Texas Senate Rejects Confirmation of Creationist

dws689 »

Sat May 30, 2009 9:48 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 2

Has anyone noticed this is the new liberal strategy-- don't say you oppose someone because he is conservative, say you oppose him because he is "divisive". All liberals are unifiers, and all conservatives are divisive, in this view. The idea is to get conservatives to buy into it, to say, oh, you don't have to stop being conservative, just stop actually _voting_ conservative, because it is "divisive." I hope people will wake up to this insidious strategy!

Ex-Caedmon's Call Member in Hot Water Over New Album ... Maybe

dws689 »

Wed May 27, 2009 8:40 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 2

I listened to one Derek Webb album. Two words: terminal pretentiousness.

Judge Rules Against Christian Univ. Group

dws689 »

Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:55 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 3

This is the tip of the iceberg. It is coming to your church. A way to legally persecute churches.

Conservatives Intensify Attacks on Obama

dws689 »

Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:18 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 2

When you see an article like this one that says "favors abortion rights" you know the author is liberal. Would they say pro-slave people in the South "favored whipping rights"? That Hitler "favored rights of people to Jewish free zones"? Remember what we are talking about-- dismembered babies, not generic "rights".

Americans Get to Know Once-Obscure Alaska Governor

dws689 »

Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:40 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

Obama: 8 years as Illinois statehouse back bencher, never an author of a law.
Palin: ten years as mayor of town with 1100 businesses.
Obama: 3 years as Senator, half of which spent running for president, never author of a law.
Palin: 2 years as governor of state with 6 billion dollar budget, several new laws passed.
Why does no one say: It's insulting to blacks that someone with such limited experience would be selected on the basis of his skin color.

McCain's VP Pick: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

dws689 »

Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:39 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

Ok pro-lifers: we wanted a pro-life VP pick and now we have one. Now is the time to put your money where your mouth is and donate!

McCain's VP Pick: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

dws689 »

Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:26 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Wow, I am shocked by the age discrimination and sexism on this forum. McCain is old and will pop off, so we can't elect him... that could get you sued if you said that in the business world... and Palin is "just" picked because she is a woman... let's give her no credit for her actual 4 years experience (more than Obama) or intelligence. Get out of the caves, people!

Democrats Strive to Show They Got Religion Too

dws689 »

Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:01 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

I would distinguish between basic healthcare to prevent the extremes, as we have basic clean water, but not everything can be covered. There is no end to the things people would like to have done medically.
The biggest problem with medicine is lawsuits which drive up the costs. Millions of dollars go to malpractice lawyers. Every doctor I know says the costs are around $100,000 per year per doctor for malpractice insurance-- and all that cash goes to the hands of lawyers ultimately. Why does no one protest that? And guess which party is in the pocket of rich lawyers? Why is that better than helping doctors and businessmen, who at least produce something of value to people?

Democrats Strive to Show They Got Religion Too

dws689 »

Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:51 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

Regarding parties, I don't believe in saying a party is God's party. But I do believe that some parties get it mostly wrong some times, such as the Bolsheviks, the National Socialists, and the pro-slavery Democrat party in the South before the Civil War, and the church should be unashamed to not treat them the same. If you can't vote for either, fine. But how can you vote for a party that has banned and pro-life speakers from its convention for the past 20 years?

Democrats Strive to Show They Got Religion Too

dws689 »

Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:48 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Here is another thing: no one in America is poor the way people in much of the rest of the world are poor. If you say otherwise you either have never been there, or you are a whiner. So it terms of priorities, stopping killing of babies, and helping the poor overseas have to be the top. How do we help the poor overseas? The main reason they suffer is oppressive and corrupt governments-- it is not money, as we give them cash every year and the governments steal it. How to we stop that? Stop supporting the UN which props up these fascists with moral authority, and have a foreign policy with teeth to confront dictators. Yet Obama is totally pro-UN and wants to legitimize dictators by having talks with them forever.

Democrats Strive to Show They Got Religion Too

dws689 »

Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:39 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Helping the poor is important, but there is a huge debate about that. If you look at how socialist policies have worked in other countries they have led to self-destruction, either under communism, or in Europe today, where no one can afford to have kids and they are going to die off in a generation. (And that was with Europe spending not a dime on its own defense.) On the other hand hard working capitalist countries produce jobs and wealth. So just well-meaning words about helping the poor aren't enough.
But even if you think socialism is the way to go, how can you put economics ahead of killing a whole population? Hitler helped the economy of Germany. Just look the other way about that "divisive" issue of killing Jews!
Here is the other thing: I am an academic at a secular university, and I can tell you that academics like Obama hate free speech and want to work to shut down Christian churches that preach against homosexuality, abortion, etc. Obama is not a Muslim, he is an academic leftist pure through. Check out the speech codes on campuses if you want to see what they would like to do with freedom of speech and religion in society in general.

