Bearing God's Image Thoroughly
Carl Benjamin’s article is a good start So, let’s start with a disclosure: I’m only part of the way through Islander #5. It’s not a quick read, requiring both analysis as you go and some time to digest. Thus far, the
If nothing else, this book helps explain why reactions (and thus emotions) seem so much the substance of American national discourse at the moment, how people are so extraordinarily incapable (to appearance) of inhabiting and considering others’ viewpoints. They have,
Optics matter, in reality. When we deal with politics, we have an understandable tendency to focus on whether or not we believe the current goings-on are good in themselves. We ask, ‘Was that police shooting justified?’ or ‘Is this proffered
Part I covered the center point of Iserbyt’s book (Skinnerian, Behaviorist education- education which is actually intended to program people, producing reactions rather than inculcating decision-making). Part II covered several of the subsidiary points of the work,1 including US entanglement
Don’t help your enemy kill you (and your children) Accelerationism is a really, really bad idea. The appeal is clear, of course. We see the world building up its Jenga block tower of bad ideas and bad decisions and outright
Yes, absolutely. It is indisputable that Reformed Christianity does not hold the levers of power in any Western country. Christians of some stripe pop up in many governments; Catholics sit on the US Supreme Court, though unfortunately not, so far
Necessity is the word of tyrants. Expediency is foundational to our current administrative state, wherein one body writes the laws, executes the laws, alters the laws case-by-case, and judges the laws, with minimal interference by representative government or the judiciary.
Originally Published Here on Truthwire The history of HB1823 is just a little bit more complicated than first glance indicates- because HB1823 is very clearly derived from the recently withdrawn (before any consideration) HB1700. They share sponsors; they share language;
Martin, Warhammer, Tolkien: The Relationship of Morality With Power Morality’s relationship to power is a classic problem (one I brush up against in my novel). Is righteousness doomed? Does might make right? Is morality a silly pretense in a world of
The description given by an Anglo-Saxon poem holds true today. My second favorite poem in all the world is The Wanderer, an Old English work narrating the contemplations of a man deprived of his place in the world, sent forth an