Masque of Red death, The Abomanible Dr. Phibes, and as the inventor in Tim Burton's  Edward Scissorhands. He was also host of the PBS television series Mystery! Price also had a sense of humor about his sinister image and poked fun of himself on such ventures as 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo.  From 1962 to 1971, Sears & Roebuck offered the "Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art", selling about 50,000 pieces of fine art to the general public. Price selected and commissioned works for the collection, including works by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dalí. He and his wife donated over 90 pieces of art to the East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, thus establishing the first "teaching art collection" owned by a community college in the U.S. He converted from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholicism in later life. What, you thought he was a Satanist? MUHAHAHAHAH! He was a Christian!

 
Candace Cameron; TV and film actress Full House, Boy Meets World, No One Would tell, She Cried No, Night Scream, Make It or Break it, Some Kind of Wonderful

Kirk Cameron; TV actor turned minister Full House, Left Behind film series

Jim Carrey; Actor, comedian, The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine In The Spotless Mind, Bruce Almighty, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Number 23, etc.

James Caviezel; Film Actor Bobby Jones: Sroke of Genius, The Thin Red Line, The Count of Monte Cristo,

Iris Chacon; Actress, Singer, Entertainer, Dancer. Puerto Rican icon.



Jaileen Cintron;


William Colgate;

Miguel Cotto;

Elvis Crespo;

Andrea Martin comedianne of SCTV fame.

Jennifer Jones Oscar winning actress. Appeared in several films in the 40's-70's including Duel in the Sun, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Song of Bernadette, A Farewell to Arms, Beat the Devil, Angel, Angel, Down We Go (a.k.a Cult of the Damned)and The Towering Inferno In later years was a leader of the Norton Simon Museum.
 

Christian AGNES MOOREHEAD Actress best known for her role as "Endora" on the '60's ABC sitcom Bewitched. What, you thought she was a Wiccan? <snicker> Nope, she was actually a member of the Methodist Church. According tho the actress who played "Tabitha" on the series, Agnes often read Bible stories on the set in between takes to the children who acted on the show!
 
 

 
Joe English Flemish draughtsman and painter ;

Chad Everett beefcake actor  best known for his role as Dr. Joe Gannon on Medical Center (1969-1976), and Centennial miniseries ;

Gerardo; Latin rapper

Clarence Gilyard; Actor Matlock, Walker Texas Ranger, and a college professor

Jeff Gordon;

 Amy Grant; Christian recording artist and pop star.
A.C. Green;

Keith Green;

Norman Greenbaum;

M.C. Hammer; 80's rap star who became a minister.

David Hart;

Darren Hayes;

Evander Holyfield; Heavy weight boxing champion.

Mahalia Jackson;

LeBron James;

Marty Jannetty;

Avery Johnson;

Gladys Knight; 70's Motown recording artist (Midnight Train To Georgia)

Michael Landon Jr.;  Actor, son of Michael Landon

Tom Lester;

C Hal Lindsey;

Tom Lister Jr.;

Jane Fonda- actress, controversial political activist

Michael Moore - controversial documentary film maker
 
 
Christian Dick Smothers Dick Smothers came out of the Bible closet a few years back and admitted he was a Christian in a television interview. Small wonder mom always liked him best! (and for that matter, maybe Tom is one too).





Brian Littrell;

Angel Manfredy;

 Brennan Manning;

 Pete Maravich;

Kelly Martin;

Jerry Mathers;

Shawn Michaels;

Gavin McCloud;

Steve McQueen;

Moby;

Andy Montanez;

Alvy Moore;

Mandy Moore;

Tia and Tamera Mowry; Twin actresses Sister Sister

 Rich Mullins;

Lila Murillo;

Chelsea Noble;

Larry Norman;

Flannery O'Connor;

Carroll O'Connor; Actor, star of "All In The Family" and "In The Heat of The Night" (Roman Catholic)

Jennifer O'Neill;

Ken Osmond;

 Peret;

Jorge Porcel;

Mark Price;

Aaron Pryor;

Michael Redd;

Judge Reinhold;

Cliff Richard;

David Ruprecht;

David Robinson;

Jose Luis Rodriguez Gonzolez;
 
Christian Ann B. Davis Yep! Alice from the Brady Bunch is one of us! How can you hate Alice? Be nice and maybe she'll make you some pork chops and apple sauce!

 









Robert Walker - actor (Strangers on a Train, etc.)
 
Marie Windsor - Movie actress, painter, and sculptor, best known for her B-movie and Film Noir roles. Freaky Friday (1976), Chamber of Horrors, The Day Mars Invaded Earth, etc., Appeared in over 70 films and several TV shows in the 70's, including General Hospital and The Incredible Hulk.

Elijah Wood - actor

Heather Young - TV star, Land of Giants, etc.,

Roy Rogers cowboy actor who appeared in over 100 films ;

Tim Russert Host of NBC's Meet The Press;

Alex Sonchez;

Deion Sanders;

Dorothy L. Sayers;

Martin Sheen; Apocalypse Now, etc.,

Arnold Schwarzenegger; Body Builder, actor, Govenor of California

John Schneider The Dukes of Hazzard, Smallville founder of Faith Works! ministries;

Earnie Shavers;

Sonny Shroyer Enos, The Dukes of Hazzard,

Jessica Simpson;

Michael W. Smith; Sons of the San Joaquin;

Gwen Stefani recording artist, member of No Doubt;

James Stewart Hollywood icon, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, also an Air Force General;

Tonea Stewart; Stryper;

A.J. Styles;

Mr. T -  80's TV icon, The A Team, Rocky II,

P.J. Thomas;

Randy Travis country music legend;

Christian Ubber;

Yolanda Vadiz;

