“Liberal can be honest in their unbelief, and conservatives can be dishonest in their profession of faith. You can believe in the resurrection of the dead, and also devour widow’s houses.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 57
Skeery Scary Skeery
Introduction: The man running all our CN takeover operations from a hollow mountain in remote Idaho . . . As the inauguration of Donald Trump approaches, the confirmation hearings of his cabinet appointments also approach. As I write, Pete Hegseth had his hearing yesterday, although I have to say that, from some of the questioners, …
Replace All the Crows
“A word from Your lips, just a nod of Your head,
And white doves would take the place of these crows.
Replace all the crows that caw from dead pulpits,
And bring life to Your people, revive them again.”
21 Prayers, p. 129
A Distant Parallel
“If we were looking for a term in English that had a similar etymology and cachet as ‘Pharisee,’ it would be something like the term ‘Puritan.’ Both words indicate some kind of desire for separation and holiness. Like Pharisaism, Puritanism was noble in its founding, had some glorious exemplars, was doctrinally rigorous, went to seed after a few centuries, and is now easy to mock.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 56
So. Letters About the Devil Beating His Wife.
Letter to the Editor: Re: A Christian Take on Conspiracy Thought, I must offer a corrective. Having lived 70 years, I know, based on what my Mom, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother ...
Down to the Present
“The difference is much wider than the fact that Christians have both the Old and New Testaments while the Jews have the Old Testament. Rather, the distinction is that Christians have the entire Word of God while the Jews have an Old Testament which they have in effect nullified with their traditions. This process was already well underway when Jesus rebuked it, and it has continued down to the present, with the Jews unrepentant.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 53
The Revenge of the Blue Collar White Guy
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Not to be Harmonized
“So according to Christ, the rabbis had been supplanting the teaching of the Word of God for the sake of their traditions, and they had been doing this for centuries [Mark 7:6-13]. To be clear, what Jesus is talking about here is a gradually forming Talmud.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 47-48
No Need, Thanks
Jesus and the Talmud
“Replacing the Temple system with the tradition of the elders resulted in what might be called the triumph of Pharisaism, and the Talmud is the monument to that triumph. Prior to the judgment on Jerusalem, they already had a few centuries of a wrong-footed head start; the traditions that Jesus so violently rejected were the traditions of the first half of the Talmudic stream. Indeed, the Talmudic traditions of the elders were the reason why Jerusalem was judged so severely.”
American Milk and Honey, pp. 49-50