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C. S. Hayden writes about inflation in Zimbabwe
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Frank of talk2action.org laments that a certain author “seems to have fallen into the familiar claim that anything but the self-proclaimed orthodox are insufficiently faithful.”
Well, isn’t that the point of orthodoxy?  As the Apostle Paul writes in 1Cor. 1:10:  Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.  And elsewhere in Gal. 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. In other words, there is orthodoxy, and there is heterodoxy. These should not be self proclaimed, of course, but should be those which follow the Word of God (by the gracious regenerating and instructing work of the Holy Spirit, and not perfectly this side of the grave).
Apparently this does not sit well with the progressive “faithful”.  According to God, though, this kind of thinking is accursed. Why even bother retaining the ‘faithful’ portion of the name?

Libertarianism is often associated with freedom, conservativism, etc. But is liberty an appropriate end in itself?
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Edit: Thanks to the commenter Stephen below for pointing out an error which I have corrected. More discussion below.Over at Talk2Action there have been a series of articles on Zionism among Christians in the US, touching on what they refer to as anti-Semitism because, in the premillenial dispensational worldview, 2/3rds of the Jews will be killed prior to the rapture. in the Tribulation. I remember hearing this comment some years ago from one Yacob Prasch, himself a dispensational Christian teacher, who wondered “how can you say you are a friend to Israel when you are pushing them towards destruction?”
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The United Pentecostal Church has out a set of “60 questions on the Godhead”, with answers, which attempt to refute orthodox Trinitarian Christianity. I didn’t realize how prevalent anti-trinitarianism really was in the church today, but apparently it is very popular. Just as one data point, a preacher named T. D. Jakes is very much modalist (that God is not three persons but three aspects in one person), and I see his books all over the Christian book sections at bookstores. Interestingly, someone removed all reference to his modalism from his wikipedia article as unsourced.. I’ll have to see if I can get some sources to this.Anyways, about the 60 questions, a friend of mine has written some responses to these questions, which perhaps I will post here.God in three Persons, blessed Trinity

In Home Schooling Movement, a PBS program of January 10th, 2007, Robert Reich (billed as a “home schooling expert”) says:

“If parents can control every aspect of the kids’ education, shield them from exposure to things that the parents deem sinful or objectionable, screen in only things which accord with their convictions, and not allow them exposure to the world of democracy, well the children grow up then basically in the own image of their parents, servile to their own parents’ beliefs.”

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