Just precisely in what sense do we have a conscience? We are aware of good and evil, right and wrong, in a relative sense. We have the law of God written on our hearts, is that our conscience? If so, then God also has the law of God written on His heart, so [...]
Today at God’s Politics, Tim King, special assistant to the CEO of Sojourners, needs an economics lesson when he complains about his college loans. I wonder if any of their interns ever studied econ?
I got my student loan statement and just as promised it was 50 dollars less a month. What I hadn’t expected [...]
I was perusing the aisles of the university library when I came across the multiple-volume sets of the papers of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and others. I started to wonder whether there would ever be a multiple volume set of the papers of Nathanael Snow.
We have volumes full of correspondence from John and [...]
Suppose the Somali pirates keep up their shenanigans. Hijacking boats and collecting ransom. Suppose the world’s navies are put to the task of protecting merchant vessels. Does this increase the risk of conflict among those navies? Does it get them to work together more? Does it keep them from doing harm elsewhere?
Does it have any [...]
G. K. Chesterton (whom is never read without illumination):
The term “pagan” is continually used in fiction and light literature as meaning a man without any religion, whereas a pagan was generally a man with about half a dozen. The pagans, according to this notion, were continually crowning themselves with flowers and dancing about [...]
Where does the incentive to torture come from? Is it not among the most fearful of responses? Is it not the ultimate demonstration of justifying the means by the ends? Who can practice torture and expect to escape any consequences?
These are not conservative problems. Liberals practice the same philosophy, only they have different [...]
out of grad school, it is because of conversations like these at God’s Politics.
People ask why I bother to engage that audience at all, and it is because I sometimes find myself in discussion with open-minded individuals who can think and challenge my ideas, or at least force me to articulate my beliefs more clearly. [...]
At the end of the day, what would you add to this fairly unique list? With all due respect, I personally, at this moment in time, absolutely shouldn’t of suggested that it’s not rocket science because 24/7 people are saying this and it is literally a nightmare.
I have posted the following on the God’s Politics blog in a discussion of who’s responsibility the least of these are:
Nations means people of the nation, not the government of the nation. I Samuel shows us that God never intended a centralized government in Israel, but the law of Moses and the judges, decentralized.
Therefore the [...]
Gavel Bang to Minnesota Independent.
(btw, I’d LOVE one of these for Christmas!)