Christian fantasy literature, and commentary on assorted subjects
From November 17, 2018
Secularists love to pat themselves on the back for “humanizing Christianity.” Excuse me for a moment: this deserves an appropriate response.
What do they mean, they “humanize Christianity”? I think it means they invent a new-improved model–with Christ taken out of it and replaced by man-made idols, the State and Science, and humanist pseudo-sacraments: abortion, combating “Man-Made Climate Change,” same-sex “marriage,” sex change operations, hate speech trials, and every conceivable variety of fornication. They take away the judgment, take away accountability to God, and set up their political masters and scientific oracles as gods.
How does a secularist even know what’s right or wrong? Mostly they’re content to keep some of the moral law handed down to the human race by God, to the Jews first, and then the Gentiles. But no secularist can actually explain why it’s wrong to commit a murder. We can, but they can’t. For convenience’s sake they retain much of the law and tradition amassed over the centuries by Jews and Christians, who received it from a righteous and infallible God who is a person, who made them in His image, and who loves them.
Yeah, they made Christianity nicer. That’s why more people were murdered by their own governments in the 20th century alone–Red China, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and a host of others–secularist governments all–than were killed off by all the religions of the world put together in all the other centuries put together. This century is only 18 years old: give it time to come up with new and exciting deviltries all its own.
It is true that God endows all people, even atheists, with common grace, which is an inborn attraction to what is right and good. And so it was always possible for people who had never heard of God’s laws to keep those laws regardless. Common grace is the law written on our hearts. Humanity wouldn’t have survived for two hours without it.
The words of Jesus Christ and His apostles don’t need “humanizing,” and never did.
God defend us from being conformed to this fallen world.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AV6Xagff5/
I hope this link works. His speech is around 15 minutes long. Watch it if you have the time but have your vomit bag on your lap. He is a wacko feminist, among other things.
And this is what the Dems want in the Senate.
From January 1, 2013
OK, I was up rather late last night. Couldn’t be helped. Our town has a midnight fireworks extravaganza that makes our building jiggle up and down.
Breakfast: a nice bowl of New England clam chowder. I like to sprinkle a bit of pepper on it. But I absent-mindedly screwed off the top and a whole bunch of pepper spilled out. So my soup was quite a bit hotter than I like it.
On the radio comes a blurb for the new movie version of The Great Gatsby. It “stars” Leonardo DiCaprio: sort of like casting a monkey in the title role. It also has a “music” soundtrack created by a couple of rappers screaming bloody murder while throwing their instruments down a long flight of stairs. You can hear it on youtube. I thought at first that it was the ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald coming to take vengeance, with legions of demons at his back. This is cinematic crime of a very high order.
Then, when the wind outside died down, I thought I’d smoke a nice cigar outside. My habit is to poke a little hole at one end of the cigar with a knitting needle, so it will draw smoothly. I butchered the job; now the cigar won’t smoke at all. Couldn’t even get it lit. *sigh*
The rest of the year has just got to be better than this. As General Custer famously said, “We’ve got ’em now, boys!”
Yes, somehow I thought today was Thursday. I ran around like a maniac, straightening and tidying because the phone tech was coming. When I was on the phone with my friend in Florida, it came up in conversation that it was Wednesday. Well, that sure gave me a jump on tomorrow.
I think the butcher who fills the online orders at WholeFoods must have been drinking on the job when I put my order in yesterday. Yesterday, instead of loin lamb chops, he sent a different cut. And today when I opened up what were supposed to be boneless short ribs, it was a nice small pot roast. Fine, I’ll take it. Whole Foods has a very detailed system. After every delivery you are sent a questionnaire–they want to know if you are satisfied, if not, why and ask what they can do to correct it. If they make a substitution and you are not happy, they will refund your money. It is a great system and I have always been happy with their choices.
Another thing–Lee’s manuscript has not arrived at Chalcedon yet. Hopefully it will get there today. I have the tracking number, but I sincerely hope it does not come to that.
Well that’s about it for today.
Pray for our troops.
God bless everybody.
Patty
I laughed my head off at this. No pretentious comments by the reviewers.
This sweet boy is now mostly an indoor cat.