Dick Van Dyke TV icon The Dick Van Dyke Show, Diagnosis: Murder;

Jaci Velazquez;

Ken Wales;

Susan Wales;

Andre Ward;

Kurt Warner;

Reggie White;

Buck Williams;

Michelle Williams;

Marcos Witt;  
 
 
Christian Alfred Hitchcock  Mis-identified as an atheist by some. One of the masters of cinema, Hitch was actually a devout Roman Catholic who attended church regularly throughout his life. His film North by Northwest (1959) is listed as one of "The 50 Best Catholic Movies of All Time". It is interesting to note that the three best directors who ever worked in Hollywood, Frank Capra, John Ford, and Alfred Hitchcock, were all practicing Catholics. So much for the idea of the detrimental effects in these times of the Church upon art.  "Almost without exception, they [Hitchcock's films, as well as DePalma's, Capra's, Scorsese, Copolla--all Catholics] display a Catholic sense of sin, guilt, atonement and redemption. Their most virtuous heroes struggle with grace as members of a communion of sinners. They seek redemption within a community rather than as individuals, and often salvation is mediated by a loving, self-sacrificing savior."  (from Afterimage by Blake)
 
Yuri (Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco ) Mexican recording artist "Tú Iluminas Mi Vida" ; During the 1980's-1990's  Yuri's albums and singles often reached the top of the charts, earning her over 100 gold albums in Mexico alone.

Charlie Zaa;Colombian Latin pop singer

Steven F. Zambo; president of Salty Earth Pictures His credits include Finding Home, Movie Critters Big Picture, The Daze Before Christmas, Thats Easy for You to Say! and The Daily Grind.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I. "Dandy Jim Buckley" on Maverick

Stephanie Zimbalist; The Awakening,  The Golden Moment

Willie Aames - former actor ("Eight is Enough") turned "Bibleman"

Corbin Allred - actor, "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"; "Teen Angel"

Billy Barty - actor, famed "Little People" activist, Willow, Sigmund and the Seamonsters, The Bugaloos, 

Justine Bateman - actress Family Ties,

Gary Burghoff - actor ("Radar O'Reilly" on M.A.S.H.)

Gary Busey - actor The Buddy Holly Story,

Kirk Cameron - actor, "Growing Pains"

Carl Clarfalio - actor ("The Thing" in Roger Corman's Fantastic Four film)

Lacey Chabert - Actress from "Party of Five"

Anna Chlumsky - Actress Deezer D - Actor on "E.R.", Christian rapper

Clifton Davis - movie star

Hazel Dawn - movie star

Laraine Day - movie star

Mark Deakins - actor "Star Trek: Insurrection", Axum on "Star Trek: Voyager")

Donna Douglas - actress ("Elly May Clampett" on Beverly Hillbillies, Frankie Loves Johnny, Twilight Zone)

Roma Downey - actress on "Touched by an Angel"

Robert Duvall - actor

Aaron Eckhart - movie star ("The Pledge", "Erin Brockovich", "Possession", etc.,

Dale Evans (1912-2001) - actress and Western recording artist,

 
 
Christian Demond Wilson Played the son of nutty junkman Fred Sanford on 70's TV hit Sandford and Son.  In real life, he's no big dummy! Yes, "Lamont Sanford" of "Sanford and Son" fame is a Christian. Demond left the glitter and glitz of Hollywood and found Jesus. Now he's a minister!
 


 
Kim Fields - actress, "Facts of Life"

Rhonda Fleming - movie star

Ryan Gosling - actor ("The Believer", Hercules on "Young Hercules")

Andy Griffith - actor, "Andy Griffith Show", Matlock,

Charlton Heston - actor, "The Ten Commandments", Planet of The Apes, 

Tom Hanks - Movie legend, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Castaway,

Dean Jagger - movie star (Academy Award for "Twelve O'Clock High", etc.)

Dean Jones - appeared in several Disney films

Danny Kamekona - actor (popular Hawaiian actor; "Hawaii 5-O"; Miyagi's rival "Sato" in "Karate Kid II")

Richard Kiel - actor; Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me; Moonraker

Carol Lawrence - singer/dancer/actress,

Olivia Newton-John - popular Australian-born singer, actress

ChristianJean Stapleton Played Archie Bunker's tone deaf wife Edith on 70's sitcom All In The Family Stapelton says she often consulted her concordance to look up Bible verses when facing life's problems.

 



Bruce Marchiano - actor, Jesus in The Gospel According to Matthew

Gavin McLeod - actor, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Captain Stubing on The Love Boat

Terry Moore - Academy Award-nominated actress Come Back, Little Sheba, etc.

Robert Newman - actor,  Austen O'Brian - actor on Promised Land

Merlin Olsen - football player, actor (Little House on the Prairie; Aaron's Way)

Jennifer O'Neill - actor

Kelly Packard - Wonder Years; Blossom; Step By Step; Baywatch; Boy Meets World

Austin Peck - Soap Opera actor

 
Christian Della Reese - actress, singer, "Touched by an Angel" Della credits God (the one in the "xtian" Bible) for her miraculous healing, and became a minister. http://www.dellareese.com/html/minst.html
 
 
 
Pat Priest - actress ("Marilyn Munster" on The Munsters TV show; Easy Come, Easy Go w/Elvis Presley)
Judge Reinhold - actor

Mickey Rooney actor, starred in several movies with Judy Garland, 

Jane Russell - movie star, Mis-identifiedd by some as a Satanist...probably by confusing her with Jayne Mansfield.

Brittany Murphy film actress and singer Clueless, 8 Mile, Girl Interrupted, voice of Luanne Platter on King of The Hill. Raised a Bapstist, she later became a non-denominational Christian.

