David Limbaugh quotes an interview with Nancy in which she explains “the modernist definition of knowledge, which says that things like religion, morality, and ethics are not a matter of genuine truth (as they were traditionally thought to be), but instead are merely personal ‘values.’ This is often called the fact/value split……. The assumption is that reliable knowledge comes only from the realm of scientific “facts,” which are objective, rational, and value-free. Then there’s realm of “values,” which may be... Read more

Its important to pause for a moment before you hit the delete key. As you can guess when I first saw this in my email box I was conviced it was yet another hoax alert. It isn’t. We CAN do something about it. BBC2 plans to broadcast Jerry Springer’s “The Opera”, immediately after Christmas. This musical, notorious for containing over 8000 expletives, depicts the characters of Jesus, Mary and God as self-centred sexual deviants who give and receive extreme verbal... Read more

Wittenberg Gate: “As the death toll climbs from the Asian tsunami disaster, it is approaching the average daily world-wide death toll. Using the figures published by the CIA, found here, for world population and the annual death rate, I calculated that approximately 56.5 million people die every year, 4.7 million every month, and almost 155 thousand every day. The figures are staggering. Every minute 108 people meet the Maker in whose image they were made. Day in and day out... Read more

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Thanks to Earnestly Contending for this: “It’s better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude” – (Quote of the Day): “‘It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. Let me tell you something, friend, it is not love and it is not friendship if we fail to declare the... Read more

i used to believe has a massive selection of quotes like these which make for a humour injection:- “My daughter once asked if God was short for Godfrey” Read more

As terrible as the Tsunami was, it is far from being the only cause of suffering in today’s world. Reading this post Zimbabwe – A Year in Review made me wish there was something we could do to help Zimbabwe. The thing that got me most was the statement that life expectency had dropped to just 1.5 years older than me! Of course as there are no journalists allowed into Zimbabwe except for cricket matches we cant know if that... Read more