“…isms” blog

Form over something

srl — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:50:10 +0000

Updated the template, hopefully will update the content at some point.

The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel

srl — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:39:25 +0000

C. S. Hayden writes about inflation in Zimbabwe (more…)

The ‘war on moderation and mainstream religion’

srl — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:56:58 +0000

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?

Christian Bureaucrats, Oh My

srl — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:39:18 +0000

The latest concern over on talk2action is the apparent “infiltration of federal government by Christian fundamentalist ”sleeper cells,“” which has come to light in the aftermath of the resignation of one M. Goodling.
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WTW: Blogs Against Theocracy

srl — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:56:00 +0000

Over at Talk2Action there’s a note about the upcoming campaign for Blogs Against Theocracy, which is going to be this Resurrection Sunday weekend.

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Libertarianism

srl — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:10:51 +0000

Libertarianism is often associated with freedom, conservativism, etc. But is liberty an appropriate end in itself? (more…)

Federal funding for CPC’s

srl — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:34:14 +0000

Over at Talk2Action they are also concerned about federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers. According to the 2006 White House “Faith Based Community Initiatives” catalog, there’s a total of US$163 million in funding for “abstinence” programs, some of which goes to CPCs. (Yes, this is the same president who increased Title X funding for Planned Parenthood to US$288.3 million in 2005. but that’s another story.) In any event, it is a blatant case of Statism, albeit supposedly in support of the “Christian Conservative Right”. Among the apparent concerns of those afraid this so-called “Dominionist” movement is that there are people out there who are going to topple the government and replace it with an intolerant and oppressive “theocracy” which will ram religion down everyone’s throat. Well-intentioned but wrongheaded public funding of causes like crisis pregnancy centers doesn’t help anything. You can’t fight abortion with statism. As Crockett’s friend put it, it’s just plain not yours to give.

Zionism and Comforting Israel

srl — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:54:29 +0000

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?” (more…)

Unitarianism - 60 Questions

srl — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:54:16 +0000

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

Statism and “socialization”

srl — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:24:57 +0000

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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