Democrats Strive to Show They Got Religion Too

dws689 »

Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:40 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

What saddens me is that Christians are so desperate for any kind of recognition or approval from the world that this strategy will probably work: singing a few Gospel songs, having a megachurch pastor praying next to a Buddhist and a Muslim, will mean that some Christians will be so excited they will vote Democrat even though Obama and the party is committed to letting people kill babies all the way up to after they are born, not to mention all the other policies that will not change one bit.
Plus, Obama is promising a cash handout to faith-based ministries. Who can turn down that! Just as the government in the last century started handing out cash to local schools which turned into taking them over.
Why oh why do people think we have to be neutral about parties? If we lived in Europe in 1920 would we have to be neutral about the Nazi and Communist parties?

Pro-Huckabee Activists to Dissuade McCain on Romney Ticket

dws689 »

Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:39 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 2

P.S. Both Romney and Ridge are "stiffs" who will do nothing but add to the "rich white guy" image of the GOP. People don't want a CEO, they want someone who will fight for their values.

Pro-Huckabee Activists to Dissuade McCain on Romney Ticket

dws689 »

Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:37 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 4

Bot-- "somewhat different"? How about, polytheistic? According to the Mormon church, God the Father and Jesus were both men like us at one time, then attained godhood, and men alive today can become gods just like them.
But the reason I will not vote for Romney is not his religion, but his political opportunism. I don't believe for a minute he is really pro-life.

Presbyterians Comfortable with Female Leaders; Don't Prefer Them

dws689 »

Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:34 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Please do not refer to the PCUSA as "the Presbyterians". Would you refer to the Southern Baptist denomination as "the Baptists"? Or do the American Baptists have the right to be called "the Baptists"? There are several denominations of Presbyterians, including the fast-growing Presbyterian Church in America which is theologically conservative, evangelistic, and mission-minded, and has about 1/3 the Sunday morning attendance of the PCUSA. In addition many PCUSA congregations are heading to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Top Hamas Leader’s Son Converts to Christianity

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Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:52 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Pray for this fellow. By Muslim law, he must be killed by any good Muslim. I was in a Muslim-Christian dialogue group for several years and Muslim students explained that it is not true that all unbelievers must die, but it is true that anyone forsaking the faith must die. With the things he is saying, any Muslim would agree he must die.

In Defense of the CS Lewis's Pagan Prince Caspian

dws689 »

Thu May 08, 2008 12:05 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 1

Yes, anyone who has read CS Lewis knows that the longing for something deep and ancient is a strong theme in his writing. We love the old pagan stories because they stir in us a sense of the ancient, which in turn, Lewis argues, is coming from our deep longing for God. God is not mere philosophy but _story_.
By the way, I have not seen commented anywhere what seems to me obvious-- that Caspian is about the Reformation, the renewal of the old ways when Christ and the Apostles walked the earth, after the corruption of the church. It is followed by the Dawn Treader, the great expansion into the rest of the world which could only come after the house was in order, in the great missionary and economic expansion after the Reformation. And as Lewis includes in Dawn Treader, was not always done well-- he includes a chapter of fighting slavery.

Evangelicals Are Not Out Of The Race

dws689 »

Thu May 08, 2008 11:52 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 1

By the same logic, people in Germany should have voted for Hitler because he helped the economy and built good roads. He really lifted up the poor in Germany-- well, at least, most of them. And in our society we help the poor by telling them to kill off their babies. Not a major issue? Jim Wallis, you are selling out for the sake of some good roads!

'Expelled' Filmmakers Claim 'Over the Top' Success

dws689 »

Tue May 06, 2008 11:23 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Getting marching orders from Eugenie Scott's center, bloggers keep saying "not falsifiable"!
1) ID is of course falsifiable. Just produce one example of a new functional element of a life form with more than, say, 5 new complex proteins, which is produced in the lab by random processes, and ID is forever falsified.
2) Evolutionary origin of life theories are not falsifiable. No matter what the lack of evidence, materialist views of evolution will demand we hold out for some new evidence to come along. Anyone who knows microbiology (which I do, with a Ph.D) knows that there are dozens of "chicken and egg" problems with the origin of life, in that there the things needed to build other things, themselves must be built by those things. That means it is impossible for the things we have now to appear by themselves. But evolutionists posit a whole set of "scaffolding" which no longer exists to explain this state of things. If there ever was a non-falsifiable theory that is it-- proposing a whole set of things which do not exist, just to save a hypothesis.
3) Popperian falsifiablility has long been dead as a criterion of whether something is scientific. No single experiment has enough certainty to overturn well-established theories.