Christianity. There is one Jesus. He was a real person whose statements are recorded with a more reliable pedigree to document these sayings than possibly any other text on record. Yet, it seems everyone tries to adopt him as saying this or that or anything else. Dan Phillips has a good summary of why this is simply foolish. Jesus rejected all worship but that which walked along the path he clearly laid out.
Papism. Moving on from Christianity to something almost totally unrelated to Christianity, we have the Pope making one of the strangest statements ever: “Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that the use of condoms can be justified in some cases, such as for male prostitutes seeking to prevent the spread of HIV.” Say again? I am so glad the Vatican “clarified” this statement so that I could get confirmation of what the Pope really means. Essentialy, he means, by analogy, “If you’re going to commit vehicular homicide, please be responsible and wear a seatbelt.” That’s an imperfect analogy, but that’s what it amounts to in my view.
Homosexuality. Phil Johnson shares some thoughts on the charge of homophobia that is so often leveled at anyone who believes homosexuality is a sin. Phil points out that Christians can legitimately say this and have no fear and no hatred for homosexuals. He also ends with a postscript about a certain loathsome Kansan who only says derogatory things about Christians. That man and his followers are not following Christ.
Environment. China is doing a bang-up job at cleaning up the environment. So well, in fact, that the US Embassy recently reported the air quality was “crazy bad.”
Environment. Continuing on the environment, we have Al Gore admitting to having pandered for bad environmental policy. Ok, so good for him admitting it, but now we have to wonder what all he’s pandering for now that makes him money in private industry? He makes a lot of money from environmentalism, how do we know he’s only pushing good environmental policy?
TSA. If the President is okay with these, I say every time he, his wife, his family, or his staff boards Air Force One or Marine One, they have to be given a nudie scan and an enhanced pat down. We need to make sure that he and his staff don’t bring dangerous weapons like nail clippers or more than 3 ounces of toothpaste on board.
But wait, it gets better. Federal VIPs are exempt. And so continues the unlawful practice of giving our lawgivers a different set of rules to follow.
President Obama seems to also believe lawful search and seizure includes taking random women aside and asking them to remove prosthetic breasts or reaching up her skirt or sexually assaulting them.
And I don’t think my wife or children will be traveling with me by plane in the near future:
And if you have the time, just look at what happens when a woman tries to carry (queue “Dun-Dun-DUNNNNN”), breast milk through security.
President Obama, the TSA is nothing but a poor excuse for bullying. Shame on your predecessor for saddling us with it and shame on you for continuing and even justifying this stupid organization’s existence.
Transportations. Moving on to stupid policies that could be but aren’t yet. Our head of Transportation wants to put a jammer in cars to prevent the use of cell phones while driving. You need to call 911? Too bad. You can’t while in your vehicle. I didn’t grow up and move out so I could have another baby sitter. Feds, Don’t Tread on Me!
Zero Tolerance. And even more absurdity. The only idealogy that could possibly justify this kind of absurdity is the notion that the mere temptation to sin is what causes sin. However, we know of scripture this is definitely not the case. (James 1:14-15) That we live in a society where a professional thinks this could be reasonable is just so strange.
DO NOT READ. After reading all of that, this seems pretty sane.
Creation. Fred Butler has posted some videos from a guy who’s got a book out to refute some of Dawkins. Looks interesting. I also liked this article regarding the optimization of eyes and the difficulty this presents for evolutionary theory.
Cheers.
