Here we go again - another case of discrimination towards Christian students has arisen in Great Britain. Apparently a student was told that her "purity" ring (worn to show her vow of chastity before marriage) violated the school dress code. She is fighting the order, claiming that her ring is a religious symbol of her faith. However, she is fighting the ruling also because Muslim and Sikh students in her school are allowed to wear their specific religious garb without a problem.
Britain's high court is now set to decide. I wonder what they'll say?
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Showing posts with label Christianity. Show all posts
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
Christian; Muslim; whatever!
Reality imitates satire.
The Episcopalian Church, the first church to lead the fight to ordain a gay pastor, is now admitting that one of their priests is a Muslim.
What?
Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she’s ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she’s also been a Muslim — drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved.
Right. I'm sure that it's no problem - only that Muslims deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Which was, last time I checked, quite important to Christianity. However, Chrisitanity is apparently not important to the Episcopalian Church.
The Episcopalian Church, the first church to lead the fight to ordain a gay pastor, is now admitting that one of their priests is a Muslim.
What?
Redding, who until recently was director of faith formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, has been a priest for more than 20 years. Now she’s ready to tell people that, for the last 15 months, she’s also been a Muslim — drawn to the faith after an introduction to Islamic prayers left her profoundly moved.
Right. I'm sure that it's no problem - only that Muslims deny the divinity of Jesus Christ. Which was, last time I checked, quite important to Christianity. However, Chrisitanity is apparently not important to the Episcopalian Church.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Response to a Tragedy
There are a number of ways to respond to the shock of a national calamity. The shootings at Virginia Tech have awakened us in many ways to the lack of morality and Godlessness we see in our everyday lives. Some on the Left have chosen to use this as the calling card for gun control, or the outright repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Some on the Right have taken the opportunity to decry the foolishness in supposed "gun-free zones" and the lack of personal responsibility required of young adults in America.
Some, such as David Skorton, the president of Cornell and former president of the University of Iowa, and Betty Trachtenberg, the dean of students at Yale, have use the tragedy to advance their idiotic notions of morality and justice. Skorton has made calls for the country to honor the "33rd victim," the murderer of innocents as "a member of our family." The dean of students at Yale has used the shootings at Virginia tech to ban all weapons from campus - including fake ones used in dramatic productions. She then amended the ban so that students could use "obviously fake" weapons such as wooden swords in productions.
What really needs to be done? We need a culture of intellectual discourse and defense. Physical defense will follow intellectual defense, but in so many ways our institutions of higher learning do nothing to teach responsibility and logical discourse in the name of "diversity," "multiculturalism," or "sensitivity." We need college students to understand that the institutions will not and can not protect them - not from physical harm or unwanted intellectual stimulus. Students are adults and claiming colleges can protect them is both untrue and unwise. Finally, we must be "realistic about reality" and acknowledge that "gun-free zones" and attacks on our rights as Americans to bear arms does nothing to secure ourselves or our students safety. CNN anchors that accuse the gun store proprietor of murder never questioned the fertilizer store owner who sold ammonium nitrate in Oklahoma City or blamed the presidential administration for Columbine. Crime will not be stopped by preventing citizens from arming themselves, because the law-breakers won't stop buying guns when it becomes illegal.
What response is necessary? Remember that you are responsible for yourself, and that you have only one comfort in life and in death.
Some, such as David Skorton, the president of Cornell and former president of the University of Iowa, and Betty Trachtenberg, the dean of students at Yale, have use the tragedy to advance their idiotic notions of morality and justice. Skorton has made calls for the country to honor the "33rd victim," the murderer of innocents as "a member of our family." The dean of students at Yale has used the shootings at Virginia tech to ban all weapons from campus - including fake ones used in dramatic productions. She then amended the ban so that students could use "obviously fake" weapons such as wooden swords in productions.
What really needs to be done? We need a culture of intellectual discourse and defense. Physical defense will follow intellectual defense, but in so many ways our institutions of higher learning do nothing to teach responsibility and logical discourse in the name of "diversity," "multiculturalism," or "sensitivity." We need college students to understand that the institutions will not and can not protect them - not from physical harm or unwanted intellectual stimulus. Students are adults and claiming colleges can protect them is both untrue and unwise. Finally, we must be "realistic about reality" and acknowledge that "gun-free zones" and attacks on our rights as Americans to bear arms does nothing to secure ourselves or our students safety. CNN anchors that accuse the gun store proprietor of murder never questioned the fertilizer store owner who sold ammonium nitrate in Oklahoma City or blamed the presidential administration for Columbine. Crime will not be stopped by preventing citizens from arming themselves, because the law-breakers won't stop buying guns when it becomes illegal.
