Theology That Bites Back
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So all eyes will be on Alabama because of the senatorial election tomorrow. And why not? 2017 has not really been gaudy enough to date, and so I think it should try to go out with a bang. For those Christians in Alabama who have a functioning conscience, and who have to decide what to …
[Speaking of Hugh Hewitt’s idea that Ground Zero in New York is a secular sacred space] “This is the kind of political analysis that a freshman in the Eusebian School of Panegyrics might have written for his first homework assignment, late in the evening and after a couple of beers” (Empires of Dirt, p. 60).
So then, as Dylan said, you don’t have to be a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. Progressives like to pretend that they are “the Resistance,” but the real resistance is going to have to come from people who believe the Bible, all of it. And one of the key battlegrounds with …
“History is littered with examples of empires, nations, and cities that fell to inferior forces when by all rights they should not have” (Empires of Dirt, p. 58).
“The Muslims are coming after the values of our hollow secularism, and watching it is not like watching an actual contest—it is like watching someone take a jackhammer to a soufflé” (Empires of Dirt, p. 57).
After some reflection, I have decided to disable the comments feature here at Mablog. I think there are advantages to this, obviously, or I wouldn’t do it. But at the same time, there are disadvantages. I trust that we have come up with a solution that will ameliorate, at least somewhat, those disadvantages. This post …
“Theocracy is necessary and inescapable. Ecclesiocracy is, among other things, quite an appalling thought” (Empires of Dirt, p. 56).
Another round of allegations came out over the last several days. These are allegations that Moore is now contradicting himself—i.e. that he acknowledged more in his Hannity interview than he is acknowledging out on the stump now. Now if he said in one place that he knew some of the girls and in another place …
“But that was before the rot of postmodernism set in, the reductio that made all our crackerjack thinkers realize (some of them reluctantly) that our great Kantian sky hook wasn’t actually bolted to anything, and one man’s guess was as good as another’s” (Empires of Dirt, p. 56).
