Isn’t it time we did something about a major killer of Americans? If you filled up a football stadium with one hundred thousand people, about ten can expect to die from this all American killer. This does not count the corollary deaths due to the use of this product. Government subsidizes our use of the product with our tax money and the lobby for the industry is a powerful voice in Washington. Even appearing to be indifferent to the fate... Read more
Anybody who has single friends, older friends, or friends who have taken a vow of chastity knows this truth: sex is not necessary for human happiness. This is so obvious to anyone who looks around at his friends and family that a man might think it doesn’t need to be said. He would be wrong. American culture has so associated romance with sex, fun with sex, and the good life with sex that we have become confused. We believe our... Read more
“Isn’t God narcissistic? If I don’t praise Him, I go to Hell.” This is a profanity free summary of a discussion I had with an atheist. I get what he was saying and my Sunday School kid self had the same worry. That is when the holidays came to my rescue. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days because all of Christmas is before me, none spent, and there is no pressure on the day. We feast, rejoice, and prepare... Read more
If a gunman invades my workplace and asks the Christians to stand, then I hope I would stand. I am not so arrogant to know what I would do, but God helping me, I would have to stand. I don’t wish to die yet, but there are some things worse than death. Better dead than betraying the High King of Heaven. Students often do not understand why we cannot deny Christ. After all, we do not mean what we say... Read more
Joe Biden picked the week Christians were killed in America for being Christian to declare every traditional Christian is a “homophobe.” The Vice-President is not known for his timing, but he might want to pause and wonder if the rhetoric he is using is contributing to a culture of hate and fear. Psychologically sound people can handle political rhetoric like this, but by now we know that both on the right and left, unstable people saturate in our hateful culture... Read more
Increase law and you decrease liberty. We sometimes choose liberty with a bit of chaos over law with more order. Americans have decided to decriminalize most adult sexual behavior and permit (relatively) easy access to divorce. This increase in liberty has led to problems, but they are problems that the majority of Americans tolerate. For example, pornography is easily available to everyone, including children, and we have little idea what this will do to the society. Americans do not seem... Read more
Common decency is not a great virtue, but is good to have around in community. When someone died, I was taught to speak as kindly as possible. We are not talking about covering up for evil, but showing some charity toward another human being who faces judgement beyond human control. My grandparents called this common decency. Let the family mourn and take care of necessary business as quietly as possible. In the same way, a national tragedy is the wrong... Read more
History always wins and those who stand against the dialectical truth that comes from the interplay of ideas will be left on the dustbin of the past. I see this now and I am sorry to have ever opposed the arc of history. A man might as well stand against the tide with a sand castle as oppose history. We cannot just react. The intellectual class knows we have failed and stands critical of what has been. Those who have... Read more
In dealing with the “blood moon” debacle, I noticed how often one generation in a church passes on the power to the next generation of family. A visit to many a mega-church website reveals a disturbing phenomena: God seems to call a startling number of children of clergy to take over the “family church” or become prominent in that ministry. One of the best arguments for unmarried clergy, or at least unmarried bishops (or higher church leaders), is that celibate... Read more
Long ago a Reynolds thought that Jesus would probably come in 1843*. He was wrong, but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that this Biblical reasoning was sounder than the “blood moon” thinking we just experienced. Since I doubt anybody aspires to be the least wrong in the class of all the Wrong Headed People Who Have Ever Lived, what did the Reynolds’ clan learn from the Great Disappointment? Own being wrong. To his great credit William Miller,... Read more
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