Randi Rhodes keeps harping on the idea that there’s a warped misogynistic, sado-masochistic, repressed-homosexuality theme running through a lot of what’s going on today in the Republican party and in our military fiasco in Iraq — phone sex with congressional pages, torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and black prisons, and of course, the wild popularity of …
Category: Christianity
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Mar 14 2007
Rushdoony
Yesterday, Monroe asked me: Aren’t there people in the USA who call themselves Christians who truly want a Theocracy here – somewhat like the Taliban described below? http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IC14Df03.html Absolutely. The scariest of the bunch (in my opinion) are the ones who follow and expand upon the teachings of Rousas John Rushdoony (1916 – 2001). He …
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Mar 10 2007
Baptists in Levantium
Interesting history. Thank you very much. I’m curious, because it wasn’t mentioned in the article and perhaps wasn’t germane, but how much Baptist work in Israel/Palestine is with Jewish (secular and confessing) persons and how much is with non-Jewish (i.e., Arab Christians and Muslims and non-Arab visiting pilgrims/tourists) persons? What are the ratios? Maybe I’ve …
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Mar 03 2007
What is trvth?
Posted by Mike West, NewStatesman.com, 07 March 2007 11:01 When Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’, he put his finger on a big issue. Many of us have been brought up with the belief that a thing can only be true if it can be proved scientifically. Even though post-modern philosophers have questioned assertions of …
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Dec 21 2006
Hallelujah!
Over the years, I’ve run into lots of people who passed through the artillery school at Ft. Sill. One of the most memorable was Jim Byrnes, at a small blues bar in Vancouver, BC. By the way, I made a grevious mistake in an earlier post. The official creed of the Church of Harmonic Convergence was “So, …
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Dec 21 2006
All about me
Several of you have have acquiesced to Thom Moore’s recent request for more details re. their academic credentials. I balked, because my first impression was that Thom’s initial angst (self-horror at the possibility of his own sense of elitism) reflected a basic reality: that there is, unfortunately, a certain degree of gravitas (that’s a nice way …
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Nov 15 2006
Random thought
To my pastor: Here’s one more observation that I meant to include the other day, but it slipped away before I could write it down. This is an example of eschatology in action. Not mine, but I thought of you when I heard this… A few days before the election, an angry American preacher was interviewed on …
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