Taking on the idols
The mistranslation of the name Llano Estacado in English – Staked Plains – has been the cause for a number of fancy stories about this huge, flat, waterless, featureless desert the size of the state of Indiana, located in northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico. The name, of course, properly means Palisaded Plains. The plain is the largest mesa in […]
Read moreMichael Farris met with Romney in his campaign bus, and bragged about it on the HSLDA Facebook page. This is after months of violent criticisms against Romney for . . . well, for everything Romney deserves to be criticized by a Christian leader, which means everything. His choice of topics? Lyme disease. And also, some vague and non-confrontational topic like […]
Read more“I swear by God this sacred oath. . . .” “I swear . . . so help me God.” Boy, didn’t the Democrats give the Republican neocon propaganda machine a shovel-ready propaganda point by omitting God from their party platform. I read about 40-plus angry articles by neocon authors on the issue. (And I know I don’t even read a […]
Read more“Man must exercise dominion as he goes about his daily tasks. Even the hermit, who is not part of the economy’s division of labor – must plant, or hunt, or search for berries. He displaces other life. The animals fear him and give him deference, as a feature of life which was part of God’s reaffirmation of the covenant dominion […]
Read moreWe have all heard Paul’s words in Romans 13 concerning submission to governing authorities, but when does submission become sinful? Most Christians will go to direct commands given in the New testament of how the Christian should behave, but for some reason when government becomes the issue, those direct commands become reinterpreted to fit their own arbitrary circumstances. Sounds like […]
Read moreConservatism is a political philosophy which professes to be practical and grounded in reality – not ideological or utopian dream worlds – yet it cannot furnish a coherent answer to a very practical question: What is the proper punishment for a thief? John W. Robbins,”The Trouble with Conservatives,” Journal of Christian Reconstruction, Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1978 Earlier this […]
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