Monday, January 16, 2012

Pastor Greg Locke tweets that if you attend an all White church, that doesn’t proclaim an all nation’s Gospel. But a White church should alter its liturgy or order of service to allow Blacks to jump all over the pews instead of reverently sit in them.

If you gripe about a church being all White, aren't you the one considering the color of skin rather than content of character?

Rats Granted More Rights In DC Than Unborn Children

A law has been enacted by the DC city council not only requiring that must most forms of rodentine vermin be captured for rerelease, but that they must also be relocated as family units.

These creatures are not a pod of whales, a herd of elephants, or a troop of gorillas.

Given that they will even eat their young and produce another liter a few months or weeks later, I doubt they form deep meaningful bonds with their offspring.

The same fanatics that don't want rats harmed by human hands are the same ones that decimate feral cat colonies that would otherwise keep these pests in check.

It's not like rats are on the verge of going extinct in the nation's Capitol (and given the nature of the city it's doubtful that they ever will).

According to one DC health official from Pakistan, the rat problem at Occupy movement shantytowns exceed those in Third World refuge camps.

Some will snap that the law applies only to pest control officials.

But for how long?

Often as in regards to other expansive laws, eventually this dictatorial regulation will be expanded to homeowners trying to handle these vermin themselves.

And speaking of plagues and such, it wouldn't surprise me if such laws were being enacted as a way to allow some kind of new strain of the plague to develop with the hopes of systematically eliminating vast swaths of the human population.

by Frederick Meekins

If a minister says that in terms of news, the truth lies somewhere between Fox and NPR, then why can't it be assumed that in regards to Christianity that the truth lies somewhere in between the poles of Independent Fundamentalism and Roman Catholicism rather than solely alone with one or the other?

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Why Shouldn't The Amish Have To Obey The Law Like Everybody Else?

By refusing to obey the law requiring them to put orange triangles on the back of their buggies, the members of one Amish sect in Kentucky are basically saying that their own ostentatious sense of piety is more important than the lives of other motorists.

One of the group's members insisted that he would rather rely on God for protection than the disputed safety apparatus.

If the Amishman really wants to trust God, there ought to be no reason why he needs to be out on the road at night.

Saturday, January 07, 2012

Christmas Billboards Point In The Culture War's Direction

Christmas is the time of year when the thoughts of most Americans grow to be at their most devout. It is increasingly the time of year that the avowed despisers of the Almighty are at their most disrespectful.

Before now, the most culturally embarrassing thing to come out of the wastelands of the Garden State was likely Snooki and her Jersey Shore compatriots. However, it now seems even their debauched escapades have been surpassed in terms of deliberately thumbing one’s nose at God.

For decades, one municipality there has draped across a main street a banner reading that horrible bit of wordplay “Keep Christ In Christmas”. As has become customary, leftist subversives have stepped forward insisting that the banner be taken down to placate one or two discombobulated by the message.

Those holding to this position contend that the feelings of a handful must be upheld at all costs for the sake of social cohesion. So if it cannot be urged to keep Christ in Christmas, are these diversitymongers going to be consistent and call for the decoupling of “Black” from “History Month”? That commemoration is even more divisive and controversial, but most Whites are too afraid to speak up as to what they really think of it.

In what could be categorized as a battle of the banners, to express their disdain regarding public displays of belief, a gaggle of atheists have hoisted an ensign emblazoned with the following: “At this season of the winter solstice, there are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only the natural world. Religion is but a myth and a superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”

Perhaps the greatest gift such deluded infidels could be given this Christmas season would be for someone to point out that their countersign is itself fraught with a number of faith-based assumptions as ultimately improvable as anything held by the most ardent adherents of traditional religious belief.

For example, can the atheist really irrefutably prove that only the natural world exists? If one wanted to get really snotty about it, couldn’t one make the argument that, since man’s knowledge is finite, God is floating a mere two inches out of range of the most powerful telescopes ever designed?

The banner hoisted by the unbelievers attempts to strike an eminently scientific pose. However, its conclusion has nothing whatsoever to do with experimental objectivity.

Furthermore, aren't we often chided in response to the most ludicrous postulations to keep an open mind? So why is the existence of God an invalid assumption?

The banner concludes, “Religion...hardens hearts and enslaves minds.” But if nothing exists beyond physicality and materiality, on what grounds are hard hearts and enslaved minds such a negative thing?

With power and brute force being the only true values since they promote survival and existential optimization of those that wield them, why are hard hearts and enslaved minds less than optimal states of being? You see, in a materialistic context, one cannot even use the word “bad”.

