Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Doesn't the person admonishing someone they shouldn't bother getting married because the Lord is on the verge of return actually have the more questionable theology than the person momentarily upset by the rebuke realizing that they might not have the opportunity to get married? Then why hasn't that person been the subject of repeated giggles and ridicule over the course of a sermon series? A bit incredulous for the chronologically advanced who've pretty much already gotten what they wanted from life to chewout the young for being less than enthusiastic about the End.

Isn't it hypocritical for Glenn Beck to denounce attack ads? His entire TV show is nearly one continious attack ad. What was week after week of exposing Van Jones and the like? As John Stossel pointed out, it is only through the attack ads that voters learn anything of actually substance.

Precognitive Cephalopod Fails To Predict Own Demise

Lessons In Apologetics #5: Deism

The tests or methodologies of epistemology are just the first step into the realm of Apologetics. These, in turn are applied to the assorted worldviews.

The first worldview examined will be Deism. As with Christianity, Deism believes that God created the universe and set it up to operate in accord with a system of natural laws both physical and moral that are discoverable by mankind. What sets Deism apart from Christianity is the extent to which each believes God intervenes in the affairs of both nature and man.

Often, Deism is described as the watchmaker view of God. Those holding to this view believe that, while God created the world and set it into motion, the natural laws He established were so comprehensive that God no longer intervenes in or on His creation’s behalf. This assumption puts it at odds with orthodox Biblical theology on a number of points.

As a system, it could be said that Deism served as a transitional set of beliefs between two great epochs of Western intellectual history. Following the upheaval of religious conflicts such as the Thirty Years War, in a sense Deism was a recoil to the horrors of dogma that had been exorcised of the doctrines of compassion and moderation.

Deism also softened the shock to those wanting to turn their backs on a Biblically-based understanding of life but not yet ready to embrace the rampant secularism characterizing the more recent contemporary era. Deism was also the end product of the scholastic undertakings of the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration whereby European thinkers had to come to grips with the realization that a world, a goodly portion of it consisting of cultures as at least as complex as their's, existed beyond the borders of Christendom.

The Father of English Deism was Herbert of Cherbury. In his book “On Truth“, Herbert established the following principles as common to all men: that there is one supreme God, that he ought to be worshipped, that virtue and piety are the chief parts of worship, that we ought to be sorry for our sins, and that a divine goodness dispenses rewards and punishments both in this life and the hereafter (153).

At a quick glance, the list does not appear all that controversial and there is not much there the orthodox Christian would disagree with. However, it is what is not on the list that Deists following after Herbert of Cherbury expanded upon that brought this worldview's anti-Christian underpinnings to full fruition for all the world to see.

One thinker that most have at least a cursory knowledge of connected to Deism was John Locke. According to Geisler, Locke in “The Reasonableness Of Christianity” endorsed the Deist unitarian view of God and denied the deity of Christ.

Among early Deists, the average Christian would really have to be on their toes to detect the subtle attacks against the faith. Often then the attacks were carefully aimed at other religious systems rather than directly on the Bible itself. However, as society became more accepting as to the amount of dissent that could be openly expressed, a number of Deists more bluntly stated their antagonisms with varying degrees of success.

For example, Matthew Tindal in “Christianity As Old As Creation” argued that, since God is perfect by definition, the revelation of God in the created order is so complete that the idea of the Bible is superfluous and is actually inferior as Tindal considered the Bible to be full of errors anyway (160). And by the time of the founding of the United States of America and the early years of the Republic, Thomas Jefferson edited a version of the Bible exorcising the Scriptures of their miraculous content. Our third president ended the Gospel with “there laid they Jesus, and rolled a great stone in front of the sepulcher and departed”, thus causing this version of the good news not to be all that good as Jesus had not risen according to this act of censorship (165).

Source: Geisler, Norman. "Christian Apologetics". Baker Academic, 1988.

by Frederick Meekins

Interesting that Juan Williams would be done in amongst his liberal bedfellows over matters of appropriate speech. For years, he has insisted in various interviews that Whites should have greater restrictions placed upon them than Blacks regarding what Caucasians should be permitted to say.

