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The Legacy of the Two Evils
Debt Held by the Public: 16,183,759,171,869.69
Intragovernmental Holdings: 5,855,530,710,756.18
Total Public Debt Outstanding: 22,039,289,882,625.87
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(A)sexual: (A) Weird Documentary
I saw a very strange documentary recently: (A)sexual (directed by Angela Tucker, Arts Engine Inc., 2011). The premise of the film, which takes for granted the contemporary belief that people have innate sexual orientations (inclinations to have sex with persons … Continue reading
Conservative Abortion-Ban-Exception Delusions
(Last updated on 19 May 2016) Believing true what one wants to be true rather than what actually is true may be a less prevalent phenomenon among conservatives than liberals, but it is certainly not unknown among conservatives. For instance, … Continue reading
The Carson Option: Viable for Evangelicals?
I just read an interesting document, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and General Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s 2001 “Report of the International Theological Dialogue between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches” (hereafter, … Continue reading
Decorated Chaplain Wes Modder threatened by Navy – Take Action. If this post is a review, it may also appear, less nicely formatted and typically abridged, on such other sites as Amazon and GoodReads. If this post has odd gaps … Continue reading
Christian Bioethics: A Useful Survey
Mitchell, C. Ben, and D. Joy Riley. Christian Bioethics: A Guide for Pastors, Health Care Professionals, and Families. B&H Studies in Biblical Ethics. Daniel R. Heimbach, Series Editor. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2014. 207+xiv pages. ISBN 978-1-4336-7114-2.Christian Bioethics: A Guide for … Continue reading
Bitesize Rutherford Bio: Something to Chew On
Hannula, Richard M. Samuel Rutherford: Lover of Christ. Bitesize Biographies. Darlington, England: EP Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78397-018-6.Richard Hannula’s Samuel Rutherford Bitesize Biography is an excellent brief introduction to Rutherford’s life, thought, and place in history. Suitable either as an easy … Continue reading
A Month that Will Live in Infamy: October 2014 (Reflection on News in My Local Paper)
IntroductionHaving decided to waste no more effort sending letters to my local paper, the U-T San Diego, I’ve no longer needed to formulate quick responses to “the latest.” This has freed me to indulge my preference for prolonged reflection (also … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Random Commentary
Tagged bible, ethics | morality | law, news | current events, our doomed society, politics
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Consent: Only Repeated Yeses Will Do, Say State Lawmakers
Image: California State Capitol, courtesy Wikipedia user Coolcaesar (Creative Commons license). The local paper today informed me of my state’s passage of an interesting bill to formally define, in the context of sexual assault investigations on college campuses, what does … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
Tagged ethics | morality | law, news | current events, our doomed society, politics
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Pride, Parting in Sodom Diego
(Last updated on 31 October 2014) Main RemarksWell, I’ve been able to disprove the theory that my prior, somewhat-related letter only failed to make it into print because of U-T San Diego’s word limit (see also the follow-up letter I … Continue reading
Government as morality-corrupting, anti-Christian influence, San Diego County edition: El Cajon Library hosts celebration of sexual aberranceIf this post is a review, it may also appear, less nicely formatted and typically abridged, on such other sites as Amazon and GoodReads. … Continue reading
True Reason: Worth Thinking Your Way Through
(Last updated on 14 April 2014) Gilson, Tom, and Carson Weitnauer, editors. True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8254-4338-1. Abridged versions of this review may be found on Amazon and Goodreads. … Continue reading
Posted in Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Tagged apologetics, bible, bible and science, book reviews, church history, epistemology, ethics | morality | law, faith and reason, hermeneutics, impious thinking | unbelief, philosophy, pious thinking, presuppositionalism, scientific creationism, theology
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Protest Unwarranted: Robertson’s Remarks Were Just Ducky
(Last updated on 5 July 2018) No sooner had I recovered sufficiently from an illness to watch some news than I was greeted by a story highlighting once again the sorry state of our dieing culture. Members of the homosexual … Continue reading
Baffling Clash: Pro-Life Leaders v Donald J. Trump
Trump image by Michael Vadon, used under license (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.Today’s “Morning Jolt…with Jim Geraghty” e-mail (free from National Review) contains an interesting passage on the latest Donald Trump controversy. Here it is, as it appears in … Continue reading →