The church has always been riven by various controversies, from the earliest ones over weighty theological matters to the recent ones over… well, all kinds of things you wouldn’t expect to be controversial. In my lifetime, just speaking of Christianity in the American South, there have been major feuds over whether the Bible is true, [...]
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Work with me here. Suppose it’s 1942, and many Japanese still worshipped Emperor Hirohito as a god. And suppose the Japanese decided to open up a temple of Hirohito worship a couple of blocks from Pearl Harbor — in the name of religious understanding, of course.
Do you suppose America would have allowed that? Would we [...]
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Doug Wilson does a superb job of explaining why America needs a living Savior instead of the menagerie of gods offered by the prevailing secularism. Islam, in contrast to secularism, makes transcendent claims about its deity. It does not matter that no actual Allah exists, says Wilson, because secularism’s response is to walk away from [...]
Duh.
Vaughn Walker, publicly known homosexual and federal judge, ruled in favor of his own personal interests by striking down California’s constitutional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. He obviously should have let a disinterested judge rule on the case. Did anyone honestly expect good judicial ethics from a guy like [...]
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The Bible tells the story of a man named Sheba and his confederates who rebelled against King David (2 Sam 20:1-22). David’s forces under Joab defeated the rebellion, then Joab went after Sheba personally. Sheba fled to a distant city called Abel of Beth-maachah with Joab in hot pursuit. Upon arriving, Joab’s army began battering [...]
Peter Hitchens gives an account of what people become when God is expunged from their lives. Visiting two cities, Moscow under the Soviets and Mogadishu under the Moslems, made him realize the surpassing value of Christianity’s influence on civil society in the West, an influence we are in jeopardy of losing. Read his excellent article [...]
Accused drugging/raping/pedophile Roman Polanski has been released by the Swiss. The one consolation is that he will be staying in Europe where one is compelled to suppose that such things are better tolerated. You have to wonder what the motives of the Swiss might have been. What is this guy to them? On the other [...]
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Islam has constituted itself the mortal enemy of my God, my country, and my liberty. It has a religious motive which it cannot permanently compromise. Peace is possible only if they get redeemed or we get conquered. Placing a mosque at the site of the World Trade Center is an act of conquest celebrating the [...]
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You may not recognize the name of Afshan Azad. She’s the actress who plays Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” movies. Azad’s father and brother have been arrested for assaulting her in her home during an argument over her relationship with a Hindu man. If this were any religion other than Islam, and if Islamic [...]
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The homosexuals in Spain are banning the Jews from their gay pride parade. It’s odd on so many levels. The Israelis are pretty liberal on this issue, if I understand it right. Their enemies, the Moslems, would execute the homosexuals if they could, even though homosexuality is common in Moslem countries partly because heterosexual relations [...]
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No, he didn’t call it that exactly, but that’s the deal. You’re supposed to celebrate sodomy all month long according to Mr. Obama. Check it out on the White House web site.
This is a man who has lost his moral bearings. We need to pray for him to recover them.
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Eschatology is the study of last things. In the Christian religion, eschatology includes the study of how the world will end, final judgment, heaven, and hell. Our view of the end of the world is that Christ will return to this world, judge the living and the dead, and we’ll eventually enter the eternal state [...]
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Nancy Pelosi, the same Nancy Pelosi who voted in favor of partial birth infanticide, says she is governed by “the Word” in her decisions as a member of Congress.
There was no uproar from the atheistic left, and we are led to explain the unexpected dearth of outcry which would greet the identical pronouncement from, say, [...]
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According to this report published at nbcnewyork.com, New York City has decided to go ahead with plans to build a very large mosque near Ground Zero. Apparently there was high intensity opposition which got ignored. It seems to me that the lesson learned is that if you elect leftist rulership, you’ll get leftist outcomes. Duh. [...]
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Linked from Al Mohler’s blog, a Christian preacher has been arrested in London’s Hyde Park for publicly preaching that homosexuality is a sin, or as the preacher put it, “a crime against the creator.” Follow the link to Mohler’s site where he quotes from the U.K.’s Telegraph. Mohler’s comments are right on the money, too. [...]
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