What response is necessary? Remember that you are responsible for yourself, and that you have only one comfort in life and in death.
Tortured and Killed for being a Chrisitan
Yes, this type of things still happens in our world. Not only were Christian evangelists murdered by Islamic fanatics for distributing Christian literature in Turkey, they were also tortured first.
Why does this kind of story come out? To make an example of others who would choose the same path. An important difference to note: Muslim martyrs kill themselves to kill others. Christian martyrs die in order to save others.
Why does this kind of story come out? To make an example of others who would choose the same path. An important difference to note: Muslim martyrs kill themselves to kill others. Christian martyrs die in order to save others.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
The title says it all
"Chimps More Evolved than Humans"
Oh.
[Genetics researchers at the University of Michigan] found that substantially more genes in chimps evolved in ways that were beneficial than was the case with human genes.
You know, it became apparent during my recent flights to Florida and New York both the amazing technological skills and aspirations of the human race. I rode, for a small price, in a vehicle whose basic technology is barely a hundred years old that uses the atmosphere and physics to propel itself at hundreds of miles per hour through the sky from one destination to another.
I'm not sure if you've ever been in a plane as it flew through a thunderstorm, but it is another amazing experience. From the window I could see flashes of lighting: enormous discharges of static electricity that turn air into plasma that explodes in an instant causing a huge boom. This storm is capable of creating winds greater than any known force on Earth. It can cause rain to move up and down within the storm itself hundreds of time to form ice balls the size of a melon. A storm like this can also swat such an amazing piece of technology like an airplane out of the sky in a minute, which is why pilots and air traffic controllers avoid them.
The human innovation of flight is utterly under the constraints of nature, and of God. Not to mention the divine inspiration of humankind towards such an amazing idea as powered flight.
But it's good to think that scientists out there think that their theory of evolution means that humans are less "evolved" than an animal whose greatest technological aspirations are limited to poking a stick into an anthill. Next time the thunder rolls, remember your creator and the amazing things he has done. Or you can listen to the geneticists and hope that we still have more "evolving" to do.
Oh.
[Genetics researchers at the University of Michigan] found that substantially more genes in chimps evolved in ways that were beneficial than was the case with human genes.
You know, it became apparent during my recent flights to Florida and New York both the amazing technological skills and aspirations of the human race. I rode, for a small price, in a vehicle whose basic technology is barely a hundred years old that uses the atmosphere and physics to propel itself at hundreds of miles per hour through the sky from one destination to another.
I'm not sure if you've ever been in a plane as it flew through a thunderstorm, but it is another amazing experience. From the window I could see flashes of lighting: enormous discharges of static electricity that turn air into plasma that explodes in an instant causing a huge boom. This storm is capable of creating winds greater than any known force on Earth. It can cause rain to move up and down within the storm itself hundreds of time to form ice balls the size of a melon. A storm like this can also swat such an amazing piece of technology like an airplane out of the sky in a minute, which is why pilots and air traffic controllers avoid them.
The human innovation of flight is utterly under the constraints of nature, and of God. Not to mention the divine inspiration of humankind towards such an amazing idea as powered flight.
But it's good to think that scientists out there think that their theory of evolution means that humans are less "evolved" than an animal whose greatest technological aspirations are limited to poking a stick into an anthill. Next time the thunder rolls, remember your creator and the amazing things he has done. Or you can listen to the geneticists and hope that we still have more "evolving" to do.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
"Jesus Tomb" story bogus
No kidding?
This Discovery Channel special has been hit with criticism even before it was shown. It seems that filmmaker James Cameron was so desperate to prove Christianity wrong that he dove into a 20-year old already-solved mystery.
The entire documentary was based on Jewish ossuaries discovered in Jerusalem in 1980. The ossuaries were inscribed with "Jesus, son of Joseph," "Mary," Mariah," and "Judah, son of Jesus." The filmmakers used these names to attempt to prove that this was the tomb of Jesus, his parents, his "wife" Mary Magdalene (watching a little too much DaVinci Code?) and his "son" Judah.
Along with the initial criticism, (such as the common nature of those names in the first century) a number of other factual fallacies have come to light.
The statistics relating these three names was misstated.
The archaeologist who excavated the tombs opinion was ignored.
The ossuaries' names were mistranslated.
The DNA experty was misstated.
Pretty much the whole thing was crap.
