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The Coming Cataclysm

June 13th, 2010 · 8 Comments

It is late in the day, and few are prepared for the darkness coming. The signs, it seems, are everywhere: U.S. Treasury 2009 Financial Report Shows Dire Course The Treasury Department recently issued the 2009 financial report of the United States government. … the annual report is untainted by creative accounting but also because its [...]

Tags: Politics & Culture · Social Issues

Life in the Necropolis

October 8th, 2009 · 10 Comments

The recent arrest of Roman Polanski for statutory rape with a 13-year-old girl has peeled back the veil covering our cultural decay. Numerous artists, directors, and other Hollywood celebrities and powerbrokers have come out and condemned the arrest, while rationalizing his behavior and condemning what they see as unjust punishment. The public response to this [...]

Tags: Politics & Culture · Postmodernism · Social Issues

A Life Not Long

March 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Last week, President Obama removed virtually all restrictions on fetal stem cell research, claiming a triumph of science over “ideology.” The hope, of course, is that science may find new ways to prolong and improve our lives, now that the shackles of moral restraint, humility, and ethics have been removed. It seemed fitting, therefore, to [...]

Tags: Death & Dying · Ethics & Morality · Faith & Religion · Health Care Policy · Medicine · Politics & Culture · Social Issues

Mea Culpa

September 27th, 2007 · 9 Comments

I’ve decided to pull a post from earlier today. It was an attempt to use humor to point out the insanity of secular multiculturalism, using this story as a jump-off point. The humor used was too edgy, and too offensive. I was called on this by a brother in Christ, and initially reacted defensively, but [...]

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Katrina Euthanasia Update

June 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Lost in the dustbin of inconvenient memories, left behind in the light-speed pace of internet information mania is the story of the deaths of patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A physician and two nurses were arrested after the Louisiana District Attorney charged them with murder, accusing them [...]

Tags: Death & Dying · Ethics & Morality · Euthanasia · Medicine · Social Issues

Moving the Ancient Boundaries – IV

April 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim    ♦ Part 3 — Undermining Civil Authority   Do not move the ancient boundary stone   set up by your forefathers.         – Proverbs 22:28 [...]

Tags: Ethics & Morality · Faith & Religion · Politics & Culture · Series: Moving the Ancient Boundaries · Social Issues

Moving the Ancient Boundaries – III

March 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:    ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries    ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim   Do not move the ancient boundary stone   set up by your forefathers.         – Proverbs 22:28 –   In prior posts, we began [...]

Tags: Ethics & Morality · Politics & Culture · Postmodernism · Series: Moving the Ancient Boundaries · Social Issues

Half-Pint Heroes

January 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This week’s news brought the remarkable story of Wesley Autrey, a 50 year-old Vietnam veteran who jumped in front of a subway train to save a man who had fallen onto the tracks while having a seizure. 18-year-old Cameron Hollowpeter suffered a seizure while Autrey, accompanied by his two daughters, was waiting on the platform [...]

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