In a panicked attempt to deflect attention away from an increasingly desperate president, the Fourth Estate is trying to interest us in the purported gaffes of two Republican candidates — first Akin, and now Mourdock — on the subject of pregnancy that is the result of rape. So let’s talk about that for a minute. …
Limbering Up His Bow
The heart of sin is lawlessness. This means that sin desires to recognize no will outside of its own. There is only one will, and Nietzsche is his prophet. The cleanest shot to this result is, of course, atheism, but to think that this is the only way to get to that result is to …
But America Isn’t Jesus
The most apropos tweet concerning the debate last night came from John Piper: “Obama: America, the only indispensable nation. Romney: America, the hope of the earth. This does focus our prayers for them.” I want to get to that in a moment, but first let me just affirm the consensus that appears to be developing. …
Father-Driven Adoption
We live in polarized times, and it shows up in many issues. One of the unfortunate consequences of this is that if you say that a particular course of action might have any negative consequences anywhere, you must be against that course of action. You must be an enemy of it. If you think home …
Jackie Robinnson Whiffs It
I have already written some about how I think the election is going to go, and this is related to that. This is not the same subject, but is related to it. A cynic might say that this is only a different subject in the sense that I am doing post-election analysis before the election …
Buttering the Stage
I TIVOed the debate last night, and then hopped my way through it, like it was an ankle deep muddy stream. I got enough to get a decent feel for it, without subjecting my sanctification to the blah blah parts.So here are just a few random observations, which I would ask all to take cum …
As Thin As Obama’s Skin
I watched enough of the just released footage of Obama’s 2007 race baiting video — just enough to get a load of his accent, an accent thick enough to pogo-stick across — to think I should jot down a few things here about mendacity. Or perhaps it would be best to speak of brazen mendacity. …
A Tall Tree and a Short Rope
[Trigger warning: strident feminism pretending not to be] Sarah Moon writes here about complementarianism’s “ugly relationship with rape.” She poses two questions of us bad people, and they are as follows — first, how do we define rape? And secondly, what do we propose to do about it? Okay. I would define rape as having …
If Obama Wins . . .
If Obama wins — which is a real possibility — certain things follow. I mean certain things will follow other than the zombie apocalypse which will tragically end with a horde of them eating the republic’s brains. One of the results will be the chortling comments pointing out that I predicted this wouldn’t happen, which …
The World’s Largest Daisy Chain
There is an argument against homosexual marriage that I have offered from time to time which has been met with a strange sort of incredulity. It came up again the other night during the Q&A after my debate with Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, and so I thought I should jot …