Amazing Love, by Charles Wesley–we’ve posted it before as And Can It Be–has much to teach us about God’s love, and salvation in and by Jesus Christ Our Lord. And this is the Altar of Praise Chorale praising God with no musical instrument but their voices.
I think I might have posted this once before, but it’s still funny. Here are some cats, dogs, and birds in need of attitude adjustments. Tally-ho!
Kirk DouPonce has just emailed me his cover for Bell Mountain No. 10, The Silver Trumpet, and it’s a doozy. He painted the scene just as I imagined it when I was writing it. I don’t know how he does it.
I’ll have it displayed here, hopefully, sometime tomorrow.
Comment No. 20,000–hit it right on the nose, in fact–has been posted by “thewhiterabbit,” who thereby wins this latest comment contest.
I’m sorry that that last big prize fell through, and we will not have an undiscovered land mass named for him. They couldn’t discover one in time. So “thewhiterabbit” wins an autographed copy of one of my books.
So… let me know which book you want, and then email me your mailing address at leeduigon@verizon.net.
There will be more comment contests down the road, so if you want to win one someday, stay with me. And keep those comments coming!
Some people seem not to understand what a religion is, anymore. Any definition that would cover all the world’s religions would be so broad and vague that it wouldn’t apply to any one of them. But even without such a definition, we ought to be able to tell the difference between “religion” and humbug.
The new pseudo-religion of “kopimism” has recently made its way here from Sweden, where genuine religion appears to be in trouble (https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/04/20/kopimism-swedens-pirate-religion-begins-to-plunder-america). Although it’s been recognized as a religion by the Swedish government, critics say it’s nothing but window-dressing for Internet piracy.
Its head honcho, all of 20 years old, explains that kopimism (derived from “copy me”) is the sacred ritual of file-sharing, a ritual that concludes with the words, “copied and seeded.” He explains, “Data is what we are made of, data is what defines our life, and data is how we express ourselves… Information is holy, and that act of copying is holy.” Do you think this guy knows what the word “holy” means? I don’t.
But it’s really cool because it has no deity, so “spiritual” types will really like it. In Sweden it claims some 3,000 members.
As G.K. Chesterton said, when you stop believing in God, you don’t believe in nothing; you’ll believe in anything. And as R.J. Rushdoony observed, those who refuse to serve the real God are condemned to serve false gods.
Presuming that these people are sincere, and not just trying to steal other people’s stuff under cover of religion, what is this but pure idolatry–the worship of things made by human minds and hands?
Our fallen world does not need new religions. It needs Jesus Christ, the only One who can save it, and who is by right its natural Lord, the King of Kings.
Anything else is simply not true.
Historical Note: Movies to the contrary, only Muslim Vikings wore horned helmets.
Back on Oct. 13 we reported the “staggering” finding that there were Muslim grave goods in a Viking burial, indicating that the Vikings were markedly influenced by Islam, yatta-yatta blah-blah (see “Scholar (LOL) Thinks Vikings May Have Been Muslims). Clue: The, ahem, scholar who announced this works for the University of Uppsala in Sweden. That’s the country whose ruling class hates their own history and is eager to hand it over, lock, stock, and barrel, to invading Muslims. So turning Vikings into Muslims would serve a political purpose.
Now an expert in Islamic art and archeology has blown those “findings” to smithereens (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/allah-viking-burial-fabrics-false-kufic-inscription-clothes-name-woven-myth-islam-uppsala-sweden-a8003881.html), on two counts. A) The supposed “Arabic inscription” woven into the ancient textiles does not spell “Allah,” but actually spells nothing at all. B) Even if it were a genuine Arabic script, that type of script did not exist until some 500 years after those particular Vikings were supposedly buried with it. [ thanks to ECAW’sblog for the news tip.]
Aw, what does she know! We want Muslim Vikings! That way we’re not giving our country away; we’re giving it back.
Aren’t you glad there ain’t no politics in Science?
Source: Immortality for Chowderheads
Hope in Jesus Christ the Lord because “all other ground is sinking sand”–they’ve got that right!
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less, sung by the kids from Fountainview Academy on a visit to, well, I think that’s Rome, with the Forum in the background. Now watch it turn out to be Wichita, and make me look bad.
This little video of an owl and a kitten supposedly making friends became “an Internet sensation,” so they say. But is that really what they’re doing? To me it looks like the cat is really bugging the owl. Still, they had to get that nursery rhyme from somewhere…