Connie Seleca - actress, Nancy Stafford - actress on Matlock, MacGyver,

David Suchet - actor ("Hercule Poirot" on the PBS series Mystery)

Russ Tamblyn - actor (Peyton Place, West Side Story, etc.)

Ben Vereen - actor,

Paul Walker - movie actor; Varsity Blues, Meet the Deedles, The Fast and the Furious, etc.

 Loretta Young - movie star Best Actress Academy Award for The Farmer's Daughter
 

 Walker Edmiston (1926 - 2007) Actor and voice-over artist. Hosted L.A. kid's show,"The Walker Edmiston Show" during the '50's & '60's that featured puppets of his own creation. Edmiston appeared on various television programs  during the ‘50s – ‘80s, including Star T
Christianrek, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Get Smart, Maverick, The Wild Wild West, Dallas, Quincy, Knots Landing, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Bob Newhart Show, Fantasy Island, Green Acres, Batman...and just about all the rest. His voice may be best known as the adult John Boy heard narrating on The Waltons. Edmiston did many television commercials and cartoon character voices, such as Ernie Keebler the Elf and various Kellogg’s characters and also on  The Transformers, The Great Mouse Detective, The Smurfs, and The Flintstones, Spiderman, Disney's Gummy Bears, and Jem . Saturday morning wouldn't have been as magical without Edmiston's voice lent to such characters as Sigmund and The Sea Monsters,  H. R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos and especially Land of the Lost (he played Enik the Altrusian, and Jefferson Davis Collie III, and did all Sleestak voices,). He also did the voice of Tom Riley and many character voices on the Christian children’s radio program, Adventures in Odyssey, for twenty years.
 
 
Christian Mister Rogers Hey neighbor...did you know the late Fred Rogers was a Christian? I know, you're thinking, "No! He was too nice! He couldn't have been! NOOOOO!" Ah, but it's true. He even had a Doctrate in Theology to boot!
 




 
 
TV/Movie Producers and Directors

Martha Williamson - executive producer "Touched by an Angel"

John Woo - director, "Mission Impossible II", "Broken Arrow"

Don Bluth - animation director/producer (Land Before Time; Titan A.E.; The Secret of NIMH; etc.)

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New Zoo Revue People Remember that kids show from the 1970's? Yep, the actors who played the two main characters are in real life both Christians and very active in the Lutheran Church.
 
Richard Dutcher - director/screenwriter/actor (Girl Crazy; God's Army)

Kieth Merrill (Academy award-winning IMAX director; "The Great American Cowboy; "Amazon", etc.)

Jerry Molen - movie producer (Schindler's List; Jurassic Park, Twister; Hook; Rain Man; etc.)

Richard Rich - animation director (The King and I; The Black Cauldron)

 Ken Wales - producer, "Christy"

Michael Warren - producer, "Family Matters"

Kim Alexis - professional model Al Kasha - film composer, two-time Academy Award winner

Jane Clayson - co-anchor, "The Early Show" with Bryant Gumbel

Howard Finster - former preacher turned artist

Jeff Foxworthy - comedian

Kathie Lee Gifford - television talk show host

Johnny Hart - cartoonist, "B.C." comic strip

Michael Klausman - president, CBS Studio Center Hollywood

Mark Lowry - comedian

Deborah Norvill - "Inside Edition" anchor

Heather Whitestone-McCallum - first deaf Miss America
 

Christian Michael Gross Mike was the dad on "Family Ties". His sister Mary was on Saturday Night Live in the 80's and was Sabrina The Teenage Witch's teacher. In real life, this brother and sister are (you guessed it) Christians (gasp!). They were so churchy growing up they even used to play Church as kids. And yes, they're still Christians.


 
Mel Gibbson Perfect? No. In an interview he once said his religion was "somewhere between Howard Stern and St. Francis of Asissi". Like all people, he's done things Christians shouldn't have done, but he's done a lot of good things too. Producer of "the Passion of Christ" movie every non-Christian made fun of (because they're afraid of things they don't understand). Gibson Credits his faith in Christ with saving his life.  
 
 
Christian Lisa Whelchel Even though Blair on the Facts of Life was a stuck up diva, Lisa is actually a really nice person and family gal (and one of those awful "xtians").
Tom and Ray Magliozzi (a.k.a. Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers) hosts of National Public Radio's "Car Talk" program.
 

 
 
ATHLETES AND SPORTS

Liliana Chala' Olympic athlete representing Ecuador, 1988 and 1992.

Bryan Clay - Track & Field (Decathlon)2004 Silver Medal winner

Allyson Felix - Track & Field Allyson is not afraid to stand up for her faith, which she says is the most important aspect of her life.

Steven and Diana Lopez - Diana Lopez is following in her older brothers' footsteps. Steven already has two Olympic gold medals in Taekwondo and will be competing with his sister in Beijing.

Sanya Richards - Track & Field

Donny Robinson - BMX (Bicycling Motocross)Donny Robinson won the 2006 National Bicycle League Championship and the 2007 USA Cycling BMX National Championship.

Laura Wilkinson - Platform Diving

Ruthie Bolton-Holifield, Olympic and professional basketball player. Bolton played in the WNBA from 1997 through 2004 with the Sacramento Monarchs. She played collegiately at Auburn University. 

BOXING AND MARTIAL ARTS
 
Christian George Forman Not only does this ex-heavy weight champ make an awsome grill, but he's a Christian minister! He knocks out the fat and knocks out Satan too!
 
