Comments for A View from the Altar

Comment on IBM’s possible EV battery by Bro. Steve

Bro. Steve — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:26:42 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Bert, but what you’re describing is a very small niche market. If you live in Peachtree City, GA, for example, that niche is already being filled by actual golf carts. Here in Florida, there are lots of little golf-oriented retirement communities where, again, the niche is being filled for a tenth the cost of an EV. For Big Blue to make it to market with this thing, which I sincerely hope the do, they’ve got to enlarge the niche, and that requires extending the range and cutting the recharge times. Just my opinion.

Comment on IBM’s possible EV battery by Bert Bigelow

Bert Bigelow — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:33:33 +0000

Your list of conditions for success of the IBM battery is excessive and unrealistic.
Recharge times do NOT have to be under ten minutes.
EV’s are an urban transportation vehicle…in most cases a second car used for commuting and neighborhood errands. If it will recharge overnight that will be satisfactory for most users.
Weather and altitude extremes are also irrelevant for much of the country. It’s an URBAN SHORT HAUL vehicle, folks. Stop trying to make it capable of cross-country trips to the arctic circle. Maybe it doesn’t work in Minnesota or Colorado. OK, there is a huge market for it in the southern half of the US.

Comment on OMG! OMG! What if the fundies are right? by amy

amy — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:12:15 +0000

As always, well said.

Isn’t it interesting that Johnson, as many of us do, when confronted with sin first ask, how can I reconcile _____ with Scripture? We seek first to comfort ourselves rather than seeking first the Kingdom of God.

Comment on Free thinkers? Maybe not by Bro. Steve

Bro. Steve — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:45:34 +0000

Thanks, Amy. I’d give attribution if I could recall who said this, but true love seeks to bind and to be bound. It’s an expression of the covenantal nature of our God that love must work in a covenantal relation, and convenants require holiness and righteousness in order to experience what God intends for his creatures. Obviously, then, a homosexual relationship which is founded on unrighteousness, if it endures at all, is forever stuck with what is low, base, degrading.

Comment on Free thinkers? Maybe not by Amy

Amy — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:42:49 +0000

Thanks, Steve, for your ever-present voice of reason and truth. You’ve touched on something that’s been stewing with me for at least 4 weeks now and that I wish to write about. Something along the lines of “Love Without Authority” because I’ve been in several unrelated conversations with regard to homosexuality lately. As you know, there is the sense that love conquers all… but modern man wants that love without any constraints upon him, no law or morality to govern him, believing solely in his own authority. Their voice says, why can’t you christians love and embrace homosexuality? Is it so hard not to judge and just accept people? But love cannot be divorced from truth… their reasoning is so unfounded, just as you wrote earlier regarding the Penn State mess…

Anyway, all this rambling to say thank you for your wisdom and for spurring me on to write something regarding modern man’s definition of love.

Comment on The Sandusky affair by Bro. Steve

Bro. Steve — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:04:52 +0000

“Living in the void” is a good way to express that. I’ll have to pilfer your phrase!

Comment on The Sandusky affair by Amy

Amy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:54:05 +0000

Amen. I hope at least ONE secular man reads your blog, Steve, because I don’t think secular man EVER asks these questions. Secular man is rather good at living in the void.

Comment on Why I won’t be voting for Mitt by Bro. Steve

Bro. Steve — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:06:19 +0000

Well maybe Herman will read and heed. Who knows? I might get a campaign job!

Comment on Why I won’t be voting for Mitt by H K Reed

H K Reed — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:24:08 +0000

I copied this into an email to the Herman Cain organization.

hkr

Comment on Government Motors by Bill

Bill — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:14:09 +0000

That’s okay. Back when the government was in negotiations with GM, I heard Obama say on TV that if anything went wrong with a GM car, he would fix it. I hope he’s a better mechanic than president…