Scottish Priest A Terrorist Sympathizer

Jill Biden Accused Of Insufficiently Brownnosing Michelle Obama

NYC Ground Zero mosque imam told WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein that "terrorism is a complex issue" and that he is a "bridge builder". That is essentially a veiled confession that he is a terrorist frontman.

Will China Achieve Naval Superiority?

Bloomberg says it's not place of government to vet clergy and everyone is entitled to their opinion. Thus, would he welcome Pat Buchanan or David Duke establishing offices in NYC?

Parents Lose Custody Of Tot Named Hitler

The justification is domestic violence.  Guess if you snatched all the kids named Muhammad where wife beatings took place, you'd not have enough orphanges to house all the foundlings.

Crazed Chinamen Continue Pupil Slaying Rampages

Neither secular statists nor religious theocrats can blame this one on too much freedom.

Did a carnival game where players could shoot foam darts at a figure resembling Obama get the attention of authorities for threatening the President or for insinuating the influence non-terrestrial intelligences might have over government and policy?

Will Positive Thinking Hokem Get Tony Robbins Back On The Air?

NYC Christ-Despisers Rush To Build Mosque But Drag Feet Regarding Church

Wonder if that booze Obama swills, the cigs he puffs, and the cocaine he use to snort were all locally grown.

Candidate Exposes Globalist Efforts To Use Environemtnalism To Destroy Liberty

If Government Videotapes Citizens, Citizens Should Videotape Government

So ashamed of me in the virtual world that you deny knowing of me, perhaps you should consider doing the same in the actual one."

Is Obama Attempting To Rewrite History Of WWII?

Leftist Evangelicals Equate Illegal Aliens With Biblical Patriarchs

Bloomberg Celebrates Islam But Censors Christmas

Batman & Wonder Woman Wed

If the Muslims take over, hopefuilly Mayor Bloomberg and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman will be the first Jews rounded up for the new concentration camps.

FBI Distorts Law To Coerce Compliance

Alabama Authorities Illegally Destroying Private Property

Nuns Applaud Scumbag Illegal Killing On Of Their Own

Wonder what a liberal New York Jew like Bloomberg would think about a Skinhead group setting up a visitors center outside of Auschwitz

A nun was killed in a carwreck by an illegal alien. Though a tragedy, maybe the Catholic Church might reconsider it's lax and even embracing attitude towards illegal aliens. More importantly, would this sad story have even made the headlines if the victim had been a Baptist church lady rather than a Catholic worker?

Bitch At Communion: But Is It The Dog Or The Priest?

Hispanic Impregnates 13 Year Old

Multiculturalism for you.

The girl's parents are probably as much human scum as her violator and probably barely speak audible English.

Guess there are some that would claim this filth shouldn't have to show police their ID's or immigration papers.

Let's hear what the immigration status of all parties involved just happens to be.

Obama's Mama's Passport Records Conveniently Destroyed

A theonomical Christian Reconstructionist has theorized that the only valid marriages are between Christians. Unless this statement is clarified, this means that the children born to non-Christians would be illegitimate bastards & that should Reconstructionists come to power, they would deny basic civil and contractual rights to those not members of their Calvinistic churches.

Lessons In Apologetics #3: Experientialism & Evidentialism

The next methodology is experientialism. Though fideism strives to make faith alone the justification for religious knowledge or belief, Geisler observes that this faith is ultimately justified in terms of an experience had by the individual (65).

To the experientialist, God or the Ultimate is not so much something to be understood or comprehended but rather felt. Stretching all the way back to the Neoplatonist Plotinus, experientialism views what the believer refers to as God as "the one beyond all knowing and being (66)."

In fact, God is so far beyond what the finite mind is capable of comprehending that to really say anything about God is highly inaccurate as to do so would be limiting God. As such, the best the individual can aspire to is an intuitive mystical union with the universal by turning inward through an ascetic detachment from the physical world around us in pursuit of a metaphysical unity.

