Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Should Those Bucking Public Opinion Be Banished Unto Utter Desolation?
Acolytes of tolerance and inclusion are applauding one Indiana town where these values are not to be extended to a congregation daring to exercise its First Amendment rights with a sign simply reading “LGBTQ is a hate crime against God.”
For nothing more than summarizing a basic Christian doctrine or moral presupposition, the congregation has been kicked out of the structure in which its services were convened.
Those holding to an absolutist libertarianism will likely respond that the individual should be able to evict any tenant that advances values with which they do not agree.
Perhaps so.
So should landlords be able to remove from their premises leasees that are practicing coupled homosexuals or heterosexual shackups that romp in the sack without benefit of matrimony?
In response to this message, one activist little better than a graffiti vandal rearranged the letters to read “Stay open minded”.
If private property is now to be upheld as the inviolate standard, will there be as much hue and cry over this particular individual imposing their preferred morality upon a means of public expression that does not belong to them.
For unless we have indeed descended into mob rule, property rights are not predicated upon compliance with the herd mentality.
By Frederick Meekins
Monday, July 09, 2018
Saturday, July 07, 2018
Friday, July 06, 2018
Fundamentalist Attends Baseball & Auto Races But Not Ministerial Association
In the column, the minister concluded that, even if someone professes to be a born again believer, you really ought not have much to do with the individual unless they pretty much march lockstep with you in agreement on a comprehensive litany of secondary matters.
One wonders how Smith feels regarding other denominations as leery of those wild-eyed Fundamentalists.
As evidence of his hardline position, Shelton Smith referenced a ministerial association he had been pressured into attending as a young pastor and seminary student.
To justify the fact that he never went back, Smith mentions seeing so-called ministers of the Gospel caught smoking cigars and hearing others engaged in “off color conversations”.
Some might have even remarked how good a lady might have looked in tight-fitting jeans and a short haircut (ha ha).
As shocking as that might have been, can he really insist that what he might have been exposed to at such a meeting in the 1970's was really worse than what he was in the vicinity of during the NASCAR races and baseball games he is on the record of having attended in the pages of the Sword of the Lord, a publication that at one time published an article explicitly stating viewers of Stat Trek were not fit to teach school?
By Frederick Meekins
Thursday, July 05, 2018
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Beloved Community Certification Foments White Guilt Within The Episcopal Church
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Monday, July 02, 2018
Sunday, July 01, 2018
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Friday, June 29, 2018
Geologist Claims To Have Unearthed Extraterrestrial Debris At Roswell Crash Site
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Those Opposing Assimilation Into The Collective Categorized As “Poorly Informed”
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
More Off Target With Moonie Offshoot Than Firearms
Instead of detailing how the sect’s theology differed from that of orthodox interpretations of Christianity or even the questionable recruitment techniques utilized by Moonie organizations, the episode spent an inordinate amount of time harping upon the sect’s admittedly idiosyncratic incorporation of firearms into certain aspects of its liturgy.
While such might not be a normal part of spiritual practice, such is not without historic precedent.
As such does Elizabeth Vargas intend to broadcast similar exposes with accompanying ominous voice over narration asking do Sikhs really need those ceremonial daggers and just why does a sword play a role in certain Masonic rituals?
Not once do I recall anything said as to the legality of the guns depicted which had been deliberately emptied of ammunition.
Instead, a lengthy reflection dwelt upon the tragedy that could result should the firearm end up being misused by a less rational adherent of this theology.
For as you know, the line of argumentation continued, anyone that doesn't embrace the transgender movement and believes that legitimate marriage can only be between a man and a woman is by definition well on their way to being diagnosed as mentally deficient.
As proof, the plight is followed of a former Unification member whose mother was paralyzed when she was accidentally shot by his brother because the youths in the sect enjoyed recreational shooting.
One cannot help but sympathize with a family that has experienced such a tragedy.
But isn't it the fault of the one that shot her, her own child?
Off all of the abridgments of human decency perpetrated over the years by the Unification Church and now apparently its offshoots, this incident really isn't one for which these parties bear responsibility.
Elizabeth Vargas has been open regarding her struggles with alcoholism.
As such, because some people can't control themselves around alcohol to the point that they are a danger to themselves and others, does that mean no one should be allowed to utilize the substance in ways otherwise considered legal?
If not, then why this journalistic production where one constitutional liberty is invoked for the purposes of subverting another?
By Frederick Meekins