 





Chris Byrd; Professional boxer, WBO and IBF Heaveyweight Champion


Vince Russo; Wrestler for WWF and WCW, also a writer
 
David B. Smith - Kick Boxing Champion and 6th degree black belt, he's also an Anglican Priest and Father of three! Henry Armstrong - World boxing champion

Billy Blanks - Martial Artist, Olympiad,Inventor of Tae Bo

Paulie Ayala-Mexican - American former boxer who is a two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian , and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually each one of his fights.

Bob Fitzsimmons-Boxing's First Triple World Champion,

Chuck Norris - actor, martial artist, star of Walker Texas Ranger, appeared in dozens of films including Path of The Dragon, Game of Death, and an early student of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kwon Do, as well as Lee's friend.

Johnny Tapia-five-time world boxing champion. Steve "Sting"

 Borden-professional wrestler and actor

Tiger Flowers-first African-American middleweight champion;

Esteban De Jesus - world lightweight champion boxer ;
 
Basketball
Jennifer Azzi,collegiate and professional basketball player.

Shane Battier,Houston Rockets

Walter Bond, Dallas Mavericks (1992/93), Utah Jazz (1993/95) and Detroit Pistons (1994/95)

Dee Brown, American basketball player, coach, and commentator, played at Jacksonville University, and in the NBA 1990–2002

Hubert Davis, New York Knicks, Toranto Raptors,was known for his accurate three-point shot. Davis is currently employed by ESPN as a college basketball analyst.

 Bryce Drew ,best known for his buzzer-beating shot in the first round of Valparaiso's improbable run in the 1998 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Julius Erving a.k.a, "Dr. J", won three championships, four Most Valuable Player Awards, and three scoring titles while playing with the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. He is the fifth-highest scorer in professional basketball history, with 30,026 points (NBA and ABA combined). He is well-known for slam dunking from the free throw line in Slam Dunk Contests.Erving was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time team and in 1993 was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. In 2004, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. Many consider him among the most spectacular basketballers ever.

Derek Fischer, L.A. Lakers. His career has spanned more than 14 years. He is one of the most well-respected players in the league and is known for his clutch shooting in NBA Playoffs games.

AC Green , played in more consecutive games than any other player in NBA and ABA history (1,192). He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat.

Hersey Hawkins, L.A. Clippers, Philidelphia Sixers

Allan Houston, retired American professional basketball player for the NBA, and currently the Assistant to the President for Basketball Operations, for the New York Knicks. Currently Houston spends his time helping different charity and non-profit organizations.

Mark Jackson played point guard for the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Toronto Raptors, Utah Jazz, and Houston Rockets in the NBA in a career spanning from 1987 to 2004. He was previously an NBA analyst for The YES Network's New Jersey Nets games.

Avery Johnson, retired American professional basketball player and former head coach of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Johnson is known as the "Little General" for his small (by NBA standards) stature, his leadership skills as a point guard and floor general.

Kevin Johnson , As a basketball player, he was a three-time NBA All-Star and five-time All-NBA selection who holds many records for the Phoenix Suns franchise.[3] At University of California, Berkeley, Johnson had been a two-time All-Pac 10 Conference player who was also an honorable-mention All-American by the Associated Press sportswriters.He is the current mayor of Sacramento, California.

Lisa Leslie , was a American professional women's basketball player in the WNBA for the Los Angeles Sparks.[1] She is a three-time WNBA MVP and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner.

Brent Price , played for Washington for 3 years scoring an average of 3 points a game, and made 41% of his field Goals for the Washington Bullets.

David Robinson, NBA MVP in 1995; Two Time NBA Champion, U.S. Navy Alumni

Keith Smart, former basketball player and current coach. He is best remembered for hitting the game-winning shot in the 1987 NCAA championship game. The shot gave the Indiana Hoosiers a 74–73 victory over the Syracuse Orangemen.

Charlie Ward, a three sports retired American professional NBA basketball player, college football Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien Award winner and a Major League Baseball draftee. By some sports media and publications Ward has received recognition for being one of the best all-around athletes in the last quarter century.[1] He was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006.

Meadowlark Lemon Harlem Globetrotters Fame,

Kevin "The Duck"Duckworth; Seatle Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers Named the NBA's Most Improved Player and a two-time All-Star.

Vince Carter; shooting guard/small forward for the Orlando Magic.
 
Baseball
Felipe Alou, former outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball and the former manager of the San Francisco Giants and Montreal Expos.

Rick Aguillara, former pitcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago Cubs.

Michael Barrett, catcher for the for the Toronto Blue Jays

Jay Bell, former Major League Baseball shortstop and second baseman who played for the Cleveland Indians (1986-88), Pittsburgh Pirates (1989-96), Kansas City Royals (1997), Arizona Diamondbacks (1998-2002) and New York Mets (2003).

Andy Benes, right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four teams: the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Arizona Diamondbacks, in a fourteen-year career from 1989 to 2002.

Lance Berkman, Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros. Berkman is known as "The Big Puma,"

Dante Bichette,

Jeff Brantley,

Paul Byrd,

Brett Butler ,

Sean Casey,

Gary Garter,

Joe Carter ,

Chad Curtis,

 Dave Dravecky ,

JD Drew,

Travis Fryman ,

Joe Girardi,

Orel Hershiser ,

Sterling Hitchcock,

Rex Hudler ,

Greg McMichael,

Kevin Millwood,

John Olerud,

Andy Pettitte ,

Harold Reynolds ,

Bobby Richardson ,

John Smoltz,

Mike Sweeney,

Billy Wagner,

Walt Weiss,

Carlos Baerga,

Babe Ruth
 
Football
Tony Dungy Only African American athlete to win 2 superbowls as aplayer and a coach
 
Christian Rosie Greer Football player, Bobby Kennedy's bodyguard, and guy in "The Thing With Two Heads". Yep, he's a Christian minister!



