Theology That Bites Back
The main category for book reviews and cultural interaction.
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).
The situation described in the following letters is entirely fictitious, including persons, names, crimes, sins, relationships, circumstances and all particulars. The kind of situation that is described, however, is all too common and my hope is that biblical principles applied to this fictitious scenario may be of some help to individuals tangled up in a …
I really enjoyed Taleb’s book The Black Swan, and picked up his Antifragile shortly after it came out. I started it, and was enjoying it, but stalled out for some reason. I don’t remember. It was dark. They were big. His book found itself in my lamentably large and scattered collection of partly read books. …
“’Western values’ as an appeal works only if it is a coded reference to Christendom, and that only works if Christ is still there . . . Anything else is a couple of dogs fighting over a piece of meat” (Empires of Dirt, p. 54).
So yesterday I had a conversation with my daughter-in-law about this, and then later in the day a friend in another state wrote me with the same basic question. Taking this for a sign, or perhaps an omen, or possibly a portent, I decided to take a swing at the topic here. Given the same …
If I were a resident of the state of Alabama, and given what we currently know about the accusations and denials concerning Roy Moore, I would vote for him in the upcoming special election for the U.S. Senate. Here are some of the reasons. I take it as a given that if he is guilty …