Friedrich Schleiermacher provided for a more accessible apprehension of the cosmic or divine by equating religious experience not so much with monastic solitude but rather with the feeling of absolute dependence we all feel from time to time. According to Schleiermacher, this feeling is actually the World Spirit reaching out to us and actualizing within each of us.

To experientialists, dogmas and doctrines are not that important (that itself actually a doctrine though) as these conceptual formulations are merely shadows or echoes of the deeper experience. While experientialists are correct that the individual must have some kind of encounter with God beyond that often referred to as "book knowledge", one begins to trod upon dangerous ground when the experience becomes the ultimate criteria for judgment by positing that those having more intense experiences are somehow more in touch with the cosmos as in the case of certain meditation cults.

If experience itself is made the highest standard, the individual will end up not knowing whether or not he is being led into deception. I John 4:1 tells us to test the spirits to see if they are from God.

The next apologetic methodology is evidentialism. Rationalism, fideism, and experientialism are largely inwardly focused approaches to knowledge of God with both fideism and experientialism also being highly subjective as well. Evidentialism tends to be more objective as it points to evidence existing independently of an individual's internal emotional or intellectual states to make a case for the existence of God.

While experientialism stresses the importance of a personal acquaintance with what we categorize as the divine, evidentialism provides an anchor to prevent such hypothesizing from meandering off into exceedingly esoteric or individualized speculation by providing a basis for belief any interested party is free to investigate at their own leisure. The primary forms of proof offered by evidentialists are nature and history.

Nature is probably the form of evidence best used when the individual being appealed to is not yet even a theist. This proof for the existence of God is known as the teleological argument in that it holds that the intricate structures found in the world point to the need for a designer.

This idea is expressed in terms of the Watchmaker Hypothesis formulated by William Paley. Paley contended that, if one found a watch in the woods, one would from the intricacies of its parts working together in tandem for a purpose assume the contraption would need a designer. Likewise, since the world is no less complex and actually even more so, it is only logical to conclude that the physical universe around us would also require a designer.

Having lived from 1743-1805, Paley himself did not face the Darwinian onslaught. However, others since then have tweaked the argument to make it stronger against criticisms such as those of John Stuart Mill. Mill argued that the watchmaker analogy was weak because we know things like watches have watchmakers and, without a perspective beyond which a finite human being is capable, Hume's speculation of organicism with the world growing like a vegetable could very well be correct.

To counter the Darwinian and Humean notions that given enough time a number of elements could be reshuffled enough to fortuitously result in the world we see around us, A.E. Taylor and F.R. Tennat have argued that the world around us shows too much adaptation and anticipation to have been the product of random chance. For example, Taylor notes how the body’s need for oxygen is anticipated by biological structures such as membranes and organs. Geisler writes, “In fact, mind or intelligence is the only known condition that can overcome the improbabilities against the development and preservation of life...In short, the order evident in natural development of life is evidence of God (90)."

While this brand of evidentialism is vital in convincing the atheist or agnostic that God exists, it is not enough to bring someone to a saving knowledge of Christ as many of the world's religions such as Judaism, Islam, and even apostate forms of Christianity are full of theists barreling down the road to Hell. An evidentialist approach emphasizing history directly confronts the unbeliever with the decision he will have to make to decide his eternal destiny.

One of the aspects of Christianity that sets it apart from many of the other religions and belief systems is its historical nature in that the validity of its claims ultimately rest upon the veracity of actual events. II Peter 1:16 says, "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty?"

Since these events took place within the flow of normal time, by utilizing research methods similar to those used to investigate the past such as the examination of ancient documents, one can construct an intellectual framework reasonably assuming that Christ did indeed exist. Prominent evidentialists utilizing history would include John Warwick Montgomery and Lee Strobel.

