Commentary Telling It Like It Is To Those That Might Not Want To Hear It & Links To News Around The Internet
Friday, November 10, 2023
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Tyranical Edict Issued For Disaffiliating Methodist Churches
Those departing are no longer under his ecclesiastical authority.
How can such a dictatorial decree be legitimately enforced?
Individuals might be barred from setting foot on United Methodist property.
However, it is an abridgement of both constitutional and human rights to prevent someone from encouraging friends and family from pursuing a course of action that is an exercise of individual preference that is in no way criminal or even immoral.
by Frederick Meekins
Sunday, November 05, 2023
Saturday, November 04, 2023
Friday, November 03, 2023
Thursday, November 02, 2023
Pope’s Theological Arousal Over Homosexual Unions Out Of The Closet
Pope’s Theological Arousal Over Homosexual Unions Out Of The Closethttps://t.co/bGfyU421NB
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) November 1, 2023
Afrosupremacist Accuses Whites Of Failing To Pander To Black Ecclesiastical Peculiarities Of Terrorism
Afrosupremacist Accuses Whites Of Failing To Pander To Black Ecclesiastical Peculiarities Of Terrorismhttps://t.co/Li8XYjjDlO
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) November 1, 2023
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Homeless No Right To Vacant Homes
A meme posted to social media insisted, “In the U.S., vacant houses outnumber homeless people.”
And the point is?
Shouldn’t it also be asked why is the person homeless?
The way in which this statement is formulated raises a number of additional observations.
Steps can be taken to find shelter for the destitute.
However, it does not logically follow that these individuals deserve a home given to them outright without having to earn one.
A significant number of the homeless can’t seem to master the basics of bodily hygiene.
What makes you think they can handle the complexities of home upkeep?
There is also the issue of definitions. Just because a house is vacant, that does not mean that the house is not owned.
If the owners of such domiciles want to make it part of their life’s vocation to shelter the indigent, that is commendable.
However, we must be circumspect of social engineers compelling to surrender that which fanatical redistributors consider excess.
For example, if non-resident owners are forced to quarter vagrants against their will (a violation of the spirit of the Third Amendment), when those unable to handle the stresses of maintaining a home either actively or passively allow entropy to overtake a given structure, what party will step forward to rectify this damage.
Idealists might sneer down their noses at reducing this moral dilemma to matters of economics and base legalities.
However, you can’t really live inside a good intention and expect it to keep the wind or rain out, can you?
by Frederick Meekins
Monday, October 30, 2023
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Friday, October 27, 2023
Halloween Participation Equated With Jihadist Terrorism
One of the most distinct in very conservative Evangelical circles is the anti-Halloween sermon.
One such oratorical treat posted at SermonAudio by Chris Engelsma is titled “The Seven Sons Of Sceva”, an allusion to the exorcists that had their posteriors handed to them by a demonic entity after the band of necromancers invoked the name of Christ as a magical incantation despite not actually believing in the Savior.
In the sermon, it is explicitly insinuated that Christians participating in Halloween customs such as Trick Or Treat make as much rational sense as Israelis hoisting the flag of Hamas.
Yet towards the conclusion of this pulpit lucidity, this pastor that apparently does not mind going so rhetorically over the top into what some might consider questionable taste can't really bring himself to take a definitive pronouncement against Halloween and the Christian's undisputed obligations in regards to this controversial festival.
Instead the minister hems and haws as he reaches the conclusion about how all he can do is expound a set of principles with each individual believer left to decide what is best for their own family.
If a pastor ends his sermon with the modifying stipulation that his only intention is to share his interpretative perspective and that he cannot determine for you the position to adopt in regards to a particular practice where the directives of Scripture are not clearly explicit, on what grounds does he and the leadership clique of the congregation get jacked out of shape at you should you come to a differing conclusion?
As a result, the discerning are no doubt left wondering is Halloween not really as bad as they have been led to believe in hysterical tirades and even more importantly, is terrorism something that does not to be opposed all that rigorously.
By Frederick Meekins
Jihadist Sympathizers Hunt Jews During Library Pogrom
Jihadist Sympathizers Hunt Jews During Library Pogromhttps://t.co/K3zv4EOVbv
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) October 26, 2023
Totalitarian Apostates Insist Unwilling To Remain In A Heretical Denomination A Form Of Terrorism
Totalitarian Apostates Insist Unwilling To Remain In A Heretical Denomination A Form Of Terrorismhttps://t.co/qWC6AAZhBe
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) October 26, 2023
Southern Baptist Leftists Urge Embrace Of Broad Path Leading To Destruction
Southern Baptist Leftists Urge Embrace Of Broad Path Leading To Destructionhttps://t.co/DH06DLBQGC
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) October 26, 2023
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Videogames No Less Moral Than Auto Repair
In an online meme, the top panel depicts a child playing video games with the caption reading, “We need less of this”.
The bottom portion of the meme depicts a child working on an engine, the caption reading, “And more of this”.
Not everyone is wired for auto repair.
The child drawn to the video games should instead be encouraged to either write the code to produce the games, formulate the narratives laying the foundations of the imaginative worlds in which the games take place, or how to run businesses specializing in making these sorts of products available.
Contrary to the latest intelletual fad among assorted varieties of populism, manual laborers are not more inherently moral than those whose vocations are not necessarily classifiable as blue collar.
Conservatives and Christians bemoan how wretched these creative works have become but stear the youth away from striving to produce an alternative option.
by Frederick Meekins
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Maryland To Become Pantoptical Penal Colony By 2035
Maryland To Become Pantoptical Penal Colony By 2035https://t.co/YORMKGOz8g
— epistolizer (@epistolizer) October 18, 2023