Schools failing to prevent the bullying of sodomite pupils are being threatened with lawsuits. Apparently, unlike Jesus, all the children are not precious in Obama's site.

"Trust The German Soldier"


A friend informed me of the existence of this poster.  The version of it forwarded read"Trust The German Soldier".    Since I don't read much German, am not sure what the words on this version says.  Reminds me of a number of Obama social programs that were milling about.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Residents Rally Against Mandatory Smart Meters

Observe how those gathering to state their displeasure are accused of degenerating an open forum into a "hatefest". It should be pointed out that those out to plan our futures for us believe "hate speech" is not protected by the First Amendment, which in their eyes is in serious need of revision to bring us more into compliance with the dictatorship of the European Union

Utility Smart Meters To Deprive You Of Life, Liberty & The Pursuit Of Happiness

More of the Third Worlding of America

White House Insists Your Economic Worth Determined By Your Plumming

Is Glenn Beck A Theistic Evolutionist?

Given that his wife called Anita Hill from out of the blue after nearly 20 years demanding an apology and given his history with Anita Hill, it makes you wonder if Justice Thomas has the hots for psychopathic mentally unstable women.

Juan Williams Fired For Refusing To Brownnose Ragheads

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Financial Deadbeats Rewarded In The Agoe Of Obama

Satanists To Hold Public Halloween Ritual

Anita Hill’s contacting the FBI over a phone call from the wife of Clarence Thomas that was by no indications violent or threatening exemplifies the liberal tendency to involve government in the attempt to resolve human conflicts.

Biden Threatens To Murder Uncooperative Republicans

If you can't say what violence you would do to the President or Vice President without a visit from the Secret Service, then these figures shouldn't be allowed to say it about any other American.

Red Chinese Conspire To Monopolize World Mineral Supply

Leftists Kooks Infilitrate Liberty University

Leftist kooks are infiltrating the faculty of Liberty University.

A biology professor there is insisting that modern society has developed an unfounded prejudice against bare feet.

As part of his proof, he cites photographs of early 20th century school children with unshod feet.

What he fails to realize or point out is that those children were likely that way because their parents couldn't afford shoes rather than as a result of conscientious fashion choice.

This case reminds me of some nutcase pastor from the Baltimore area, who despite his many trips abroad and such, berated his congregation for having more than one pair of shoes because the Africans he had encountered didn't have more than one pair.

Of course, it was never mentioned if we shouldn't travel abroad because the average African doesn't tend to travel abroad.

Before this foolishness meets its conclusion, as in the case of those that disfigure themselves with religious tattoos or those that made a big production of being discalced in the times of medieval Catholicism, those that go about without benefit of shoes will be applauded as spiritually better than the rest of us and those refusing to participate in podiatric nudity as average Americans will be accused yet another drain on environmental resources.

by Frederick Meekins

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Historian Distorts Past In Pursuit Of Anti-Christian Animus

In the 4/19/10 edition of USA Today, religious antiquarian Phillip Jenkins, by comparing extremist Islam with assorted atrocities committed in the name of Christianity over the centuries, details from an historical perspective how any religion can be co-opted in the name of violence. Though his warning is in part a timeless one that needs to be considered in all ages, Professor Jenkins' case overlooks a number of important points.

First, it must be remembered that, though horrible, the lynching and dismemberment of Hypatia and the abuses perpetrated by Cyril highlighted by Professor Jenkins occurred centuries ago. The violence committed by Islamic extremists is going on today.

That does not diminish the evils inflicted so long ago or repudiate the lessons that can be learned from such ancient accounts. However, the danger arises when this sense of scholastic detachment is then applied to the issue of contemporary terrorism.

Secondly, it must be remembered that such violence perpetrated solely for expansive religious purposes in the name of the Lord by human hands is not endorsed by Christ during the dispensation of grace. In Acts 17, Paul debated and dialogued with the Athenian philosophers on Mars Hill; he didn’t crack open their heads.