Despite the strength of evidentialist apologetics, its efforts to elevate religious dialogue beyond one's internal feelings (the burning in the bosom referred to by the Mormons which could very easily be indigestion), the approach is not without drawbacks. For while facts can indeed exist as objective realities, the individual can often go to great lengths to put a spin on them that fits them into an individual’s preconceived worldview.

For example, those inclined to marvel at the world around them can more easily be persuaded that everything was created by a wise and loving God than those who view the world through a survival of the fittest mindset focusing on the violence, bloodshed, and disease that often characterizes both the human and animal realms. Evidentialists will counter that often the theistic interpretation turns out to be the most credible rather than naturalistic ones that stretch plausibility such as the Apostles absconding with Christ’s body or Jesus being revived in the cool of the tomb.

Source:

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

By Frederick Meekins

Three homicidal maniacs escaped from a prison in Arizona. If apprehended by police, would it be wrong for law enforcement personnel to ask to verify their ID's?

If Charlie Rangel can't be bothered to remember owning property at a luxury resort, then why should business owners be expected to remember every purchase over $600 that now has to be reported to the IRS?

The Secretive Aldi's Empire

Hispanosupremacists Rampage Despite Ruling In Their Favor

Jordan River Baptism Not Worth The Trouble

Obama labels Blacks a "mongrel people". Can you imagine the hell that would bust loose had Bush said such a thing? What makes Obama's statement any less offensive than something David Duke might have said in his robe wearing days?

If there are no possessions, religion, heaven, or hell as John Lennon's song "Imagine" insists, on what grounds does Yoko Ono oppose the parole of her husband's killer?

If Dispensationalism in a sinful heresy, shouldn't John Lofton condemn his employer Michael Peroutka for selecting Chuck Baldwin as his 2004 Vice Presidential running mate?

Apparently Neal Boortz Is A Sodomite Stooge

Is Staten Island Being Surrendered To Mexican Forces?

Shouldn't the blame for a 16 year old Dallas girl getting fangs put in be put on the parents and dentist rather than the author and producers of Twilight?

If illegal aliens can't be compelled to carry ID & prove who they are, isn't it a form of tyranny to require that of actual legitimate Americans?

Illegals Infiltrate Military Intelligence

Honestly, I can barely tell the difference between Islamists and Christian Reconstructionists. Just saw a post by one hoping the entire East Coast of the United States be destroyed.

Arizona Surrendered To Hispanosupremacists

Fairy Demands Ferry Discount

Interesting how Calvinistic, theonomical Christian Reconstructionists will not directly answer the claim as to what they intend to do should they ever come to power with Christians that profess what this variety of theology would brand heresy.

Obama Does Little To Stop Honor Killings

Does the Institute On The Constution insist upon the death penalty for those holding to alternative interpretations of Christianity as advocated by one of its primary spokesman?

Christian Reconstructionism is a philsophy having so much in common with the Taliban that, in at least one instance I have seen, adherents of this outlook are starting to side with the Taliban against the United States.

LeAnn Rimes Shacks Up As Concubine

Political Theorist Proposes How To Handle The Zombie Menace

This may seem like a bizarre topic to address in one of the world's most prestigious foreign policy journals. However, what one may actually be witnessing here are plans gently being fleshed out on how to handle the hitherto unexperienced supernatural phenomena that will manifest itself during the Tribulation period.

Obama Minions Propose Involuntary Servitude

About the only thing worthy of applause regarding this bill is that it includes women as well as men.

For if the contemporary woman is not going to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, on what grounds should they be exempt from a life of service or even death on behalf of the state?

If every one is equal, your life is no more valuable than mine. If men can be compelled to sacrifice against their will, why not women?

A Nebraska town has delayed the implementation of a law that would forbid employers from hiring illegals or renting property to them. Interesting how the rest of us already have to submit everything just short of our latest colonoscopy to acquire employment or shelter.

If the Sea Shepherd terrorists think humans are no better than animals, is the group going to condemn Jack Hanna for warding off a grizzly attack with pepper spray.

