HT to the San Francisco Chronicle for the “Goracle” moniker. Â Â Â ____
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“Amazing Grace” Suppresses Wilberforce’s Christianity?
At OpinionJournal.com, Charlotte Allen suggests that the new movie about William Wilberforce suppresses his Christianity: Alas, a lot of people watching “Amazing Grace,” Michael Apted’s just-released film, may get the impression–perhaps deliberately fostered by Mr. Apted–that Wilberforce was a mostly secular humanitarian whose main passion was not Christian faith but politics and social justice. Along the way, they may also get the impression that the hymn “Amazing Grace” is no more than an uplifting piece of music that sounds especially rousing on the bagpipes. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I certainly can’t have an opinion on this question. But I sure hope that Allen is wrong.
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Down with the Retrograde Regime of Roe v. Wade
The central holding of the Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade decision was that a woman has the right to choose an abortion for any reason, up until the “point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable,’ that is, potentially able to live outside the mother’s womb.” Roe v. Wade said furthermore that “Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.”
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More on Sheri Klouda
The controversy over Sheri Klouda spilled over onto television sets across the metroplex last night as the ABC affiliate in Dallas did a feature on Klouda’s departure from Southwestern Seminary. You can watch the video by clicking here.
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Believing Scripture but Playing by Science’s Rules
Apparently, establishment evolutionists think that their worldview and epistemology are the default settings for human consciousness. At least that’s the impression I get when reading about how some science professors are reacting to Ph.D. candidates who believe in young earth creationism. The New York Times reports that some science Professors would like to exclude young earth creationists from studying at their schools, even if the students are competent and qualified.
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Dixie Chicks Win Big
The Dixie Chicks won big at the Grammy’s tonight. They won five awards, including “Song of the Year” and “Album of the Year.” Though I don’t agree with their politics (understatement alert!), I think their album “Taking the Long Way” is great. My favorite performance of the night, however, was the opening act by The Police. The reunion was long overdue, but they didn’t miss a lick.
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Abortion and Capital Murder
Under the current regime of Roe v. Wade, it is legal for a mother to have her unborn child killed at any stage of pregnancy. Yet this week a San Antonio father was convicted of one count of capital murder for killing his unborn child (read the story). This tragic story here in Texas highlights the inconsistency and injustice of abortion-law in the U.S. In Texas it is a capital offense to kill an “unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.” Currently, there are at least 36 states that have such homicide laws defining a fetus as a person. Yet abortion remains legal in the U.S.…
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New Orleans Descends into Darkness
I’ve done a series of posts on New Orleans and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Lately, I’ve been observing how the national media coverage has been turning attention away from the dysfunctionality of the federal response to the dysfunctionality of New Orleans itself.
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Porn Ministry Back in the News
A year or so ago I did a series of posts on the so-called “XXX Church,” an online community aimed at evangelizing porn stars and porn addicts. The XXX Church is back in the news this week as their ministry has set up a booth at the world’s largest porn convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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I hate Macs
A clever article in a British paper scores one for PC users everywhere. In “I hate Macs,” the author lampoons Mac computers and their pretentious new ad campaign: PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. . . PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, “I hate Macs”, and then I think, “Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?” Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with…