 

Bruce Matthews, offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Oilers/Tennessee Titans

Anthony Munoz

Damon Allen;

Doug Peterson,

Frank Reich ,

Deion Sanders ,quarterback in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and the Detroit Lions. For a time, he had the distinction of having led his team to the biggest comeback victory ever in both the collegiate and professional ranks.

Mike Singletary ,

Dan Reeves,

Gale Sayers ,

Jay Schroeder, quarterback in the National Football League who played for the Washington Redskins (1985-1987), Los Angeles Raiders (1988-1992), Cincinnati Bengals (1993) and Arizona Cardinals (1994)

Adam Timmerman,

Adam Vinateri,

Aeneas Williams,

Kurt Warner, starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals.

Bill Bates,

Michael Barrow,

Jeff Blake,

Kyle Brady,

Tim Brown, 1987 Heisman Trophy winner

Mark Brunnel,

Ray Buchanan,

David Carr ,

Cris Carter,

Howard Cross, played in 207 games for the Giants, and although he was known more for his blocking expertise, he finished his 13 year career in 2001 with 201 receptions for 2,194 yards and 17 touchdowns.

Randall Cunningham,

Trent Dilfer ,

Jason Elam,

Jeff Fisher ,

Irving Fryer ,

Rich Gannon,

Joe Gibbs,

Jason Gildon,

Aaron Glenn,

Kent Graham,

Darrell Green ,

Brent Jones ,

 Jon Kitna,

Steve Largent ,

Tommy Maddux,

Curtis Martin ,
 

 
ENTREPENURES and BUSINESS LEADERS
 
 
Christian Colonel Harlan Sanders Determined Senior Citizen who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken was a Christian. The state of Kentucky honored him by making him a "Kentucky Colonel". I guess you don't need magic spells to be rich and successful after all.                
 


Jerry Colangelo; businessman and sports mogul. He is the former owner of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes.

 
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's

 Chef Victor Bouardi a.k.a Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Created a commercial sensation when he began to sell his cans of his speghetti sauce out of his restraunt.

Bob Moore - Founder of Bob's Red Mills Natural Foods in 1978. In 2010, rather than sell his company at retirment, he instead gave ownership to his 200 employees. Moore said his desciion was based on the Christian idea that "The love of money is the root of all evil".

Truett Cathy - founder Chik-Fil-A (which is why all Chik-Fil-As are closed on Sundays),

 Cecil Day - founder Day's Inn,

W. Clement Stone real life rags to riches story. Went from selling newspapers as a child to becoming a billionaire with the insurance company he started, the Combined Insurance Company. A philanthropist and self-help author. He wrote The Success System That Never Fails and Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.

Arthur DeMoss - businessman and author, founder, DeMoss Foundation ,

H.G. Heinz - founder, Heinz ketchup,

Leonard Lesord - founder "Guidepost Magezine",

 Norm Miller- Chairman of the Board, Interstate Batteries,

Lowell "Bud" Paxxon - founder PAX-TV ,

James Cash Penney (1875-1971) - founder, J.C. Penney department stores,

Charlie Plumb - motivational speaker, former Vietnam P.O.W.

Tom Pryor - ICMS; ABM ,

Sam Walton - founder of Wal-Mart , at one time the richest man in the world.

Zig Ziggler - famous motivational speaker
 
Chris Gardner A real life rags to riches story. Gardner escaped the poverty, alcoholism, and abuse that he had been exposed to growing up to become a multi-millionaire. After suffering many hard knocks in life, including being a homeless single parent for a year, Gardner overcame the obstacles to Christianeventually establish the Gardner Rich and Co. Investment firm in Chicago. Today Gardner is also a motivational speaker and philanthropist. He is a contributer to the Cara Program and to the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, where he and his son received desperately-needed shelter. Gardner remembers the encouragement he received from Reverend Cecil Williams, pastor of Glide Memorial . When he and his son would attend the church’s Sunday services, often something Rev. Williams said would stick in his mind. One such phrase, Gardner said, was the idea that “baby steps count too.” That simple word of encouragement helped Gardner press through the difficult days.  “As long as you are going forward, baby steps count too,” Gardner said. “And rolling my child through the streets of San Francisco, and up the hills and down the hills, and through the rain, I just kept saying to myself, 'Baby steps count too.'” His story became the basis for the 2006 Will Smith film "The Pursuit of Happyness". And he did it without gris gris bags, prosperity talismans, or knowing which Enochian Key to use. Just think, you can be a success with out sorcery!                
 

 
SOCIAL REFORMERS and HUMANITARIANS
 

Rosa Parks She was a member of the African-Methodist -Episcopal Church, and actually believed in it too. Her Christian faith only made her feel sorry for the white tormentors who called her "nigger" or threw rocks at her as she walked to school. Reading Psalms 23 and 27 early on had given Rosa McCauley the strength to love her enemies, and eventually overcome them. All haters who mock Christians as weak take note: Christianity made her powerful and strong!
 
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka- writer of historical novels, she helped save Jews in occupied Poland during the Second World War
 
Millard and Linda Fuller The Founders of Habitat for Humanity. The former Christian missionairies started the orginization to help people get houses who otherwise wouldn't in 1976. In 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded Fuller the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, calling Habitat for Humanity “…the most successful continuous community service project in the history of the United States.”
 Josephine Brawley Hughes - an advocate of women's rights in the United States;
 
 
Dr. Rev.Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Rev. King often quoted the Bible in his many speeches, and compared the 60's Civil Rights movement to the Exodus of the Jews under Pharo.  He was a Christian minister, husband and father, a civil-rights leader, advocate of non-violence resistance to achieve desegregation in the US, and an internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize recipient. "I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the GLORY OF THE LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope...This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, 'My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring'." The words of Rev. King continue to inspire many people today to find the courage and energy to work for social changes that serve equality, extend freedoms, secure justice, raise human dignity. Martin Luther King Jr., one of those "awful xtians".    
 