During Christmas each year, St. Matthew's-In-The-City Church in Aukland, New Zealand sponsors a billboard that the congregation considers provocative. This year, the church went with a billboard depicting the Virgin Mary holding a home pregnancy test with an expression of shock and dismay upon her face.

This work does attempt to take the viewer beyond the quaint romanticism of the Christmas story as popularly presented to better appreciate how the lives of those involved were profoundly impacted and altered. Yet this depiction is still wrong on a number of levels.

There is one thing the observant notices right out of the gate. That is just how long would you live if you drew the portrait of the founder of a particular world religion with a proclivity for loud explosions holding a home pregnancy test?

Secondly, depicting Mary with a look of befuddlement on her face ignores the facts and implications of the Biblical account. A surprised look would indicate a couple of things.

A pregnancy test suggests that the angel did not make the announcement to Mary as chronicled in Luke Chapter 1. According to the artistic depiction in question, she would not have suspected she was with child until whatever it is that prompts a woman to suspect she might be and seeks confirmation through the highlighted pharmaceutical apparatus.

If the angel did appear as detailed, the taking of a home pregnancy test would indicate that Mary did not believe the angel. And though there were no doubt times that her heart grew heavy as did that of her child in the Garden of Gethsemane, there is no indication from Holy Writ that she ever doubted the veracity of the message sent to her and the move of God upon her. In Luke 1:38, Mary says, "I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said (NIV)."

Many dismiss billboards as nothing but blights upon the landscape. But if one takes a closer look, one discovers how a number of these oversized signs can highlight the ideas clamoring for prominence in public perception and a remind Christians why they must always be ready to give an answer in response to the confusion and despair that has gripped mankind in various forms throughout history.

by Frederick Meekins

Cardinal Shouldn't Apologize For Comparing Gay Parade To Klan Rally

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

So would a graduate of an actual school called Bastyr University be called a "Bastyrd"

Anti-military propagandists have latched onto the fact that the murderer of a park ranger in Washington State was an Iraqi war veteran. Mark my words. Some human filth will eventually be saying she got exactly what she deserved as a government employee.

If the murderer of the park ranger had been a professor of naturalistic evolution or postmodern literary criticism, would the media continually beat that aspect of the scumbags background into our heads?

If one is going to couch one's opposition to Bachman & Gingrich from the standpoint of feigned sophistication by going on how their experience has only been in the House of Representatives rather than as a Senator or Governor and thus are unqualified to be President, shouldn't you be consist and come out against Ron Paul as well?

Aren't you giving back to the COMMUNITY each time you pay your own bills since you are taking the pressure off assorted charitable organizations or government agencies to do so?

If a PSA is instructing us to intervene whenever we see someone doing something that could start a forest fire, is there going to be an accompanying clarification allowing us to fill their backsides full of buckshot when the offender turns around and threatens our lives?

If Dr. Dobson steps forward to tell us whom to vote for, spend your money on a worthy cause other than Focus On The Family, namely your own bills.

If the government is going out of its way to deny rumors that Obama once traveled on an interplanetary indoctrination mission to Mars, doesn't that statement increase the likelihood that he actually may have?

Social conservatives should pick their own candidates and not allow Dr. Dobson to do so for them.

An effusively pious associate is aghast that Gingrich is seeking "revenge" over verbal distortions propagated by Romney regarding the former Speaker of the House. It is the associate's contention that such an attitude is not Biblical or Christlike. Yet, most positions held by Ron Paul is accepted nearly as Holy Writ. So I ask is advocating the legalization of hardcore narcotics Biblical and Christlike?

Deng Xiaoping is a chain-smoking communist dwarf : the sayings of Pat Buchanan

Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Santorum's Nephew Votes Ron Paul

Perhaps the family should have the brat drug tested.

If Iowa is "too White and Evangelical" to be considered a legitimate measure of political opinion, then shouldn't the same be said of congressional districts gerrymandered to placate agitated racialist minorities?

If Andrea Mitchell thinks there are "too many White Evangelicals" in Iowa, perhaps she should be told there are "too many Jews" in the upper reaches of the banking industry.

The terror of history : on the uncertainties of life in Western civilization

Other than the hired help, how many Blacks or Hispanics were seen on Andrea Mitchell's & hubby Alan Greenspan's street this past election cycle?

Truth be told, most honest, upstanding Black folks would probably prefer to live in an area that was "too White & Evangelical" as well.

If Iowa is "too White and Evangelical", it sounds like it might be a delightful place to live.

The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science

Isn't it speaking ill of another Republican to speak about another Republican speaking ill of another Republican?