Illegals Infested With Assorted Pestilences

If radical Calvinistic Christian Reconstructionists are going to advocate executing blasphemers and heretics, on what grounds do they continually bemoan similar acts by the Roman Catholics throughout history?

O'Reilly Advocates Assassinating Head Of BP

If it would be wrong to say these things in regard to Obama, isn't it as wrong to say them in regard to anyone else?

Will Jewish Gas Spark Next Middle Eastern War?

If doctors are now conducting firearms safety, does that mean also that the NRA or some other ballistics experts get to dispense medical advice?

Heathen Cop Imposes His Theology On Christians

Why Are Pediatricians Interogating Parents Over Guns?

A theonomical Christian Reconstructionist posits that blasphemy is promoting lies about God and that those promulgating such ideas should be given the death penalty. How long would such a policy be in place until it was extended to cover those promoting theologies radical Calvinists abhor such as Dispensationalism and Arminianism?

If the spokesman of a Christian organization highly regarded among paleoconservatives starts to advocate the death penalty for a class of offenders that this punishment has not been applied to for centuries, isn't it a valid question to ask to what extent this reinstituted penalty would be applied? More importantly, should the head of this organization who once held high political aspirations be asked to clarify his own position regarding his underling's provacative ruminations?

Human Debris Threatens To Tear Arizona Apart If Immigration Law Enforced

Police Enforce Nonexistent Laws Regarding Photography

Wouldn't this by definition be a form of tyranny, the enforcement of nonexistent laws?  Makes you wonder what other areas of life in which the government is getting by with similar outrages.

Obama Tells Americans Why We Should Praise His Holy Name

Yahoo article suggests one can save money by "sharing with neighbors". Frankly, I'd rather pay the extra and not be bothered by them poking around in my business.

On Fox Business Channel, the Governor of Pennsylvania said the financial reform bill is necessary to prevent people from "gaming the system". Like to know how making a credit card purchase below $10 is "gaming the system".

Vader Robs Bank

And You Thought The Real Lord Wanted A Steep Cut Of 10%: Costs $30,000 To Attend Celebration Of The Protobeast

Obama announces he wants his daughters to put babysitting money into savings accounts. Wonder if their accounts will be subject to the same scrutiny as everyone elses all in the name of preventing narcotics traffic, terrorism, and such related boogeyman. Or since this is the "First Children", are we not allowed to raise such questions.

State University Threatens To Expel Student Refusing To Renounce Christianity

Police Do Nothing As Rabid Sodomites Threaten To Defile Children

Muslims Claim Opposition To Mosques In America On The Rise: Neglect To Mention If Muslim Nations More Welcoming Of Churches

New electronic health records to include body mass index but not HIV status or number of abortions. But if it's the government's business what you do with your head hole, shouldn't it also track what you're doing with the bottom ones?

Know me long enough and I'll tick you off so much, you'll deny knowing my very existence.

Though the Gospel and sound doctrine doen't change, that does not preclude formulating solid theology and apologetics in a number of ways or in a variety of mediums.

Will Paycheck Fairness Act Screw Over Men In Favor Of Women?

Why shouldn't Americans of both sexes be educated on how to get the best salary possible? Even more importantly, shouldn't the millions and millions of dollars going into education already be enough to train them in this skill?

Contrary to the composers of worship music drivel, God is not the air you breathe. If you think that, you are a pantheist. Frankly, who wants to feel the same kind of emotional funk towards God that one does towards a member of the opposite sex that won't give you the time of day?

Tweets About Whale Wars

Though Whale Wars is an interesting program, in light of it, Discovery Networks should broadcast from a favorable standpoint a program about a band of prolife activists disrupting the operations of an abortion clinic.

On Whale Wars season 2, episode 8, the Japanese whalers should be applauded in their restraint by only use an acoustic weapon on the Sea Shepherd copter. These beatnik environmentalists should just be grateful a surface to air missile wasn't used.