This is just another attempt to "destroy" modern Christianity with forensic evidence. It isn't the first, nor will it be the last. It appears that some people are so guilty and concerned over the implications of Jesus' life on earth and his status as the Son of God they will do anything to try and prove these tenants false. I do take issue with one of other part of The Jerusalem Post article:
...as well as Christian leaders, who were angered over the documentary's contradictions of main tenets of Christianity.
Christians aren't arbitrarily "angered" over attempts at disproving Christianity; rather, we are supremely annoyed at factually and morally bankrupt attempts to disprove the Christian faith with shoddy archeology and lies. No one will ever be able to "disprove" Christianity (for good reason) and those who try will never face our anger - only our sympathy.
This Discovery Channel special has been hit with criticism even before it was shown. It seems that filmmaker James Cameron was so desperate to prove Christianity wrong that he dove into a 20-year old already-solved mystery.
The entire documentary was based on Jewish ossuaries discovered in Jerusalem in 1980. The ossuaries were inscribed with "Jesus, son of Joseph," "Mary," Mariah," and "Judah, son of Jesus." The filmmakers used these names to attempt to prove that this was the tomb of Jesus, his parents, his "wife" Mary Magdalene (watching a little too much DaVinci Code?) and his "son" Judah.
Along with the initial criticism, (such as the common nature of those names in the first century) a number of other factual fallacies have come to light.
The statistics relating these three names was misstated.
The archaeologist who excavated the tombs opinion was ignored.
The ossuaries' names were mistranslated.
The DNA experty was misstated.
Pretty much the whole thing was crap.
This is just another attempt to "destroy" modern Christianity with forensic evidence. It isn't the first, nor will it be the last. It appears that some people are so guilty and concerned over the implications of Jesus' life on earth and his status as the Son of God they will do anything to try and prove these tenants false. I do take issue with one of other part of The Jerusalem Post article:
...as well as Christian leaders, who were angered over the documentary's contradictions of main tenets of Christianity.
Christians aren't arbitrarily "angered" over attempts at disproving Christianity; rather, we are supremely annoyed at factually and morally bankrupt attempts to disprove the Christian faith with shoddy archeology and lies. No one will ever be able to "disprove" Christianity (for good reason) and those who try will never face our anger - only our sympathy.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
News Roundup 4/8/07
On the ABC's World News Tonight on Saturday the producers decided to follow up a story on the (century-record breaking) cold spell across the country with their new segment, "Going Green." This week on "Going Green?" "Fresh ideas for coping with the warming planet." Irony meter: off the charts.
Global warming realist Dr. Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT, reminds us all in Newsweek of the real science of global warming:
There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes.
Mark Steyn sums up the lessons of the British hostage crisis:
Even if it were true (which it's not) that Valerie Plame's crack commando units are rappelling down the walls of every presidential palace from Sudan to North Korea, in a media age what matters is not only what's going on behind the scenes but the scenes themselves. And scenes of British servicemen fawning on Ahmadinejad along with scenes of a headscarved Nancy Pelosi doing the same to Bashir Assad project a consistent message.
Finally, Christian cartoonist Johnny Hart, creator of the B.C. comic strip, died today. In an era of liberal anti-religious cartoons in newspapers, Hart was noted for the definitive Christian themes of his prehistoric characters. Banned by such old media outlets as the LA Times, it's only fitting that his death on Easter be remembered for one such inflammatory message too controversial for major national newspapers:
Picture yourself tied to a tree,
condemned of the sins of eternity.
Then picture a spear, parting the air,
seeking your heart to cut your despair.
Suddenly—a knight, in armor of white,
stands in the gap betwixt you and its flight,
And shedding his 'armor of God' for you—
bears the lance that runs him through.
His heart has been pierced that yours may beat,
and the blood of his corpse washes your feet.
Picture yourself in raiment white,
cleansed by the blood of the lifeless knight.
Never to mourn,
the prince who was downed,
For he is not lost! It is you who are found.
Global warming realist Dr. Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT, reminds us all in Newsweek of the real science of global warming:
There is no compelling evidence that the warming trend we've seen will amount to anything close to catastrophe. What most commentators—and many scientists—seem to miss is that the only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes.
Mark Steyn sums up the lessons of the British hostage crisis:
Even if it were true (which it's not) that Valerie Plame's crack commando units are rappelling down the walls of every presidential palace from Sudan to North Korea, in a media age what matters is not only what's going on behind the scenes but the scenes themselves. And scenes of British servicemen fawning on Ahmadinejad along with scenes of a headscarved Nancy Pelosi doing the same to Bashir Assad project a consistent message.
