August 21, 2022
“The legal justification doesn’t pass constitutional muster. There seems to be no crime committed, only that the National Archives grew impatient over record retrieval.” — Matt Vespa, Townhall.com Shortly after the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month, I started collecting and reading relevant articles, so I could, of course, keep track of […]
Tags: Biden administration, Christopher Wray, declassified documents, FBI raid, harassment, Jonathan Turley, Mar-a-Lago raid, Merrick Garland, Mike Davis, National Archives, Newsweek article, out-of-control Dept. of Justice, political hit-squad, Presidential Records Act, questionable warrant, Trump estate, unfair treatment, weaponized DoJ
Posted in Politics |
August 14, 2022
“Here [pointing to new, blown-up photo from Voyager] is the Earth in a sunbeam. And you can see it; it is in fact less than a pixel in size. And, uh, this is where we live — on a blue dot. There is no evidence suggesting life anywhere else. For me, that underscores the rarity […]
Tags: advanced alien civilizations, astrophysics, Carl Sagan quote, Enrico Fermi, extraterrestrials, MIchael H. Hart, observation, scientific speculation, SETI, Stephen Webb, the Fermi Paradox, Where is the hard evidence for alien intelligences?
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
August 7, 2022
“Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths.” — Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609), Dutch theologian Most people with a little theological knowledge would have to think twice about putting the two words in this post’s title together. I mean, “Reformed” usually refers to Calvinism and the doctrines of […]
Tags: Arminian theology, Arminianism, Calvinism, Christ's priestly role, Classical Arminianism, F. Leroy Forlines, J. Matthew Pinson, Jacobus Arminius, libertarian-determinist debate, penal substitution, perseverence, personal election, Reformed theology, total depravity
Posted in Religion |
July 31, 2022
“We’re kind of the chimpanzee ‘fighting’ civilization. Some other civilization just may have a basically more peaceful personality, like bonobos do.” — Stuart Taylor, SETI astrophysicist The technology to send it isn’t in place yet, but JPL astrophysicist Jonathan Jiang and other researchers have already drafted a new message to broadcast to any alien intelligences […]
Tags: advanced alien civilizaton, asking aliens to help Earth, bonobos vs. chimpanzees, Jonathan Jiang, LiveScience, new technology, risking existence of humanity, sending new message into space, SETI, Stephanie Pappas, Stuart Taylor, too much information
Posted in Science, Uncategorized |
July 24, 2022
“LGBTQ Americans and those in interracial marriages deserve to have certainty that they will continue to have their right to equal marriage recognized, no matter where they live.” — Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader With the Dobbs v. Jackson (2022) decision overturning Roe v. Wade (1973) and returning the abortion issue to the […]
Tags: anti-miscegenation, Chip Roy, codifying into law, demands for segregation, Dobbs, DOMA, federalism, interracial marriage, Loving, miscegenation laws, moral equivalency, Obergefell, re-visiting SCOTUS decisions, redefining marriage, Respect for Marriage Act, returning authority to the States, RFMA, same-sex marriage, skin color is morally irrelevant, SSM, Trevor Noah, wokeness
Posted in Politics |
July 17, 2022
In earlier posts, I cited Voddie Baucham’s concerns regarding the growing “fault lines” within greater Evangelical Christianity due to the infiltration of Critical Race Theory, “social justice”, etc. Baucham explained what these ideas were, their unbiblical nature, and how they have manifested in “evangelical” churches across America. In this post, I present much of the […]
Tags: anti-biblical concepts, antiracism, biblical worldview, contend for the faith, critical theory, CRT, CSJ, Fault Lines, forgiveness, honest exegesis, incompatible with Christianity, multi-generational guilt and reparations, reject ethnic-based guilt, stand firm against woke ideology, systemic racism, true justice only from Christ, underlying assumptions, Voddie Baucham
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
July 10, 2022
This week I have a citation from the chapter titled “A New Canon” in Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines. In the chapter, Baucham discusses a list of books, articles, films, and social media platforms provided by Christianity Today ostensibly to “help move white people toward antiracism.” The list concerns him. So as not to be misunderstood, […]
Tags: 2 Timothy 3:17, anti-biblical concepts, antiracism, biblical worldview, cherished pluralism, Christianity Today, conservative perspective, critical theory, CRT, CSJ, Fault Lines, incompatible with Christianity, new antiracist canon, social justice, sufficiency of Scripture, systemic racism, underlying assumptions, Voddie Baucham
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
July 3, 2022
In case you are wondering, the titular question (or some form of it) is one of those that historic mythbusters like to test regular folk with. I don’t typically count myself as a “mythbuster”, but I do like trivia, and I thought this topic appropriate to address as we Americans celebrate Independence Day. Before answering […]
Tags: Articles of Confederation, Continental Congress, Cyrus Griffin, Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, George Washington, John Hancock, John Hanson, Peyton Randolph, president of Congress, President of the United States, Samuel Huntington, U.S. Constitution
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized |
June 26, 2022
Now that I’ve completed Voddie Baucham’s Fault Lines, I decided to share a few more excerpts that struck me as particularly instructive (and quotable). What follows is taken from the chapter titled, “A New Religion”. — — — “‘I am a racist. If you think the worst thing somebody can call you is a racist […]
Tags: Aaron Preston, anti-biblical concepts, antiracism, biblical worldview, conservative perspective, critical theory, crossroads in America, CRT, definitions of racism, Fault Lines, Ibram X. Kendi, incompatible with Christianity, institutional racism, Latasha Morrison, looming split within Evangelicals, redefining racism, Robin DiAngelo, social justice, Voddie Baucham
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
June 19, 2022
Please, don’t be taken in by Elon Musk’s charisma and rep as a high-tech visionary. Don’t get me wrong, Musk is a very bright and forward-thinking guy, even if a touch eccentric. I like and admire some of the projects Musk has spearheaded (e.g., SpaceX/StarLink), even if I find others to be ill-advised (e.g., The […]
Tags: abortion, cautious optimism, conservative, Elon Musk, free speech absolutism, gun control, LGBTQ+, libertarian, Michael Hammond, moderate, political labels, skepticism, Twitter, woke concerns
Posted in Politics |