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tango has a good reply. It is a tough sell. In fact, it's so tough it's impossible. The fact is, we're talking about spiritual matters, and without the Holy Spirit working, none of us see any of this! (So boasting is excluded. Any truth we have, we have been given - it has been revealed to us by...

Right, totally agree. The hypocrisy and inconsistency are breathtaking; however, the far left doesn't care. See my post on the MeToo thread.

This goes very deep - all the way to epistemology. By far the most helpful article I've ever read on this is actually by the atheist Peter Boghossian: Welcome to Culture War 2.0. A lot of comments on this thread are pointing out the inconsistency between Kavanaugh's treatment and Biden's...

See this excellent article for a summary, with links, as to why the lockdowns are showing up as ineffective. HT: Yih-Chau Chang on LinkedIn. Also, I have written a blog post containing the very beginnings of a causal analysis of lockdowns on COVID deaths here. With regard to my blog post, I...

The "days" issue isn't really the issue. It's the "evolution" part that is the issue.

Right, it's technically a position paper, which is unfortunately somewhat weak in the PCA. It's supposed to be a guiding principle, but it has no teeth. The Westminster Confession does say this: This is not compatible with theistic evolution or regular evolution - see the position paper for...

Exactly. You can have some differences as an ordained elder in the PCA, but the presbytery or session (depending on which kind of elder you are) has to determine if any differences you hold are acceptable or not.

Because when you are ordained in the PCA, as Tim Keller is, you take vows to uphold the form of government and the Westminster Standards (Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms). He's essentially going against his vows by holding to a view of origins that is not...

Rather mixed feelings about him. He's certainly done a lot of good, including for me. On the other hand, his stance on women deacons and origins are not in line with his denomination's policies, which is definitely a problem.

I don't know. That's an interesting idea, though. Maybe I'll see if I can write something sometime. I'll post it here if I do!

The Valley of Vision is a collection of Puritan prayers that I have found very helpful over the years. The one I prayed this morning was, I thought, remarkable: The Precious Blood Blessed Lord Jesus, Before thy cross I kneel and see the heinousness of my sin, my iniquity that caused thee to...

I thought this article was amazingly good, particularly this quote:

I'm checking out Karl Marx and the Close of his System, by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk, one of the great Austrian economists. I love titles like that, particularly when they are applied to someone like Marx. It essentially says, in academic tough-speak, "Marx has nothing to offer, and he's wrong about...

I'm not sure I can agree with you, here. Investors should be free (as in, free market) to invest in whatever lawful enterprise they wish. I believe a genuinely free market will be robust enough to heal itself from any such momentary aberrations. It might be hard to compete, but that's...

No doubt they do, though, of course, either argument (socialists are often cheapskates, therefore socialism is wrong, or capitalists are often cheapskates, therefore capitalism is wrong) is committing the genetic fallacy and should be given no attention whatever. Christianity is no different...

I thought this article by atheist Peter Boghossian (HT: Nancy Pearcey) was absolutely fascinating. The critical theory folks don't just think the correspondence theory of truth is bogus (which it most certainly is not), but they think that your identity markers determine how much truth you...

:-)] https://babylonbee.com/news/caravan-of-liberal-americans-makes-way-toward-socialist-paradise-of-venezuela/

One interesting thing that has come about in the last few years is the distinct rise from poverty in many places in the world. The formerly mainstream media, as Nancy Pearcey has taught us to call it, ignores this inconvenient fact. It's worthwhile noting that pure communist countries such as...

For the record, misinterpretations of Christianity has killed its hundreds, maybe its thousands. (See below for why it must be misinterpretations!) Marxism and Communism has killed its hundreds of millions. If I can figure out a way to blame abortion on postmodernism and/or critical theory...

Changing the subject only slightly - to socialism: