by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 3, 2022 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary, Trinity Foundation Reviews
Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: The first set laments how anarchists dominate groups I formerly believed I could endorse. I desire a nation, states, and localities characterized by liberty, not anarchy. One group of liberty advocates who...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 22, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Pet Peeves, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Introductory Remarks: Culture Peace As Possible God, through the Apostle Paul, urges his people to, “as much as lieth” in them (that is, insofar as doing so lies within their control), “live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). For a while...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 31, 2022 | Activism (Petitions and Such), Book (& Other) Reviews, DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Welcome to the latest edition of the series formerly known as “prompted letters,” which chronicles my off-site correspondence with all and sundry. As will be noted in the Pious Eye “About” page when I get around to updating it, all posts on...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 4, 2021 | Activism (Petitions and Such), DMH Personal News, English Usage, In The News
Image: Christian Nationalist Libertarian © 2021 David M. Hodges, piouseye.com. Created by combining, modifying, and adding to public domain images obtained via goodfreephotos.com and publicdomainpictures.net. Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 9, 2019 | DMH Personal News, In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Introduction and Contents It’s time for another letter drop and general update. As has been the case in past “X prompts letters” posts, references to the “U-T” are to my local paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, referred to in various...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 26, 2019 | Book (& Other) Reviews, In The News, Random Commentary, Resources
Below: some preliminary remarks on a terminological issue related to a book in progress. The book: George Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (New York: Hachette Books, 2019). The issue: “This is a republic, not a democracy—let’s keep it that...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jul 15, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
Image: Mysterious galaxy abstract, released to the public domain by its creator, Lynn Greyling, through the Public Domain Pictures site. I’ve recently started reading an interesting book by Gerardus D. Bouw, PhD: Geocentricity: Christianity in the Woodshed...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 21, 2016 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
As it happens, my Reddit post was “removed [by a Reddit moderator] as it violate[d] Reddit‘s content policy with respect to personal and identifying information.” Since I am philosophically opposed to anonymous Internet posting (If you’re not...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 20, 2016 | Brief Notices, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) posted a comment to Reddit’s DebateReligion subreddit arguing that faith is not based on experience, evidence, or arguments, but that, rather, trust in the faculties that allow experience, evidence, and arguments depends on faith. To...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 18, 2016 | In The News, Random Commentary
I should note upfront that I am not an official representative of the Constitution Party. Nor have I run my ideas by any official representatives of that party. My reasons for preferring this party over the Libertarian Party are entirely my own. Partisans of either...