Saw this on social media, posted by an atheist, presumably to take a stab at us Christians: If you’re good because you fear hell, you’re not good. To which I reply, “What is meant by ‘good’?” This is the fundamental problem with attacking morality and then claiming there is nothing fixed from which morality derives. […]
Musings
A Thought About Connections
In a brief exchange in some comments, I had this to say which I wanted to save, so here it is: The idea of the origin of a new species via random gene mutations and natural selection is hard pill to swallow. I don’t find evolutionary theory is anywhere near convincing: as a hypothetical speculation […]
Rex Omnium and the Epic Spiritual War
As part of my Lenten exercises this year, I am reading a book by Paul Thigpen entitled, “Manual for Spiritual Warfare.” Thus far it has been a very sound and useful read, but a theme (that should be obvious to any Christian) is emerging that has occurred to me before but I’ve never deeply considered. […]
Source of Justice
I noted again today, in an article discussing the erroneous statement of a CNN anchor about the source of our rights, these words from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these […]
Kind of a Jerk Answer
So, I was looking up some information on the Internet and ran across a forum thread. A guy asked a question, saying he was a beginner with XSLT. Here’s part of the answer he got from someone: Sorry, but if you don’t know how to use XPath expressions within an XSLT stylesheet, then you really […]
No, sir … don’t like it.
No More Monkeys!
I was just thinking … a bunch of monkeys, even given an eternity, will never type out the complete works of Shakespeare. They couldn’t, because the typewriter would get broken before they really even got started on the first sonnet. Then you could give them all eternity and they’d never type out any works of […]