For Christians, Jesus during the time of His first advent and Paul are to serve as examples in regards to faith, practice, and missiological strategy. It could be argued that Muhammad serves a similar function in the life of the Muslim.

It would be factually incorrect to say that all Muslims are prone to fanatic violence. However, those using violence for socioreligious ends are more faithful in emulating the example set by Muhammad and the text he promoted than supposed Christians committing violence are in living up to New Testament standards.

Professor Jenkins would no doubt argue that those emphasizing violent manifestations of Islam while neglecting violent expressions of Christianity are doing a disservice to history. He has committed this very offense by insinuating that violent atrocities are a phenomena exclusive to unhinged religions and not something plaguing other social institutions.

Jenkins writes, "Out-of-control clergy, religious demagogues with their consecrated militias, religious parties usurping the functions of the state --- these were the common currency of the Christian world just a few decades after the Roman Empire made Christianity its official religion. He continues a paragraph or two later, "...given a sufficiently weak state mechanism, any religion can be used to justify savagery and extremism."

Are you going to tell me that an historian of Phillip Jenkins' repute is not aware of the countless deaths that result not so much from a "sufficiently weak state mechanism" but from a state made too strong at the expense of other cultural spheres? For example, Jenkins writes, "Between 450 and 650 AD, during what I call the 'Jesus Wars', inter-Christian conflicts and purges killed hundreds of thousands, and all but wrecked the Roman Empire."

Such conflict is tragic. However, it could be argued that the Roman Empire was, to use a highly technical historical metaphor, heading down the toilet well before then and for a number of additional reasons.

Frankly, the Roman Empire wrecked itself. Christians didn't instigate the debaucheries for which the waning years of the Empire have become infamous such as gladiatorial combat, rampant orgies, and even incest among the ruling elite.

History is as much a reflection of the values of those writing it as it is about the past era being written about. As such, Professor Jenkins needs to be asked why he thinks the violence perpetrated by warring bishops is somehow worse or the victims any more dead than the Christians slaughtered by Roman authorities for little more than quietly adhering to their own convictions.

It would seem that the most important lesson to take away from the great tragedies of history is that innocent human lives are lost when institutions of authority assume power to extents and over matters they were never intended. The regimes more blatantly hostile of Christianity such as Nazism and Communism were actually the regimes that turned the slaughter of the innocent and dissidents into an exact science.

It has been said that those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Concentrating power in the hands of government at the expense of other social institutions in the name of preventing tyranny is one of the surest ways of bringing about that particularly undesirable state of political affairs.

by Frederick Meekins

Tom Bosely, Of "Happy Days", Dead

New Sesame Street Muppet sings the praises of nappy locks. Wonder if they will introduce a felt minstrel with a catchy ditty to counter the White guilt being imposed on public school students.

Justin Bieber Justifies Violence In The Name Of Preventing Homophobia

Should the New Republic foolishness work its way into public policy (as it often does) that there ought to be a tax penalty against good parenting, what is the demarcation point between negligence and nurture?

New Republic Argues Those With Loving Parents Should Be Fiscally Penalized

Monday, October 18, 2010

The same human rabble outraged that Sharon Angle though that a group of Asians looked Latino are probably the same ones that have contributed to Hispanosupremacist groups that have discussed openly of their future plans to kill White people.

Glenn Beck quoted someone that China seems "so alive" right now. That is until you checkout the organ-harvesting death camps.

How is Ron Paul allegedly belonging to a secret society in college any worse than George W. Bush or John Kerry belong to Skull & Bones or the shenanigans that go on at Bohemian Grove, the Masonic Lodge, or amongst the Bilderbergers?

Companies are claiming they must increase insurance premiums because of obese people not exercising. Would they dare make a similar justification regarding men piddling around in other men’s rectums?

A Christian Fundamentalist denounces Mary Poppins as witchcraft Christians certain watch. No wonder people become Mormons and Catholics.

