Minor Local Seattle Celebrity Strives to Make Calvinism Even Uglier Than it Already Is My take on Calvinism is here. Basically, what Driscoll adds to it is a) a ballsy preaching style that appeals to people who are tired of wussiness masquerading as charity and b) a huge amount of Mark Driscoll. Much of his “ministry” seems to rely on the notion that brutal egoism and draconian rule is the same thing as “telling it like it is”. His sect... Read more

Minor Local Seattle Celebrity Strives to Make Calvinism Even Uglier Than it Already Is My take on Calvinism is here. Basically, what Driscoll adds to it is a) a ballsy preaching style that appeals to people who are tired of wussiness masquerading as charity and b) a huge amount of Mark Driscoll. Much of his “ministry” seems to rely on the notion that brutal egoism and draconian rule is the same thing as “telling it like it is”. His sect... Read more

“Never deny, rarely affirm, always distinguish.” How to think like a Dominican. Read more

If only Anglican Priests Could Marry! If only women could be teachers! Damn the Anglicans and the Teachers Union for their cruel rules about celibacy and male-only teaching certification! That’s what causes all this! Read more

To Countless American Conservative Christians, this will appear to be nearly blasphemous To the rest of the world, it will appear to be what it is: quintessentially American. Me: I figure he (and we) can use all the prayers he can get. If Paul says to pray for Nero, I’m not gonna begrudge Obama the same. Read more

Behold the Royalist Party! My deep love of doomed quixotic eccentrics just naturally thrums with pleasure over any site that begins: An Organzashon for the Establishment of a Political Monarchy, and its Suporting Institushons, in the United States This website declares monarchy a valid and apropriat political form. It is ment to present royalist theory with contribushons and discusion of royalist ideas. Politics Examind It woud be good to asert a political crisis in our time. For that woud portend... Read more

Even More Sickening than Ashley Madison itself… …is the bouncy “human interest” tone of the article promoting it. Tra la! What a lark adultery is! Utterly, utterly despicable. All I can think of the families of divorce I know and the agonies the children and betrayed spouses endure because of the work of evil people like Noel Biderman and Meghan Daum. Read more

“Mr. Hardy’s life is not worth prolonging according to a British government agency, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.” Yes, it’s actually called the NICE. This is why our current stampede for euthanasia is a sort of natural judgment on our notion that the Imperial Autonomous Self has the right to trump human life. A culture that believes this, by a strange alchemy, winds up putting itself in the hands of bean counters who decide you are too... Read more

PETA Outparodies Itself Save the Sea Kittens! It’s curious that Darwinism has, sort of like gnosticism, spawned two diametrically opposed moral systems. Gnosticism posited a complete split between the spiritual and physical worlds. Spirit was good, body bad. Two moral systems came from this. One said, “The body is worthless, so treat it like a piece of crap.” The other said, “The body is worthless, so you can do whatever you like with it, my lad! Wheeeeee!!!!!” Darwinism has tended... Read more

Blessed Peace Readers who have been commenting on the thread immediately below will notice that all the comments but mine are now gone. That’s because there were some evildoers among the commenters, using the rest of the commenters as human shields so they could lob lies and various vicious insults at people. Some people I have banned. All I have deleted except for my own comments. That’s because you can all trust that my account of things is accurate and... Read more