Finally, Christian cartoonist Johnny Hart, creator of the B.C. comic strip, died today. In an era of liberal anti-religious cartoons in newspapers, Hart was noted for the definitive Christian themes of his prehistoric characters. Banned by such old media outlets as the LA Times, it's only fitting that his death on Easter be remembered for one such inflammatory message too controversial for major national newspapers:
Picture yourself tied to a tree,
condemned of the sins of eternity.
Then picture a spear, parting the air,
seeking your heart to cut your despair.
Suddenly—a knight, in armor of white,
stands in the gap betwixt you and its flight,
And shedding his 'armor of God' for you—
bears the lance that runs him through.
His heart has been pierced that yours may beat,
and the blood of his corpse washes your feet.
Picture yourself in raiment white,
cleansed by the blood of the lifeless knight.
Never to mourn,
the prince who was downed,
For he is not lost! It is you who are found.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
News Roundup 4/7/07
The Social work academic program at Missouri State University got the worst evaluation its president has ever seen of a program. What alerted the administration that there was a problem? When a Christian student refused to complete an "assignment" to send a letter to the Missouri legislature requesting that gay couples be allowed to foster children.
The lovely and peaceful Iranians seemed to not have treated their British captives very humanely after all. In an attempt to violate as many provisions of the Geneva Convention as possible, they lined up the captives (bound and blindfolded), placed them against a wall, and faked their executions. How nice.
Finally, a lesson in media bias via Powerline blog. In one "news" story, the world's foremost expert on hurricanes becomes a mindless old coot "railing" and "out of the mainstream" when it comes to his criticism of Al Gore and global warming. Simply amazing.
The lovely and peaceful Iranians seemed to not have treated their British captives very humanely after all. In an attempt to violate as many provisions of the Geneva Convention as possible, they lined up the captives (bound and blindfolded), placed them against a wall, and faked their executions. How nice.
Finally, a lesson in media bias via Powerline blog. In one "news" story, the world's foremost expert on hurricanes becomes a mindless old coot "railing" and "out of the mainstream" when it comes to his criticism of Al Gore and global warming. Simply amazing.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
An interesting question
Powerline asks the question of why the old media, such as the NY Times, seem to be obsessed with debunking Judeo-Christian religions?
We're all still waiting for similar attacks on Islam.
Still waiting.
We're all still waiting for similar attacks on Islam.
Still waiting.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Christian Discrimination
My alma mater evidently does not like pesky Christians very much.
Now the LGBTAA group is protesting the new Student Organization Recognition Policy. Nevermind that they expressly stated before that they were not opposed to Christian organizations.
However, the fact that the paper claims that the policy will allow Christian groups to discriminate based on race is just preposterous. Not to mention that the groups have said all are welcome to their meetings - they only want to limit executive offices to those they believe are in good Christian standing - which excludes practicing homosexuals.
The Iowa State Daily is wrong here - and should be embarrassed at the presentation of their biases and false characterizations.
Now the LGBTAA group is protesting the new Student Organization Recognition Policy. Nevermind that they expressly stated before that they were not opposed to Christian organizations.
The proposal would grant religious organizations the right to limit membership on the basis of shared beliefs and goals.
They will also be able to adopt a non-discrimination statement that is consistent with those beliefs and goals, allowing those groups to automatically exclude people on the basis of their sexual orientation as well as race, sex, age, religious affiliation, color, marital status and disability.
I thought that the "slippery slope" argument doesn't hold up? The fact that the LGBTAA group is protesting is not too noteworthy - any attempt to battle those darn dominant Christians is worth the fight.However, the fact that the paper claims that the policy will allow Christian groups to discriminate based on race is just preposterous. Not to mention that the groups have said all are welcome to their meetings - they only want to limit executive offices to those they believe are in good Christian standing - which excludes practicing homosexuals.
The Iowa State Daily is wrong here - and should be embarrassed at the presentation of their biases and false characterizations.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Political Roundup: 11/29/06
Genius statesman Chuck Schumer is claiming that an entire train of political thought is now finished: he says Reaganism is dead. Quick! Somebody tell the Republicans!
Insane Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad sent the US people another letter today. His message? Convert to Islam or die.
A "Christian" theologian in Tennessee said today at a conference that Christian need to live peacefully with Muslims and Jews. How? By rejecting that little notion that Jesus Christ is the son of God. You know, for peace...
The shrill of bogus news stories is becoming louder and louder. Contesting the Associated Press' lies about murders by burning in Iraq is claimed by an AP spokesman to be "ludicrous." If only their one single source was who he says he is...
The only real civil war in the world currently happening, the French civil war, is reaching new heights. Muslims now control over 700 districts within Paris.
