A Living Text

You can read the horrifying truth here. To sum it up:

Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

Unlike Mark, I am going to vote for the man because he is the only hope that the innocent unborn have in this race (and yes, it is a slim one). But yet again, it points out that ‘conservatives’ aren’t very conservative when it comes to preserving the family, western culture, tradition, or much else. Not that Democrats are.If this story were about Bill Clinton or Barrack Obama, we’d be calling for their heads and shaking our heads in disgust.

The GOP needs to quit pointing fingers at the media, the liberals and the courts and start pointing the finger at ourselves. We are in deep need of repentance and a long struggle to live holy lives and restore families, one at a time. That isn’t glamorous or earth-shattering, but without it, we end up with pathetic leadership from men like Gingrich, McCain and company who leave shattered marriages in their wake left and right.

Rachel is getting better and better at Garage Band. Her music sounds just great! Check this one out:

You Watch Me

A couple months ago, Barrack Obama issued some theological pronouncements. Speaking on March third he said:

I will tell you that I don’t believe in gay marriage, but I do think that people who are gay and lesbian should be treated with dignity and respect and that the state should not discriminate against them. So, I believe in civil unions that allow a same-sex couple to visit each other in a hospital or transfer property to each other. I don’t think it should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state. If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans. That’s my view.

Here Senator Obama is practicing what theologians call ‘canon within a canon.’ That is, he is saying that we should view some parts of the Bible as more important than other parts, and read the other parts in light of those more privileged parts. But let us not concede to the Senator the high ground of the Sermon on the Mount. Loving your neighbor as yourself, which is presumably what he was referring to, does not equal accepting their sin. In fact it might mean just the opposite, as in warning one’s neighbor of his sin so that he does not fall into eternal destruction.
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Last weekend we watched The Island. I’d like to say it was unbelievable, but unfortunately, it was quite believable. It’s about human beings being raised to be slaughtered for their organs, paid for by the mega-rich of the world. The story is in a similar vein to another recent movie that I liked, Children of Men. Both movies outline grim futures of a different nature, where life is completely devalued. 

I’d like to think that these movies reflect some sort of popular consensus on abortion and eugenics, but I don’t know that they are more than entertainment for a depraved world. After all, Scarlett Johansson, the star of The Island said:

“We’re supposed to be liberated in America but if our President had his way, we wouldn’t be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn’t be able to have abortions.”

What a horrible world, where babies couldn’t be slaughtered when we don’t want them! And yet she can act in this movie that decries cloning for organs (or at least I hope it does). So it is odd to me that Hollywood is putting out these culture of life films, all the while embracing the culture of death. I guess it’s just marketing to a certain segment. We are so far gone in the world, that we don’t think twice about the horrors occurring around us on a daily basis.

If you think we aren’t that far gone, consider that 40% of women of child-bearing age in America have had an abortion. Professor Peter Singer thinks that it should be just fine to kill young children for their organs. We are now going to be creating human-animal embryos for research. Thousands of British women have had four or more abortions. Down syndrome children are disappearing because they are being aborted out of existence, “About 90 percent of pregnant women who are given a Down syndrome diagnosis have chosen to have an abortion.” We have a candidate in Barrack Obama who is fine with about any kind of abortion, and is supported by a large number of younger Christians. 

Tell me how we are different from Nazi Germany and its’ eugenics laws? Because to us it is a “choice?” This is evil, murderous and bloody evil that is out of sight, out of mind. We don’t hear the screams of babies being chopped up in the womb or salinated out of existence - so who cares? May God have mercy on this depraved culture of death and change the hearts of those who think life is a commodity.

“In 2003, the latest year for which full figures are available, 42 million abortions were carried out around the world, compared with 46 million in 1995, according to the paper published by The Lancet next Saturday.”

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