In 1803 the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) unilaterally claimed supremacy over the other two branches of the US Government; in Marbury v. Madison (1803) the Court claimed to have the ability to determine what is constitutional and what is not. Once the court made that decision, they elevated judges to the supreme arbiter of law in the United States. That is not a role the US Constitution of 1789 gave to the Judiciary Branch. Since then no…
Confusion emerges in Christian communities when one attempts to teach from the writings of Moses and the Prophets, which were written in Hebrew. We, as Christians, are taught the Gospels (written in Greek). Some centuries ago nice men thought they’d help us by calling the Hebrew writings “Old” and the Greek writings “New.” As as we read how the Old Testament was replace by the New Testament (Covenant), we are at a loss with what to do with that set…
How to go from here to there? If I am proposing a “Christian Nation,” how do we go from our currently secular state, completely hostile to the existence of Christianity anywhere except between the ears (for now at least) to a country that is openly and unapologetically Christian and in which our Laws and morals are reflected by the Ten Commandments? Indeed, how does any country do this?
Regardless of what one thinks of Whittaker Chambers, this letter succinctly reflects the condition of the West in the 1950s, which held to forms produced by a Christian, while denying its source. Combine Chamber’s thoughts with Alexis de Tocqueville (“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”) and you have a pretty good idea why this country cannot arrest it’s slide into the morass.] Today the dominant narrative is…
Epistemology is the study of knowledge — how do we know what we think we know? It’s a pretty philosophical question. In fact, it is the ultimate philosophical question. Does truth exist? If so, can we know it? If so, how?
God does not believe in equality; God is no one’s equal. God created Man first, and Woman from Man. Man was to obey God, and the woman to listen to and obey the man, and in turn the children are to obey the parents. God gave a female as companionship to the male — that was the perfect fit. Homosexuality is the undermining of God’s perfect order for companionship. God’s first command was to reproduce; homosexuality prevents reproduction.
Is so-called “religious” neutrality possible? No. There is no such thing as neutrality. There is no philosophical space in which nothing exists — and that is the purported (but deceptive) goal of the so-called secularists. A lack of what some call “religion” is merely the substitution of another philosophy and morality; all of which are matters of conscience, thought, assumptions, and philosophy. “Religion” is but a sub-set of those — and those against the Christian faith call Christianity “religious” in…
I read the book of Esther this morning. It has two themes. First, women should submit to and obey their husbands. If they don’t the consequences are bad. If they do, they wield enormous influence — vastly more than “independent” women who claim equal authority to their man. But it is the second story that I wish to focus on — racial identity. The story of Esther does not mention God once, even though Esther part of the Bible. This…
There are those who want to build a society friendly to Christianity but not offensive to non-Christians. I used to be one of them; I thought there was a way to do this. The goal was to build a society that is “conservative,” has “family values,” honors one’s history and is “constitutional” but not explicitly Christian. It was considered that coalition building was practical; that survival — getting that safe space — trumped other considerations. I thought, “that kind of…
A Christian Nation/State God has a plan for nations, states, governments, and countries. It’s called the Ten Commandments. It’s really simple. The Ten Commandments are not personal moral goal for individuals — they are the legal and moral code for entire nations. The Ten Commandments are the foundation for law, philosophy, morality and government for nation/states. If that nation endorses that Law, propagates that Law, takes seriously that law, and comports itself in accordance with that Law, that nation/state shall…