Monday, January 26, 2015

Panentheism is the logical conclusion of fully realized eschatology

It takes a special form of delusional thinking in its own right to mistake what is for the kingdom of God:

Only an arrogant, delusional Jesus would have claimed divinity or predicted resurrection, Borg noted, adding, “We have categories of psychology for people who talk that way about themselves. ... [W]e and everything that is are in God. God is not something else. God is right here and all around us. We are within God. The best way to refer to God is You, the You who is right here.”

-- the late Marcus Borg, quoted here

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Oral cardiac defilement syndrome

 
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

-- Matthew 15:18ff.

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Catholic George Weigel says Charlie Hebdo is as corrosive of decency as the jihadists are destructive of order

The Holy Trinity by Charlie Hebdo's Luz
Quoted here:

Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many people’s most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions. I won’t describe its cover cartoon lampooning the doctrine of the Trinity after the Catholic bishops of France had opposed so-called “gay marriage;” if that cover was not pornographic, than the word “pornographic” has no meaning.

In the world of Charlie Hebdo, sadly, all religious convictions (indeed all serious convictions about moral truth) are, by definition, fanaticism—and thus susceptible to the mockery of the “enlightened.” But that crude caricature of religious belief and moral conviction is false; it’s adolescent, if not downright childish; it inevitably lends itself to the kind of vulgarity that intends to wound, not amuse; and over the long haul, it’s as corrosive of the foundations of a decent society as the demented rage of the jihadists who murdered members of Charlie Hebdo’s staff.

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Mollie Hemingway is trying to serve two masters: God and journalism

I understand she's a Lutheran, Missouri Synod. It used to be a very conservative denomination. Predictably one of their members would be upset by the lengths to which liberals will go to outrage the sensibilities of scrupulous religious believers, such as Lutherans. And I think she is one of those.

But what she's calling for here in The Federalist is The New York Times to outrage the sensibilities of Muslims like it does every other scrupulous religious sect. How dare they, The New York Times, stick it to Orthodox Jews but shrink from offending Muslims!

OK, The New York Times is hypocritical, along with a bunch of other news outlets. That's supposed to be news?

In picking this fight Mollie Hemingway has chosen journalism over God. Her journalistic sensibilities are more outraged than are her religious sensibilities.

Religious people should be upset about deliberate attempts by the press to offend all religious people, not just some. This includes Muslims. But so far I don't hear anyone saying this except for Pope Francis, and Bill Donohue of the Catholic League.

All I'm hearing from so-called conservatives in America is the call to jump on the pig pile supporting Charlie Hebdo, the now defacto organ of the secularist dogma in the West.

How come? Have you all lost your minds?


Friday, January 16, 2015

The Book of Proverbs counsels self-censorship

"A fool vents all his feelings, But a wise man holds them back." 

-- Proverbs 29:11

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Have you noticed it's the godless communists provoking Muslims, not the Christians?

Charlie Hebdo was and still is full of godless communists, like Corinne "Coco" Rey, who let the terrorists into the offices to kill all her colleagues.

Friday, January 2, 2015

Colossians says (last third of the first century) the gospel is already come "in all the world"

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

-- Colossians 1:5f.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

-- Matthew 24:14