Archive for April, 2009

“Truth and Love Will Prevail Over Lies and Hate.”

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Posted at FirstThings.com
By Ryan Sayre Patrico

Maggie Gallagher on why she’s not giving up the fight against same-sex marriage:

“Truth and love wlll prevail over lies and hate.” On that basis Havel took on the Soviet empire. Where is that invincible empire now?

Same-sex marriage is founded on a lie about human nature: ‘there is no difference between same-sex and opposite sex unions and you are a bigot if you disagree’.

Political movements can—sometimes at great human cost and with great output of energy—sustain a lie but eventually political regimes founded on lies collapse in on themselves…

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Fighting Words about the Bible?

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Mr. Ehrman was the subject of a conversation I had yesterday with a couple of friends so I thought this article (below) was interesting when I read it this morning.  Having read and listened to Mr. Ehrman I find his arguments thinner than air and not serious in the least.  However weak they may be Mr. Ehrman’s arguments should be refuted and the Gospel proclaimed.  -jw

Fighting Words about the Bible?
by Albert Mohler
Monday, April 13, 2009

The Monday “On Religion” feature in USA Today is consistently interesting, even if often exasperating. That is what should be expected of an opinion column — strong opinions in both the column and the reaction it prompts. Well, get ready to form your own opinion about today’s feature, for it is likely to make a lot of waves.

Tom Krattenmaker, a Portland, Oregon based member of the paper’s Board of Contributors, levels a broadside attack on the unity, inspiration, and veracity of the Bible…

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It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President

Friday, April 10th, 2009

April 10, 2009
by Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea’s missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed:

“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something. The world must stand together to prevent the spread of these weapons. Now is the time for a strong international response.”

A more fatuous presidential call to arms is hard to conceive. What “strong international response” did Obama muster…

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