Virginia must be proud of their Senator-elect James Webb, for avoiding the President at a state function, and then insulting him with anti-war gibberish.
Insane Iranian dictator Ahmadinejad sent the US people another letter today. His message? Convert to Islam or die.
A "Christian" theologian in Tennessee said today at a conference that Christian need to live peacefully with Muslims and Jews. How? By rejecting that little notion that Jesus Christ is the son of God. You know, for peace...
The shrill of bogus news stories is becoming louder and louder. Contesting the Associated Press' lies about murders by burning in Iraq is claimed by an AP spokesman to be "ludicrous." If only their one single source was who he says he is...
The only real civil war in the world currently happening, the French civil war, is reaching new heights. Muslims now control over 700 districts within Paris.
Virginia must be proud of their Senator-elect James Webb, for avoiding the President at a state function, and then insulting him with anti-war gibberish.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Quote of the Day
All dominant powers are hated -- Britain was, and Rome -- but they're usually hated for the right reasons. America is hated for every reason. The fanatical Muslims despise America because it's all lap-dancing and gay porn; the secular Europeans despise America because it's all born-again Christians hung up on abortion; the anti-Semites despise America because it's controlled by Jews. Too Jewish, too Christian, too godless, America is George Orwell's Room 101: whatever your bugbear you will find it therein; whatever you're against, America is the prime example of it.
-Mark Steyn by way of RWN.
-Mark Steyn by way of RWN.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Discrimination
So it begins again.
The only problem is with the pesky Student Organization Recognition Policy:
Recognized organizations shall not practice discrimination: “
Inquiries can be directed to the Director of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, 3680 Beardshear Hall, (515) 294-7612.” (Reaffirmed on July 1, 2005: http://www.hrs.iastate.edu/AAO/reaffirmation.pdf) The university will make reasonable accommodation to those student organizations that are formed to foster or affirm the sincerely held religious beliefs of its members and request to adopt a non-discrimination statement limits membership and participation in their student organization to students who, upon individual inquiry, affirm that they support the organizations goals and agree with its beliefs.
This policy wisely makes exceptions for religious groups as it should. Need I even say that this would never happen to a Muslim religious group?
Saturday, October 07, 2006
NBC - smart enough?
As I reported earlier, in a desperate attempt to get children to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings again, NBC had to stoop to the level of asking Christian-themed cartoon creator Phil Vischer if they could use his wildly popular Veggie-Tales show. NBC allowed the show to air - just so long as Phil removed any and all references to God, which infiltrate the original Veggie-Tales.
Well, I watched the show today, and I see that we will have to wait and see if NBC is smart enough to realize they have been dooped. Mr. Vischer has stated many times that true morality can only come from the Bible - hence his Christian cartoon series. In today's particular episode of Veggi-Tales, Larry the Cucumber is told that to keep his "super hero" identity, he must learn that "those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." This phrase comes from the "Super Hero Handbook" in the show, but what the NBC producers (sadly) probably don't know is that is of course a verse from the Bible.
I have a feeling that all of the NBC veggie cartoons will be like this, and I have a feeling that once NBC figures it out, they will be off the air.
God forbid children learn about God from TV.
Well, I watched the show today, and I see that we will have to wait and see if NBC is smart enough to realize they have been dooped. Mr. Vischer has stated many times that true morality can only come from the Bible - hence his Christian cartoon series. In today's particular episode of Veggi-Tales, Larry the Cucumber is told that to keep his "super hero" identity, he must learn that "those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." This phrase comes from the "Super Hero Handbook" in the show, but what the NBC producers (sadly) probably don't know is that is of course a verse from the Bible.
I have a feeling that all of the NBC veggie cartoons will be like this, and I have a feeling that once NBC figures it out, they will be off the air.
God forbid children learn about God from TV.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Free Speech... unless you're a Christian
Today the infamous 9th circuit of appeals ruled that a Christian group can't hold prayer meetings in a San Fransisco public library.
Rather than authorize a standard set of meeting room reservation requirements, the 9th circuit decided to ignore the 1st amendment and disallow Christians their right to use a public space. It's clear that if it was any other religious organization (especially Muslims) the federal courts would never rule against their ability to worship.
Further, the court claims to support the sketchy "separation of church and state;" not to stop the church from controlling state decisions, but instead they are using the state to stop the worshipping of the church.
Only in San Fransisco - and only from the 9th circuit.
Rather than authorize a standard set of meeting room reservation requirements, the 9th circuit decided to ignore the 1st amendment and disallow Christians their right to use a public space. It's clear that if it was any other religious organization (especially Muslims) the federal courts would never rule against their ability to worship.