Abbot Iscu Many people nowadays are too young to remember the Cold War and the evil Soviet Union that enslaved half of Europe. The Christians were targeted for elimination in this “worker’s paradise”. In Romania, 1951, Abbot Iscu was one such “awful xtian” who was jailed and tortured by the Communists. He was tortured and beaten and ordered to renounce Christ, which he would not do. Ironically, one of the very men who tortured the Abbot was later imprisoned himself…in a cell with Iscu. An occultist no doubt would have probably uttered some kind of death hex at this point (pointless of course, since the man was going to die anyway, but that’s how “Magick” usually works!). The guard was restless and afraid of the certain death that awaited him. But as both men awaited death from their injuries, the Abbot forgave the man for torturing him, and even led him to Christ. Both men died peacefully on Christmas Eve, 1951. Abbot Iscu, one of those “awful xtians”.
Richard Wurmbrant  (1909-2001) Born in Romania, Richard suffered imprisonment and torture under both the Nazis and Communists. While in prison, the Communists (who were atheists) forced the prisoners to have a mock communion using urine and feces in place of the elements. The torture Wurmbrand said he dreaded the most was a refridgerated cell. The guards would place a prisoner in the cell naked and leave them until the prisoner was almost at the point of death. Then they would take the prisoner out and revive them…only to place them back in the cell for another round of torture. Wurmbrand would later write the expirence was so terrible, even in his later years of freedom he dreaded to open a refridgerator door because of the flashbacks it caused. The man’s only crime for which he recived fourteen years  of imprisonment (and don’t expect to read about it on the OCRT website, run by Wiccans and atheists) was that he wanted to share the Christian faith with people. He became known as the "The Voice of the Underground Church", doing much to publicize the persecution of Christians in Communist (atheist run) countries. [Note: for information read Tortured for Christ by Richard Wirmbrand available from Amazon.com or Voice of the Martyrs].  Richard Wurmbrand, one of those “awful xtians”.



Maximilian Kolbe Many people are under the delusion that the Nazis were “xtians”. In truth, the Nazis leaders were Neopagan Odinists and athiests who sought to exterminate us “xtians”. After an escape from a concentration camp, 10 prisoners were rounded up by the Nazis to be executed in retaliation. One Christianman begged for his life, pleading the Nazi’s not kill him. Fr. Kolbe stepped forward and asked to take the man’s place. The prisoners were taken away to slowly starve. While an occultist might have tried chanting spells to free himself (which wouldn’t have worked. Caglisostro and Franz Bardon and Edward Kelley couldn’t free themselves from prison, for instance ), or throwing some kind of hex (which also wouldn’t have worked). Fr. Kolbe comforted the other prisoners with prayers, songs, and stories of Christ’s sacrifice for them. The Nazis finished the job they started two weeks later, by injecting Fr. Kolbe with Carbolic Acid. The man who Fr. Kolbe had saved would later live to see his freedom, and tell the world of the man who saved him. Fr. Kolbe, one of those “awful xtians” killed under a Neopagan regime for being a Christian.

Bishop Ignatius of Antioch While many Neopagans fantasize the Pagans of ancient times as being wise and enlightened and possessing the magical powers they so crave, the truth is quite different. They were usually cruel, intolerant, and brutal. The Pagan Roman Emperor Trajan began the third period of persecution during his reign, believing Christians to be “superstitious”. One such Christian was Ignatius of Antioch. Brought before the Emperor for refusing to sacrifice animals to Pagan idols (gods), Trajan condemned him to death. In an arena he was torn apart by two lions while throngs of Pagans cheered in 111 A.D. His writings still survive among the works of the early church fathers.

Bishop Ignatius of Antioch: one of those “awful xtians” murdered by Pagans.

Chang Shen In the 19th century, Chang lived a life most Thelemites and Satanists dream of. He was a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk. The people of his village thought there was no good in him. One day he lost his sight, which the villagers credited to punishment from their Bhuddist gods (idols). Chang heard of a hospital run by Christian missionarires (yep, those awful “xtians” again) hundreds of miles away that might be able to restore his eyesight. He made the long trek to the hospital…even though he was blind. When he arrived at the hospital, it was full, but the Hospital’s evangelist agreed to give up his own bed. Chang not only recived some of his eyesight back but he also became a Christian. During the boxer rebellion, many Christians were murdered by Chinese Pagans. Chang agreed to die in the place of other Christians who had been captured. The Chineese took him to a temple of the Chineese god (idol) of war…the equivalent to Roman Pagan Mars…and ordered him to worship. He refused. They ordered him to worship Bhudda, he refused again. He turned his back to the idols and sang a hymn to Christ. Three days later the Pagan Chineese murdered him. Fearing Chang’s ghost would seek revenge, the superstitious boxers fled the area, and many Christians were spared further wrath of these enlightened followers of Chineese Paganism. Chang Shen was murdered in 1890 A.D. and his only crime was he would not bow to Pagan idols. Chang Shen: one of those “awful xtians”.

Janani Lulim He was one of thousands of Christians murdered in Uganda. Idi Amin Dada was the butt of many jokes here in the U.S.A. in the 1970’s. The rolly-polly dictator, with his chest of medals seemed like a living joke to late night comedians. But Amin was no laughing matter for the thousands of Christians whom he slaughtered during his reign as Uganda’s dictator. Janani Lulim was one such Christian. He was tortured and killed and his only crime he was a Christian who refused to keep silent. Janani Lulim, one of those “awful xtians”.

