Down for the 10 count

 3 Christians givin' it to the atheists on the chin. Go boys!

 Round 1: Mike S. Adams softens 'em up

 Round 2: Dinesh D'Souza continues the clobberin'

Round 3: Chuck Norris finishes 'em off with a roundhouse kick

Right, Left, Right, Wrong

Wow! Where did the time go? Months since I last posted. How can it be? Life, man, life.

Any which way, I've been thinking about this whole gay marriage/Prop 8 thingy. I understand the ire from the advocates, especially those really wanting to tie the knot. I know I'd be pretty hacked off if I couldn't do something that others in society can . . . hey, wait a minute, come to think of it, all of us everyday are faced with this. 

Like, not all teen-agers can drive. Only those of a certain age (which varies by state, as is proper). How fair is that!? Why that's down right discriminatory. Darned laws. Teenage-ists! Shame, shame! Why, I think under-age teens should sue for their right to drive! Ya, that's it! Let 'em all behind the wheel. Let's just redefine "legal driver." No problemo.

Oh, wait, there's more you say? Like, oh, I dunno, umm, legal drinking age?

How's about how old you have to be to by cancer sticks? 

Can I marry more than 1 person at the same time? What?! No? Not in any state? Off to Supreme Court, go I, to get my "right" to marry not just who, but how many whos, I wanna. Now, that would be good law, right there, yessiree.

I think I should be allowed to marry my cousin(s) too, while I'm at it. It just ain't "right" that I ain't got no legal "right" to marry any person of my choosing. Man, I hate this "free" society. What a joke! Keepin' me oppressed like this is just plain un-right. Somebody oughta fix it.

That's it. I'm so hacked off right now about how many rights I don't have, I have to go sleep off the frustration, depression, anger, and "poor me" attitude.

Trifecta

The 3 links below take you to really cool articles about really smart scientists who are telling us how really close to humans animals are (or is it how close to animals humans are? I forget). Italian turtles, white-coated brainiacs from Europe studying cows, and monkeys who share just for the joy of it. What a grand day for evolution!

• I feel like pasta tonight 
  
• "Go north, young cows!"
  
• Share, and share alike 
  

Night Stand

I'm currently reading "Rejoicing in the Lord Jesus in All Cases and Conditions" (Robert Asty), and thoroughly enjoying it. I started it once before, but couldn't get into it. This time, though, something's different and everytime I close it, I can't wait for the next time I can open it up. Give your spirit a lift and read this book!

(available from fine Puritan book sellers every where, like Grace & Truth Books)

The Anti-Civil Anti-Liberties Union

I think it is hugely ironic that an organization that claims to defend the civil liberties of U.S. citizens, is neither civil in its attempts to do so, nor really liberating anyone. Instead, they use threats of law suits and other bullying tactics so that weenies don't have to suck it up and learn to get along in a pluralistic society simply because they're "offended." So what. Get over it. 

Their most recent attempt at defending civil liberties is to threaten a law suit (that's the anti-civil part) against the U.S. Naval Academy to force them to stop the non-sectarian, completely optional/totally voluntary moment of prayer before each noon-time meal (that's the anti-liberties part). This is a tradition that has been in place since the founding of the Academy. (ACLJ.org has the whole deal.) What part of non-sectarian, and optional/voluntary, do they not understand? This is a joke.

I'm sure that since its founding, 1000's of ir-/non-religious cadets have gotten by without their dainty sensibilities being ruined by this 2-minute (if that) prayer time. 

The ACLU's attempt to expunge any expression of Christianity (Islamic expressions are A-OK with them, though) from the public, and now military, sector are laughable and infuriating at the same time. 

Why don't they actually spend time and money defending liberties, like the liberty of Freedom of Religious Expression? Or the liberty to not have to send a kid to school within eye-shot of a convicted pervert? Or how about the liberty to ignore or otherwise not participate in someone else's "offensive" behavior? 

Get over yourselves, ACLU.

The NEA (Non-Education Association)

Phyllis Schlafly does an excellent job of highlighting some of the more frightening resolutions passed by National Education Association delegates at this year's annual convention, which took place ironically enough over the 4th of July weekend. 

Unlike the NEA web site, I'll openly post the link to the 2008 NEA Annual Meeting Resolutions. Oddly, without doing a search on the NEA web site, you can't find the resolutions. Hmm. Guess they don't want us educated about their resolutions.

Instead of discussing meaningful ways to better teach Johnny how to read or Suzy how to write--which should take about 10 minutes, because the method really hasn't changed in millenia--our nation's "educators" are passing resolutions like this:

• statehood for the District of Columbia (H-11)
  
• single-payer health care (H-7)
  
• gun control (I-31)
  
• ratification of the International Criminal Court Treaty (I-3)
  
• fair housing for everyone in America (I-22)
  
• non-violence against woman and girls worldwide (I-25) (guess it's OK for men & boys)
  
• opposition to home schooling (B-75)
  
• no moment of silence (I-30)
  
• complete control (read "no parental notification") of physical and mental health of children (C-23)

and my favorite, "B-35. Multicultural Education," which equivocates homosexuality with race and ethnicity--basically calling it just another "culture."