A presentation titled something like "Success & The History Major". To be more truthful, needs the subtitle "Something You'll Never See Once Leaving College Unless You Are A Pathological Brownnoser".

Fascinating conjecture on Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory" that Lyme disease was an experiment released from the Plum Island research center since the founder of that facility was a Nazi who theorized that ticks could be used in bio-warfare. Both localities are in close proximity to each other.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Those Volunteering In Politically Correct Causes Should Have To Pay Their Bills Like Everybody Else

University Abandons Mascot In Order To Brownnose Tolerancemongers

So why isn't this deemed offensive to those that have been injured by or lost family in bear attacks?


Thursday, October 14, 2010

Transgendered Athlete Demands Opportunity To Swing Its Club As A Lady Golfer

Rick Springfield Depressed 40 Years Ago

Perhaps a better headline would read, "Hasbeen Attempts To Milk Fame For Every Last Penny".

Is The McRib Composed Of Waste Pork That Even A Dog Won't Touch?

In other words, it should be the only selection on the menu at GITMO all day, everyday.

Is The State Department Siding With Homicidal Mexican Lake Pirates?

Have been told that I am always negative. So instead of seeing the gulag and concentration camps set up by totalitarian regimes as egregious atrocities, I guess they should be seen as expanded outdoor recreational opportunities for specified populations.

Contrary to Glenn Beck's ruminations, one rides public transportation to get from point "A" to point "B". One does not do so for compulsory interactive socialization.

Unlike Glenn Beck, bet Mark Levin would never equate you with the members of Hispanosupremacist gang, who tortured victims for allegedly being gay, if you tend not to divulge your life story to fellow strangers riding on public transportation.

Single Government Move To Destroy Automobiles & Prompt Mass Starvation

Monday, October 11, 2010

County Law Permits Political But Not Religious Signs

Secretary Of Education Vows To Environmentally Brainwash American School Children

Barbara Boxer Believes Hospitals Can Kill Born Babies

Leftists Snatch Picture Books From Children

Other than promiscious sex and hard narcotics, is there any pleasures liberals don't want to abolish. As C.S. Lewis said, always winter but never Christmas.

Washington Post Joins Conspiracy To Destroy Fox News

Friday, October 08, 2010

Baby Snatched Because Parents Members Of Online Political Forum

Yet the ragheads continue to breed out of control and are often lavished with government handouts for doing so.

Granted, Evangelical Christians need to be cautious of their entanglements with Glenn Beck because he is a Mormon. However, he is about one of the few games in town in terms of exposing a number of the things he does. This is due in part because of the tendency in hyperpious circles to manipulate the young among their ranks into believing that the truly devout worthy of praise and emulation are involved with foreign missions and definitely not politics or mass communications.

Statisticians claim that half of the deported illegals are criminal. Technically, weren't all of those deported criminals since they were here in violation of the law?

Is Rick Warren A Terrorist Sympathizer?

Candidate Denounced For Exposing The Islamic Menace

Government To Keep Track Of Whose Privates You Like To Jiggle

Thought what we did in the privacy of our bedrooms was no one else's business.

Sodomites Demand Mormons Alter Doctrine To Satisfy Perverts

Presidential Seal Committs Harakiri

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Britain Recognizes Druidry As An Established Religion

As disturbing as this is, even more so is a government given the power to determine what is and is not a valid system of belief.


Congress Fritters Away Money On New PC Monuments

Congress is on the verge of approving a National Women's History Museum, which critics such as Concerned Women of America claim will glamorize the practice of mass baby killing referred to as abortion.

Seems now every group with the exception of White males has a federally sanctioned museum explicitly named in their honor.

Perhaps one day there will be a museum or at least a memorial to fiscal solvency.

Future generations in chains or the decrepit elderly on their way to mandatory euthanasia could be filed through catching a glimpse of murals or displays of what life was like when responsible spending was one of the pillars of character ensuring freedom and prosperity.

by Frederick Meekins