Japanese “Kirishtans”In 1596  followers of the goddess worshipping Pagan religion known as Shinto and Bhuddists begun the persecution of Christians known as the “Kirishtan Holocaust”. You probably haven't heard of it, since hating Christians is politically corrct nowadays. The first victims were executed by crucifixion. The youngest martyr was only 12 years old. An estimated 1 million followers were killed over a period of 260 years which did not end until Japan was defeated by the Allies during World War II. The Japanese martyrs: some of those “awful xtians”.

     The Thundering Legion The bloodthirsty Pagan butcher Marcus Aurelis Antoninus was once the Emperor of Rome. He considered worship of the Pagan gods (idols) important to the success of the Empire, and thus considered Christianity to be heresy. He led the fourth major Pagan Roman persecution of Christians during 163 A.D. to 180 A.D. (Gee, Pagans are starting not to sound so tolerant, are they?) But during a war in Germany against the Quadi and Marcomanni (also Pagans), he and his army found themselves trapped in the mountains with no water. Antonius and the other Pagans beeged their gods for help and …nothing happened. The Pagan gods of Rome were just idols after all, and to paraphrase Ned Flanders, they might as well have been praying to Hawkman. A legion made up entirely of Christians stepped up and asked if they could pray for help with their situation. Antonius, feeling he had nothing left to lose, agreed. The Christians prayed, and a short time later it rained. The Romans were saved, and collected all the water they could, thanks to Jesus. The storm rumbled so loud that most of the enemy defected to the Romans out of fright. The Romans easily defeated the holdouts. The legion later became known as “The Thundering Legion”. Antonius in true Pagan fashion stopped his persecution...for a little while...but then when right back to it a few years later (ingrate!). The Thundering Legion, some of those “awful xtians”.                        

 Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow in 1097 this Bishop confronted King Boleslaw (known as “Boleslaw the Cruel”). The King pretended to listen to Bishop Stanislaus when he confronted him about his cruelty. Later, after his soldiers refused to murder the Bishop in church, the King himself murdered the Bishop with a dagger. Throughout the centuries, many Christians have stood up to tyrants for what we now call “social justice”. It isn’t a new thing. Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow, one of those “awful xtians”.



Teddy Roosevelt President of the U.S.A. and cousin to Franklin. Built the Panama Canal. First Prez to fly in an airplane. Also  created more protected land and natural parks than any other President. He was a Christian who once said "A good knowledge of the Bible is more important than a college education". Seems you CAN be a success without magic spells and be a "xtian" to boot! Bully!

 



Frankiln D. Roosevelt The guy on the dime. Also a president, and an unprecendented 4 termer at that. He put people to work during the Great Depression (my dad for one) with projects like the Conservation Corps. He kicked some Nazi posterior in WWII and showed handicapped people are handi-capable. He also proved the Nazi idea of handicapped people being "inferior" to be bunk like all their anti-Christian ideas. Once a reporter asked how FDR would describe himself, he replied "A Christian first and a Democrat second."

 
Harriet Tubman Tubman (1820-1931) became a friend of many of the best-known abolitionists and their sympathizers. John Brown referred to her in his letters as "one of the best and bravest persons on this continent—General Tubman as we call her."The pioneer of the underground railroad. Tubman's friends and fellow abolitionists claimed that the source of her strength came from her faith in God as deliverer and protector of the weak. "I always told God," she said, "'I'm going to hold steady on you, and you've got to see me through.'"  God always did. It wasn't Voodoo that freed Sister Tubman, it was Jesus Christ! Tubman said she would listen carefully to the voice of God as she led slaves north, and she would only go where she felt God was leading her. Fellow abolitionist Thomas Garrett said of her, "I never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God."


Saint Nicholas Yes Habondia Star Raven, there really was a Santa Claus! Saint Nicholas (Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος , Agios Nikolaos, "victory of the people") is the common name for Nicholas of Myra, a 3rd Century Christian saint and ChristianBishop of Myra in Lycia of Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey). Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercessions, he is also known as Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. His name in Dutch is Santa Claus. His acts of charity saved three girls from being sold into prostitution. Inspired by his anonymous gifts of money, Christians remember his act by exchanging presents at Chistmas. So the next time someone mocks you for believeing in Jesus and says "Is Santa Claus real too?", now you can wipe that little self-righteous smirk right off their face!   

 
 
CHRISTIANS ARE STILL BEING PERSECUTED! IT DIDN'T END WITH THE ROMAN PAGANS. EVEN NOW CHRISTIANS ARE BEING TORTURED, DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, AND KILLED OUTRIGHT. Click the banner to find out more (offsite).
 
 
Oskar Schindler
Remember "Schindler's List"? Even though he wasn't always an angel, he did indeed go to church, and he spent an estimated $6,000,000 over the war years to save 500 Jews from death.
 
 
Carol Swain - political scientist, author of Black Faces, Black Interests and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (a convert to Evangelical Christianity)

Reinhold Niebuhr, important theologian, statesman and philospher. Shaped American foriegn policy and fought for social justice.

Irena Sendler (1910-2008) Saved 2500 children during the holocaust. Using her position as a social worker, Sendler regularly entered the ghetto, smuggling around 2,500 children out in boxes, suitcases or hidden in trolleys. The children were then placed with Polish families outside the ghetto, created by Nazi Germany in 1940 for the city's half a million strong Jewish population, and given new identities.Sendler was honored with Israeli Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations medal in 1965 for her actions, and later made an honorary Israeli citizen.She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Price in 2007, despite her bravery, in true Christian humble fasion, she denied she was a hero.

