November 3, 2024
“I’ll never turn to the dark side. You have failed, your highness.” — Luke Skywalker So-called “progressives” these days tend to see everything through a progressive lens. (That’s an optometry pun, by the way.) When they aren’t declaring innocent things (e.g., PBJ sandwiches) as racist or feminist or Nazi or whatever, they are claiming decades-old […]
Tags: Adam Bray, anti-establishment liberal, fandoms, George Lucas, origins of Star Wars, political analogs, political themes, progressivism, Robert Garcia, SFF franchises
Posted in Politics, S-F/F AA Entertainment |
October 27, 2024
“Like the proverbial frog slowly boiled to death for failing to detect the rising temperature of the water, we are sleepwalking toward tyranny.” — Joe Boot, Ruler of Kings I have cited twice before from Ruler of Kings: Toward a Christian Vision of Government, written by apologist, pastor, and cultural theologian Rev. Dr. Joseph Boot. […]
Tags: cultural battlefield, government bureaucracy, implications for political life and thought, Joe Boot, omni-competent vision of the state, overregulation, political views, question of authority, Ruler of Kings, societal influence, statism, the regulatory state, Western decline
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
October 20, 2024
“One thing that even the son of God can’t do. Even Jesus cannot override your unbelief.” — Steven Furtick, founder & pastor of Elevation Church We’re gonna do a little Biblical exegesis and theology today, folks! Some Bible teachers, particularly among (but not limited to) charismatics, use Mark 6:5 as evidence that Jesus Christ could […]
Tags: divine will, exegesis, false teaching, Grayson Gilbert, honor to the prophet, Justin Peters, Mark 6:5, miracles of Jesus, power of God, sloppy hermeneutics, Steven Furtick, unbelief
Posted in Religion |
October 13, 2024
I thought it might be fun to share a few of the YouTube channels that I go to for information in the areas that I typically blog about. In this case, in the “science and technology” arena. (However, I don’t think I’ve ever actually blogged on something I found on one of these channels.) In […]
Tags: Cleo Abram, cool tech, gadgets, innovative processes, inventions, Matt Ferrell, Military World, new technology, optimistic science, Sabine Hossenfelder, science news, scientific advances, TechZone
Posted in Science |
October 6, 2024
“Final authority resides only with the Author of all creation, who places human beings in His creation, made in His image, and subject to His Law-Word for all things. This is no less true in biology and history than in political science or theology.” — Joe Boot, Ruler of Kings I finished a book a […]
Tags: cultural battlefield, dualistic assumptions, Ezra Institute, heresy in the Church, implications for political life and thought, incoherence, inconsistent thinking, Jesus Christ, Joe Boot, need Scripture-centered orthodoxy, not only in traditionally church issues, opinion or system vs. Scripture, political views, question of authority, Ruler of Kings, societal influence, sovereignty and authority of the triune God
Posted in Politics, Politics & Religion, Religion |
September 29, 2024
“A bipartisan Senate report released Wednesday blasts the U.S. Secret Service for several significant failures that led to the near-fatal assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump in Butler County, Pennsylvania, over the summer.” — Casey Harper, The Center Square The interim report referenced in the above quote was released by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), […]
Tags: accumulation of errors, assassination attempt, Butler County, Casey Harper, Donald Trump, July 13 2024, Pennsylvania, presidential detail, Secret Service failure, Secret Service protection, Senate report, U.S. Secret Service
Posted in Politics |
September 22, 2024
One of the “evidences” for a young Earth that some Young Earth Creationists (YEC) like to present these days is the existence of paintings and carvings on stones (and maybe cave walls) that look a lot — or even just somewhat — like dinosaurs. (Or, at least, how dinosaurs are portrayed by modern artists. That’s […]
Tags: ancient art, carved stones, cave paintings, coincidental likeness, forgeries, fraud, Fuz Rana, human & dinosaur co-existence, Ica Stones, non-YEC explanations, petroglyph, reconstructions based on footprints and skeletal remains, stone paintings, YEC evidence
Posted in Religion, Science, Science & Religion |
September 15, 2024
“Even with a bill that they believe will or could be a successful end run around the tyranny of the federal judiciary, [those who passed the Texas ‘heartbeat’ bill] still chose to violate God’s law absent any even pragmatically compelling reason to do so. This is indicative of an addiction to compromise on the part […]
Tags: abolitionist, abolitionist claims about incrementalists, agreement on principle, ban abortion, Christian concerns, compromise, fight against abortion, flawed and unfair accusations, immediatist, inconsistent, incrementalist, James Silberman quote, limit the evil, pragmatic, pro-life, Scott Klusendorf, shared goal, The Case for Life, unnecessarily divisive
Posted in Politics, Religion |
September 8, 2024
“Do tariffs defy the laws of supply and demand and lift our standard of living?” — opening question in “Separating Tariff Facts from Tariff Fictions” by Erica York, Cato Institute Every once in awhile, the issue of tariffs comes up in the news. Even with my limited knowledge of economics and tariffs, I know that, […]
Tags: 2018–2019 tariffs on China, American consumer loses, Cato Institute, economics, Erica York, few-if-any benefits, import/export, not good for the economy, primer on tariffs, protectionism, Trump trade policy, U.S. v. China
Posted in Politics |
September 1, 2024
“These are the faces of women who died because they could not obtain safe and legal abortions. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, these pictures could include your daughter, sister, mother, best friend, granddaughter.” — found on home page (in 2005) for the website of the National Organization for Women (NOW) when Justice O’Connor announced […]
Tags: back street, bad arguments, Christopher Tietze, coat hanger, DANFORR, Greg Koukl, Kris Hamel, Mary Anne Warren, Mary Calderone, most illegal abortions are done by licensed physicians, NOW, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life, unmitigated nonsense
Posted in Politics, Politics / Science / Religion, Religion, Science |