Further, the court claims to support the sketchy "separation of church and state;" not to stop the church from controlling state decisions, but instead they are using the state to stop the worshipping of the church.
Only in San Fransisco - and only from the 9th circuit.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Jimmah! Again!
Does anyone remember the days when former Presidents refused to criticize sitting Presidents? You should - because it was an American precedent stretching back to George Washington. However, it ended abruptly over the past year or so when Democratic former Presidents, whether out of a desire to get themselves into the papers or to support their estranged wife's Presidential aspirations, have begun to insult the administration at every possibility. There was a time when this was unthinkable - now it's common practice.
Jimmah says the administration is "immoral." Let's hear a few of Jimmah's talking points:
Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis.
Ah - indeed! Preemptive peace instead of preemptive war! Is that what John Kennedy did in Vietnam? No... Is that what Ronald Reagan did in Nicaragua and Grenada? Is that what Jimmah did in his own attempted invasion of Iran?
Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this.
Translation - George W. Bush is a Christian. And he tells people. And he prays. Scary.
The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.
The typical lefty lie - Republicans tax the poor, and give breaks to the rich! Although, I doubt that Jimmah would say that Bush is the first administration to do this - according to Jimmah and Democrats in general, this is how all conservatives work. After all - we're all rich, right?
I'm done after this one:
The fundamentalists believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant. Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this administration, for instance, has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them -- which is also a radical departure from past history. So these are the kinds of things that cause me concern.
Did you get all that? Fundamentalists are the same everywhere - Christians and Muslims. Moral equivalency alert! Because, of course, Christian fundamentalists disagree with you and Muslim ones... kill you?
By the way, fundamentalists believe that those who disagree with them are inferior "sub-humans," and will therefore not negotiate with these people because negotiation will imply equality? And then Jimmah goes on to say that the Bush administration "refuses to talk" to someone who disagrees with them. Jimmah has just said that the Bush administration is just as dangerously fundamental as Islamic terrorists, and believes that if you are a liberal you are inferior and "sub-human." Is this man serious? Or sane?
Unfortunately, after Sept., there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism...
Darn that pesky patriotism. Maybe Jimmah should think that statement through a bit more...
As you possibly know, historically, our country has had the capability of self-correcting our own mistakes. This applied to slavery in 1865, it applied to legal racial segregation a hundred years later or so. It applied to the Joe McCarthy era when anti-communism was in a fearsome phase in the country like terrorism now.
McCarthy-ism = terrorism. Don't you see? This whole "terrorism" threat is just as important as opposing your friendly neighborhood Marxist.
Jimmah is fast approaching his intellectual expiration date. Not only has he made a mockery of the US worldwide, it's quite possible that his fantastically failed policies of the middle east resulted in the revolution of Iran and the continuing crisis there. Do you think that he will admit his monstrous mistake? The American people admitted theirs - in 1980.
Jimmah says the administration is "immoral." Let's hear a few of Jimmah's talking points:
Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis.
Ah - indeed! Preemptive peace instead of preemptive war! Is that what John Kennedy did in Vietnam? No... Is that what Ronald Reagan did in Nicaragua and Grenada? Is that what Jimmah did in his own attempted invasion of Iran?
Another very serious departure from past policies is the separation of church and state, which I describe in the book. This has been a policy since the time of Thomas Jefferson and my own religious beliefs are compatible with this.
Translation - George W. Bush is a Christian. And he tells people. And he prays. Scary.
The other principle that I described in the book is basic justice. We've never had an administration before that so overtly and clearly and consistently passed tax reform bills that were uniquely targeted to benefit the richest people in our country at the expense or the detriment of the working families of America.
The typical lefty lie - Republicans tax the poor, and give breaks to the rich! Although, I doubt that Jimmah would say that Bush is the first administration to do this - according to Jimmah and Democrats in general, this is how all conservatives work. After all - we're all rich, right?
I'm done after this one:
The fundamentalists believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant. Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this administration, for instance, has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them -- which is also a radical departure from past history. So these are the kinds of things that cause me concern.
Did you get all that? Fundamentalists are the same everywhere - Christians and Muslims. Moral equivalency alert! Because, of course, Christian fundamentalists disagree with you and Muslim ones... kill you?
By the way, fundamentalists believe that those who disagree with them are inferior "sub-humans," and will therefore not negotiate with these people because negotiation will imply equality? And then Jimmah goes on to say that the Bush administration "refuses to talk" to someone who disagrees with them. Jimmah has just said that the Bush administration is just as dangerously fundamental as Islamic terrorists, and believes that if you are a liberal you are inferior and "sub-human." Is this man serious? Or sane?