"Please, sir, I want some more."

More Pudding Proof

The Codex Sinaiticus Project has finally started publishing the oldest known Bible manuscript to the web. This document is dated to about the year 350, and contains several books of the Bible, such as 1 Chronicles, Psalms, and the gospel of Mark. 

The Codex is significant because of its age, its condition, and its contents. It is a true book of antiquity, something most of us have never seen, so having it at our fingertips is remarkable.

I'm sure this document in and of itself won't make a convert of anyone, but it goes a long way to shutting the mouths of detractors and skeptics of Biblical antiquity.  

Evolution caught in the act!

See for yourself. Is it not clear, my friends, that this is an evolutionary step for deer becoming humans? Surely you see how the genes are putting forth a noble attempt to make this fawn superior to others of its kind.

Perhaps they (genes) were thinking that if the deer had 6 legs -- specifically 2 more in back -- that it could run faster thus giving it a better chance of crossing the road without getting hit by a car, thus increasing its chances of survival. 

Or maybe they (the genes again) were trying to work out a system whereby sometimes the deer navigated on 2 front and 2 rear legs (like "normal"), but sometimes he would be able to rear back on all 4 hind legs. The 2x2 transportation mode is optimal for regular grazing, frolicking, and other Bambi-like behavior common to most deer. The all-rear-leg-drive system might be advantageous, however, say, should all of the ground-based and eye-level food sources start to disappear and "Fawny" need to reach higher food sources. And no one will argue--not even a good Bible-thumping creationist--that eating is necessary for one's survival. And almost everyone also agrees that walking up-right is way better than walking on all 4's all the time.

So, I think it is a coup for modern secular science to have this animal on film, since it is such an obvious intermediate stage of deer on its natural Darwinian step up to humanity.

Go evolution!

Oh, my gosh! He just said the B-word!

A few years back I read a book of fairy tales (that's "fairy," as in the magical woodland creatures of make-believe) rewritten to be politically correct. (Sadly the book is out of print. Happily, there are still hundreds of copies available at Amazon). It is a total laugh-fest. After hearing about this, though, I think James Finn Garner needs to publish an updated edition. Good grief, where does it end?

Irony

The title says it all. Read about it here.

What's God got to do with it?

To all my sincere Christian Arminian friends out there, who believe that man freely chooses to be saved, here are 2 serious question for you:

1. If man chooses to be saved, freely and of his own will without the help of outside influence from God the Holy Spirit moving on him, then why do you pray to God for someone's salvation? 

Let me put it another way. You believe God does not/won't violate man's will in the process of salvation, right? Then on what basis do you pray to God for someone to be saved? Borrowing from Tina Turner, "What's God got to do with it?", then? Isn't your position just wishful thinking?

2. Where is it written that man's free will is inviolable by God? Can you show me even 1 verse, or give me 1 example from scripture, that demonstrates that our wills/natures are taboo to God? Isn't your theological view actually putting man's will above God's in this one instance, thus making an idol out of our free choice/will? Doesn't this view point then make God subject to our wills?

Yes, No, Maybe?

So I'm readin' an article today about whether or not scientists should start relocating species -- animal & plant -- in order to save them, presumably from the effects of so-called "global warming" and other "bad" human effects on the environment (Side note: when I was a kid in middle school in the 70's, we were told by "scientists" that the world was definitely headed for another cataclysmic ice age. I wonder what ever happened to that?).

Anyway, these goofballs that have shrines to Darwin in their solar-powered saunas aren't really thinkin' like their hero, now are they? Stop and think about it. What is the cardinal axiom of Darwinian evolution? "Survival of the fittest," right? So, if these fungi don't figure out a way to grow legs and move to a suitable climate on their own, then to heck with 'em! They don't deserve to survive. That's just "nature's" way of weeding them out, ain't it?

And if the furry little Fooze-beaked Logglewhopper doesn't develop opposable thumbs in time to open the door to a cab and hitch a ride outta his little habitat that we're heatin' up with our SUVs, oh well, tough noogies.

If they were consistent Darwinists, they would leave it all alone and let the blind forces of nature take care of it all. Apparently they don't really believe Darwin either.

Gotta' love inconsistency.

Opening Address

Theology gone bad.

I'm sure these 5 guys, whoever & wherever they are, mean well, but are they for real? The sad thing is in today's Christian culture--especially in the U.S.--they'll make a fortune. 

Not as good as my idea for a financial holdings/investment service for those who believe in reincarnation, though. Now there's an idea! I just couldn't in clear conscience do that to people, even pagans. Oh well, watchya gonna do?