David1960 wrote:
How does one become Amish?

I REALLY appreciate Penn Jillette's candor, which is very illuminating regarding where he is, and where we (Christian believers) are.

His plea for some kind of "Rosetta Stone" to help him understand (and believe) what he reads in the Bible was convicting to me, in that I'm so often unmindful of the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in my own life and the lives of all believers.

Without the Spirit we'd be as lost as Mr. Jillette presently is even though both we and he have the entire Word of God available to us.

Not your pope wrote:
Reformed: Once saved always saved.
Homosexual: Once gay always gay.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
What's the Republican alternative? The Republican healthcare plan:
"First, Don't get sick."
"Second, if you do get sick, die quickly!"

I was always taught and told that the very Government-run healthcare programs Grayson and his ilk are so fond of are the same ones that actually produce the effects he ascribes to Republicans and their plans in the above quote (Is this an example of psychological projection?).

Obama himself even went so far as to suggest people might want to "take a pill" (i.e. self-euthanize--"die quickly") during an Obamacare q&a session a few months back.

jpw wrote:
Evangelical Christians are fully and willingly participating in their own eugenics...

It was widely considered the "enlightened" thing to do at the time.

Mike wrote:
Truly a inspiring family. Praying for comfort of the whole family.

Today I have nothing but admiration for large families like this and others who resolved to not be intimidated by the overpopulation fear-mongering so prevalent near the end of the baby boom, which coincided with my own formative years.

My family and I, and people of my generation would frequently mock our Catholic and Mormon neighbors for "endangering the world" by their "reckless incontinence".

A later, more honest reading of the Bible, and Julian Simon's The Ultimate Resource, finally persuaded me that much of the overpopulation fears that I was taught in my youth were unfounded.

(lol--if achingly!).

That's one for the ages, or at least one that I will definitely remember. Thank you.

I've long been suspicious of a possible link (both spiritually and physically) between birth control (wind) and breast cancer (whirlwind), being that God is not mocked and we eventually reap what we sow.

Neil wrote:
John SJ,
No offense taken!
For about a century now, I think the Far Left has dominated the critique of mainstream Progressive foreign policy, which has made it very difficult for a non-Marxist, Constitutionalist view, such as Ron Paul is voicing, to be taken seriously.
Recall the Vietnam War. The debate over it was dominated by mainstream containment Progressives of both parties, & various screwball leftists including old-school Communist sympathizers. Was anybody ready to hear anything like what Ron Paul is saying now?
Recall that the last publicly credible opposition lobby, the American Anti-Imperialist League, disbanded in 1921, & in any case, it had several prominent leftists in it, like John Dewey & Samuel Gompers.

Pat Buchannan is the only previous Republican presidential candidate that comes to my mind that even remotely resembles Ron Paul on foreign policy.

Neil wrote:
Recall that the US supported the 1953 Mordad Coup installing the Shah instead of the duly elected Mosaddegh, in part because of US/UK fears over oil nationalization.

The more noble-sounding goal of "containing the Soviet menace" through Nato, Seato, and Cento (of which Iran was supposed to be a hub) was what was taught in my HS history classes. No mention what-so-ever regarding oil interests. Guess we all got "the cover story", which was mostly true, but denied information regarding the more mundane economic aspects of our foreign policy.

Angela Wittman wrote:
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the link to the BBC article... In all truthfulness, I am approximately 6 hours from Chicago in downstate Illinois and unfamiliar with Chigago's history.

Claymore wrote:
Yesexcellent post But John SJ you are damned forever because you went to one of those evil, demonic, public schools. Attending government schools places you beyond ALL hope of grace.

kenny wrote:
No Christian parent should EVER turn their child over to the government to be educated.

Much as I'd love to have attended Christian school from k-12th grade, my parents saw public school as a bargain--especially since they were paying into it already (via property taxes) and couldn't afford private school.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
It seems like God criticized many rulers that he had removed, King Saul, being one. So yes, I'll criticize "Bumbling" Bush, actually I'm being very polite,

John Yurich USA wrote:
Just what exactly is an atheist Bible anyway?

Neil wrote:
I wonder if they'll try this with the Dolly Llama? Probably not; that would hit too close to home (Buddhism being fashionable among the Jet Set).