Talk:Ravi Zacharias

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God bless Ravi Zacharias for the all the work that he has done...Can you speak to Bill Maher and Howard Stern, please? Perhaps you can convert them.

Soli deo Gloria.. TO God be the glory... Thanks Dr. Ravi for letting yourself be used for His kingdom

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Should it be included what political party Ravi Zacharias belongs to? Whether he is conservative Christian? --WongFeiHung 23:10, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

This is a disingenuous statement. The article already states that he is of the evangelical stripe. Ravi himself has never aligned himself with any political party, although it is clear that he holds conservative values. 24.141.162.244

Disingenuous? I remember a sermon by a Southern evangelical minister who stated " God is not a Republican". You could have heard a pin drop - not even a breathe was taken for some time. The quietest, most shocked parishioners I have ever seen. Unbelieveably, he is still their minister - I thought he was a goner. Conservative values does not necessarily mean "Republican" and/or conservative Christian, though there can be some overlap. I still chuckle when I think of the sermon.

But you see, you just proved the point that it is disingenuous. The original contention was that the second sentence of the OP is a non-sequitur. What party Ravi Zacharias aligns himself to doesn't seem to directly relate to whether he's a conservative Christian or not--those are two different categories. I believe the original poster meant to ask if Ravi was a member of the Christian right.

Contents 1 qoutes 2 Added him to Asian Christians and Indian Christians 3 Mormon contrast? 4 Kingdom of the Cults 5 Palpable dislike

[edit] qoutes

I remember coming on here and seeing a link to wikiqoute on this guy, now his qoutes are all gone. What happened?

[edit] Added him to Asian Christians and Indian Christians

Added him to those categories

[edit] Mormon contrast?

Why is his speaking at the Mormon event in contrast to his editing the Martin book? I'm about to rephrase it to make it more sensible. Also added links to relevant terms. --ShawnLee 16:39, 8 Nov 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kingdom of the Cults

Did Ravi's version include a Word-Faith criticism section?

WAVY 10 22:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Palpable dislike

It seems that an earlier author shows a palpable dislike for this person, Ravi Zacharias. Here are his previous comments, which I will edit,

"Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is a Canadian-American Evangelical Protestant Christian Preacher who prefers to present himself as a philosopher and apologist.

Zacharias is descended from a long line of people who have made their living telling stories about the empirically unverifiable, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste). and later as Christian preachers. "

I don't believe the comments about him being a preacher but preferring to call himself a philosopher and apologist conform to the NPOV policy of Wikipedia, and neither do the comments about Brahmin priests and christian preachers making their lives telling stories about the empirically unverifiable. Wikipedia is not the place to throw 'digs' at philosophies we don't care for and to categorize their proponents as preachers rather than philosophers.

I'm going to change these paragraphs to read

"Ravi Zacharias (full name Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, born 1946) is a Canadian-American Evangelical Protestant Christian philosopher, apologist and preacher.

Zacharias is a descendant of two rich religious traditions, first Hindu priests (of the Nambudiri Brahmin caste). and later Christian preachers. "

Unless someone can empirically verify that he is NOT a philosopher and apologist, or that somehow the title of preacher supercedes the title of philosopher and apologist which he lists in the 'about the author' section of his books, these edits should be more in line with the NPOV policy. Also the palpable dislike of religion has been removed and replaced with neutral terms. The fact that SOME religious beliefs and events are empirically unverifiable (while many are empirically verifiable) does not belong in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.101.168.46 (talk) 20:34, 1 February 2007 (UTC).