Perhaps the Japanese whalers should get their own rubber dingies and toss noxious substances onto the Sea Shepherd ship for a change. Given the disgusting things Asians are known to eat, are pungent aromatic assaults the best way to deter the whalers?

Will there be a season of Whale Wars where the Sea Shepherds plan to harass Eskimos for hunting cetaceans? Guess the Japanese are too close to honorary White people to be able to gum up the conceptual relativism of these leftwingers by asking who are they to impose their dietary values on another culture.

The Sea Shepherds ought to be glad they are not dealing with the Japanese of the World War II era. Say what you want about that empire's faults, it's doubtful they would put up with hippies harassing that nation's ships.

Seems Paul Watson is the only crew member to grow obese on a vegetarian diet. Most of them look pathetically sickly and thin. Even the crews pet African looked plumper than the average Westerner onboard

With the sinking of the Ady Gil, maybe the organization now knows how it feels to have one of their vessels rammed.

It was stated that $5 million was paid for the Sea Shepherd's vessel the Bob Barker. Was that bid closest to the actual retail price without going over?

by Frederick Meekins

Frau Obama Again Stuffs Her Pie Hole With Icecream Before Condemning The Sloth Of Americans

Oil Spill Threatens China

Utah Town Offers Spanish Prayer On July 4th

Blacks Riot To Avoid Going To School With Other Blacks

Yet we Whites are expected to have a smile plastered across our faces over such a scholastic prospect.

Wouldn't the NAACP demand that a White person that committed a racist act over 20 years ago still be fired from their government job? The organization struck a blow at Ross Perot for doing nothing more than saying "You people".

Obamaphiles Hope To Spark Islamic Revival In America

"Family Guy" is up for an Emmy for a song mocking the retarded. Maybe Mel Gibson wouldn't be in so much hot water and applauded as a genius if he had sung the slurs hurled at his concubine rather than yelling them into the telephone.

If liberals are going to insist that standard English is not the national language, on what grounds do they then look down on Sarah Palin for a single mispronunciation? At least she communicates at a level well above the extend grunts & moans of press secretary Robert Gibbs.

Mexican Women Smuggling Potential Afghan Terrorists Off U.S. Army Base

Does Bob Schieffer Think Black Panthers Threatening To Kill White Babies Isn't A Big Deal?

Gingrich Suggests Tea Party Movement Brownnose NAACP

Glenn Beck Announces He Might Be Going Blind

No doubt the same liberals who insist that you undermine the Republic and promote racism if you consider Obama anything other than lord and savior will no doubt ridicule this they way they mocked Tony Snow's cancer.

Has The Mystery Of Cropcirlces Been Solved?

A ship infested with spiders was turned away from docking in Guam. Just think how an invasive species could be used by terrorists with a jar of bugs tucked away in their knapsacks waltzing over the border to destroy a nation’s economy and ecosystem.

Obama Spends Tax Dollars To Establish Abortion & Islamic Law In Kenya

And bet you the abortions aren't targetting the Muslims.

Frau Obama lectures us how we should replace soda with water. How about we replace her next election day?

Contrary to a Facebook status update I've seen, the authenticity of one's Christian walk is not determined by how satisfied you are with your station in life. A better measure would be if you show up to work everyday even if you'd rather be somewhere else.

If Glenn Beck correctly points out the similarities between Obama's policies and Communism and Nazism, then why is it wrong for a group of Tea Party activists to do so with a billboard? Guess Tea Party luminaries don't think you should be permitted to exercise your own free thought and speech until you are a Fox News millionaire as well.

NAACP Applauds Bureaucrat Addmitting Refusal To Assist White Farmer

Lawyers have harmed this nation far worse than the armed forces ever have. Therefore, isn’t it hypocritical to work for a law firm while holding to the impropriety of permitting military recruiters onto law school campuses?