Unfortunately, after Sept., there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism...
Darn that pesky patriotism. Maybe Jimmah should think that statement through a bit more...
As you possibly know, historically, our country has had the capability of self-correcting our own mistakes. This applied to slavery in 1865, it applied to legal racial segregation a hundred years later or so. It applied to the Joe McCarthy era when anti-communism was in a fearsome phase in the country like terrorism now.
McCarthy-ism = terrorism. Don't you see? This whole "terrorism" threat is just as important as opposing your friendly neighborhood Marxist.
Jimmah is fast approaching his intellectual expiration date. Not only has he made a mockery of the US worldwide, it's quite possible that his fantastically failed policies of the middle east resulted in the revolution of Iran and the continuing crisis there. Do you think that he will admit his monstrous mistake? The American people admitted theirs - in 1980.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Christianity is Dangerous
Or so the Motion Picture Association of America thinks. They just slapped a PG rating on a family Christian movie made by two church pastors in Georgia. They claim that the movie, which describes a high school coach struggling with his faith and receiving affirmative responses to his prayer:
...contained strong 'thematic elements' that might disturb some parents...
and also the MPAA:
decided that the movie was heavily laden with messages from one religion and that this might offend people from other religions. It's important that they used the word 'proselytizing' when they talked about giving this movie a PG...
This is a whole new low for the MPAA and for common sense vs. political correctness. It's not like a child seeing a positive view of Christianity is ever "disturbing," or that supporting one religion is "offensive" towards another. How many movies have the mass murderer quoting the Bible as he kills?
This is like having a "Viewer Discretion is Advised" warning before Touched by an Angel.
...contained strong 'thematic elements' that might disturb some parents...
and also the MPAA:
decided that the movie was heavily laden with messages from one religion and that this might offend people from other religions. It's important that they used the word 'proselytizing' when they talked about giving this movie a PG...
This is a whole new low for the MPAA and for common sense vs. political correctness. It's not like a child seeing a positive view of Christianity is ever "disturbing," or that supporting one religion is "offensive" towards another. How many movies have the mass murderer quoting the Bible as he kills?
This is like having a "Viewer Discretion is Advised" warning before Touched by an Angel.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
No One Wants to See it
and it's George Bush's Fault.
Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2 (now doing horribly at the box office) blames the fall of his most recent movie on none other than President Bush:
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."
Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fueled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?"'
These comments are really too silly to be commented on. My only sadness is that Nick Meyer directed two great Star Trek movies, and I hadn't thought (before now) that he was a raging, excuse-mongering idiot.
Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2 (now doing horribly at the box office) blames the fall of his most recent movie on none other than President Bush:
"Anything that is erotic has been banned in the United States," said the Dutch native. "Look at the people at the top (of the government). We are living under a government that is constantly hammering out Christian values. And Christianity and sex have never been good friends."
Scribe Nicholas Meyer, who was an uncredited writer on 1987's seminal sex-fueled cautionary tale "Fatal Attraction," agrees, noting that the genre's downfall coincides with the ascent of the conservative political movement.
"We're in a big puritanical mode," he said. "Now, it's like the McCarthy era, except it's not 'Are you a communist?' but 'Have you ever put sex in a movie?"'
These comments are really too silly to be commented on. My only sadness is that Nick Meyer directed two great Star Trek movies, and I hadn't thought (before now) that he was a raging, excuse-mongering idiot.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Liberals vs. C.S. Lewis
One of my favorite Lefty websites, the Democratic Underground, has an article posted today that's supposed to reach out to all the conservatives that roam their website. In the DU's attempt to appeal to Christian conservatives, the writer of the post makes this startling statement:
Being a liberal isn't about making fun of God, or your beliefs about him. Most liberals take the Sermon on the Mount to heart. They try to live the teachings of Jesus, even if some aren't sure he's really the Son of God.
I hope that this particular DUer isn't speaking for too many liberals. Some people like to conveniently argue Christianity away with a new definition of Jesus. Muslims commonly do it, and occasionally Jews as well. Some other world religions would like it a lot more if Jesus were just a "good guy." In the words of one of my professors last semester, Jesus was just a "radical social activist" so it's great to follow his teachings and not really worry bout being a Christian.
The problem with this mindset is clearly articulated by C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity. Lewis famously points out the inherent impossibility between Jesus as being a "good guy" without being the Son of God.
You see, Jesus said on numerous occasions that he is the Son of God, that he came from God, that he has the ability to forgive sins, and that God is his Father. In short, Jesus said many times in many ways that he was the Son of God. If that is true, Jesus was everything he says he is. However, if Jesus is not the Son of God then he either 1)lied about it or 2) was insane. You see, if he knew he wasn't really the Son of God and still told people he was he is a liar and a deceiver, and is therefore an evil person because of the masses that have come to believe in him. If he truly thought he was the Son of God and was actually wrong, he instead is insane by continuing to tell people he was someone he was not.
Jesus was either a 1)Good Man (the Son of God) 2)bad man, or 3)mad man. He can't be good and not be the Christ. Just a point of clarification...
Being a liberal isn't about making fun of God, or your beliefs about him. Most liberals take the Sermon on the Mount to heart. They try to live the teachings of Jesus, even if some aren't sure he's really the Son of God.
I hope that this particular DUer isn't speaking for too many liberals. Some people like to conveniently argue Christianity away with a new definition of Jesus. Muslims commonly do it, and occasionally Jews as well. Some other world religions would like it a lot more if Jesus were just a "good guy." In the words of one of my professors last semester, Jesus was just a "radical social activist" so it's great to follow his teachings and not really worry bout being a Christian.
The problem with this mindset is clearly articulated by C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity. Lewis famously points out the inherent impossibility between Jesus as being a "good guy" without being the Son of God.
You see, Jesus said on numerous occasions that he is the Son of God, that he came from God, that he has the ability to forgive sins, and that God is his Father. In short, Jesus said many times in many ways that he was the Son of God. If that is true, Jesus was everything he says he is. However, if Jesus is not the Son of God then he either 1)lied about it or 2) was insane. You see, if he knew he wasn't really the Son of God and still told people he was he is a liar and a deceiver, and is therefore an evil person because of the masses that have come to believe in him. If he truly thought he was the Son of God and was actually wrong, he instead is insane by continuing to tell people he was someone he was not.
Jesus was either a 1)Good Man (the Son of God) 2)bad man, or 3)mad man. He can't be good and not be the Christ. Just a point of clarification...
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Hi George!
My token lefty websites are hilarious tonight. Check out this post from the Democratic Underground:
The point is that I don’t feel safe anymore to freely speak my mind. There is no reason that I should feel this way, other than the facts that a) I am a liberal Democrat, b) I oppose this administration’s policies, and c) at any given moment, the NSA might be listening.
So he's a navy officer, and he feels like he can't speak his mind because the NSA might be listening!
Are you kidding me? Did you ever go to college? Do you have a Master's Degree?
Let me tell you the most politically hostile environment in the country - the higher education system. I have to make an active attempt to interrupt and correct my colleagues, professors, and undergraduate students that regularly talk of George Bush as an "idiot," the Supreme Court as "in danger," and conservatives as racist morons.
I feel concerned to express my opinion every day and in every class because my colleagues and professors literally think I am an idiotic fundamentalist racist Christian who thinks all gay people should be killed on sight. We have a liberal Navy officer thinking that the government cares what he says? I work in a field that employs individuals so radically left that they are unemployable in the public sector!
Liberals - cut out the paranoid lines. They're a joke, and they ignore the obvious and simple regular hostility towards conservatives. In 2008 if Democratic election offices are broken into and conservatives' houses defaced I'll believe liberal paranoia. Until then, I'll occasionally keep my politics out of the classroom so that I can graduate.
The point is that I don’t feel safe anymore to freely speak my mind. There is no reason that I should feel this way, other than the facts that a) I am a liberal Democrat, b) I oppose this administration’s policies, and c) at any given moment, the NSA might be listening.
So he's a navy officer, and he feels like he can't speak his mind because the NSA might be listening!
Are you kidding me? Did you ever go to college? Do you have a Master's Degree?
Let me tell you the most politically hostile environment in the country - the higher education system. I have to make an active attempt to interrupt and correct my colleagues, professors, and undergraduate students that regularly talk of George Bush as an "idiot," the Supreme Court as "in danger," and conservatives as racist morons.
I feel concerned to express my opinion every day and in every class because my colleagues and professors literally think I am an idiotic fundamentalist racist Christian who thinks all gay people should be killed on sight. We have a liberal Navy officer thinking that the government cares what he says? I work in a field that employs individuals so radically left that they are unemployable in the public sector!
Liberals - cut out the paranoid lines. They're a joke, and they ignore the obvious and simple regular hostility towards conservatives. In 2008 if Democratic election offices are broken into and conservatives' houses defaced I'll believe liberal paranoia. Until then, I'll occasionally keep my politics out of the classroom so that I can graduate.
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