 
Christian
Corrie Ten Boom She and her family risked their freedom and their lives to save 10 Jews from the Holocaust. She and her sister were both sent to Dachau by the Nazis. Her sister lost her life there. Corrie was freed by a clerical error (i.e., a miracle) and after the war became an evangelist.This picture was taken after the war. Corrie is showing where the secret entrance to the hiding place was. Corrie never lost her faith in Christ, and her faith made her courageous and strong! Concerning difficult Bible passages, she said she just waited patiently, and eventually the answer to them came.                

                 
 
The Menonites These good folks live simple lives and wondrous works of charity. While Wiccans and Neopagans talk about getting "close to nature", the Menonites (and their cousins, the Amish and the Brethren) really do live close to nature! You may not have heard of them because they've never had a scandal for haters to gloat over. The Mennonite  Disaster Relieif Orginization helps out everytime there's a disaster.  They use their vacation time to help people rebuild their houses after hurricanes,  tornados, floods, and earthquakes. The people of Hardee county and several neighboring counties in Florida sure appreciated all the help they got when they got hit 4 times in 2004. The people devestated by Hurricane Katrina loved the help they got too! These folks cleaned debris, put new roofs on houses, did electrical work, carpentry, masonry, etc., whatever was needed, and all free of charge. Number of Neopagans who have helped to date: zero.If you guys want to prove how much better you are than the evil "xtians" you better get on the ball!  
 
 
Started by a Christian minister in 1968, "the nine line" (1800-999-9999) has helped many a runanway get off the street.One of the largest privately-funded childcare agencies in the U.S., Covenant House provides services to homeless and runaway youth.

                  
 
That's right, the Salvation Army was started by Christians too.  Its founders William and Catherine Booth sought to bring Christian salvation to the poor , destitute and hungry by meeting both their physical and spiritual needs. Today the Salvation Army operates in over 110 countries, and has given help to millions of people over the years.
 
 
Abolishonists
 
 
The spread of Christianity in Western Europe eventually led to the abolition of slavery by the 13th century. Abolishonoists in the U.S.A (Christians) helped end slavery in the 19th century. Hundreds of Christian Abolishinists like the 3 pictured here helped end slavery in America.  
 

Florence Nightingale
 
The mother of modern nursing. She devoted her life to helping wounded soldiers during Crimean War . Inspired by what she took as "a Christian divine calling", experienced first in 1837 at Embley Park and later throughout her life, Florence committed herself to nursing. This horrible person was one of those awful "xtians", too. She cared for poor and indigent people. In December 1844, in response to a pauper's death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal[citation needed], she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support of Charles Villiers, then president of the Poor Law Board.During the Crimean campaign, Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:
    She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds. Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing, which was published in 1860, a slim 136-page book that served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools established. Notes on Nursing also sold well to the general reading public and is considered a classic introduction to nursing. Nightingale would spend the rest of her life promoting the establishment and development of the nursing profession and organizing it into its modern form.In fact, many nurses are those awful "xtians" as well.
 

 
Who didn't make my list?

Karl Marx: philosopher who repackaged despotism and called it "scientific socialism" i.e. communism, ultimately causing the oprresion of freedom and deaths of millions...an  atheist.

Joseph Stalin, mass murderer, cruel dictator, atheist

Polh Pot, killed one fifth the population of cambodia - - some people for merely wearing glasses or being able to speak French, some as young as 5 years old...an atheist.

Ho Chi Minh, despot, believed to have ordered the deaths of 500,000 to 1 million civilians. Atheist.  

Moa Tse Dung, dictator, his "great leap forward" killed at least 20 million people. Atheist.

Vladimir Lenin, Dictator, ordered the deaths of political opposititon. Atheist.
Adolph Hitler Father of Nazism. Caused the deaths of 6 million Jews, an estimated 10 million Christians. Either occultist or atheist but definatley not a Christian (documents at the Nuremberg Tiral confirm Hitler wanted to eliminate Christianity).

Edie Amin Dada, Cruel dictator, even accused of cannibalism. Muslim.

 Benito Mussolini, Father of facisism, member of the Axis, atheist.

Kim Jong Il, Korean dictator and mass murderer. Atheist.

Fidel Castro cruel dictator, mass murderer and Santerio follower,

Roman  Emperors Nero and Justinian cruel dictators, mass murderer and Pagans.

Suddam Husein and his evil sons Uday and Osay cruel dictators mass murderers and Musllims.

Marquis De Sade; pornographer, sadist and athiest.

Adolph Hitler, Martin Borman, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Mengele Cruel mass murdering dicators. Odinists or religiously indifferent. In any case all were Nazis who supported "kirchenkampf"(a Nazi program to completely eliminate all Christian churches by the end of the war), so they definatley weren't "xtian".

Ossama Bin Laden billionare terroist, world's supplier of tanzanite, Wahabi Muslim.

Yassir Arrafat; terrorist billionaire, Nobel Peace Prize Lauret, Muslim.
Charles Manson; mass murderer and eclectic occultist/Scientologist/drug enthusiast, despite what the OCRT says.
 
SO MAYBE THE "XTIANS" AREN'T COMPLETELY PERFECT, BUT MAYBE THEY AREN'T THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AFTER ALL, EH?
 


              

MERE CHRISTIANITY BY C.S.LEWIS You're probably familiar with C.S. Lewis. He's best remembered for the Chronicles of Narnia, which was inspired by the Gospel of Christ. Unlike LaVey, Lewis really did have a doctorate, and was a college professor to boot! Lewis lost his faith early in life and became an atheist, and later rediscovered Christianity through his friend J.R.Tolkien (of Lord of The Rings fame). Mere Christianity is perhaps is best non-fiction work. In it he presents a thinking person's Christianity, showing you don't have to ditch your brain to be a Christian!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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