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You had better practice what you trumpet!

From yesterday’s post, Fr. Huw made the following comment: But this only attacks half the problem… if there is a place where our (and I speak in the first person here, on purpose) hypocrisy haunts us most, it’s in our trumpeting of “one right set of doctrines” when paralleled with our self-righteousness. Essentially we say “LOOK! I Hold the Right Doctrines unlike you heretics!” and... [Read more]

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The wrong sort of Mere Christianity

Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove her statement. You see, all of us are sinners. As a result, all of us behave in ways that are inconsistent... [Read more]

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Ahh, is this really honest journalism?

Yesterday, the Breitbart news site ran a story on a proposed resolution that a Congressman was thinking of submitting for approval by the House. They reproduced the resolution and then proceeded to lambaste the resolution. Now, at this point it does not matter what the resolution was, nor does it matter to which party the Congressman belongs. That is why I have deliberately not included a link to the... [Read more]

On sexually transmitted diseases

From the Centers for Disease Control on a report released yesterday: Syphilis, once on the verge of elimination, began re-emerging as a threat in 2001. In 2008, 13,500 cases of primary and secondary syphilis cases were reported, an almost 18 percent increase from 2007. The majority of these syphilis cases (63 percent) continues to be among men who have sex with men (MSM). Increased syphilis transmission... [Read more]

Is Evangelicalism dying?

I have permission to reproduce below part of an editorial from an online Christian magazine published by post-evangelical writers. The editorial is quite strong and, typical of post-evangelical writers, flirts with phrases that will startle you. Unfortunately, it uses one too many phrases that also almost require philosophy training in order to understand. Nevertheless, I recommend reading the article... [Read more]

Truly offensive Al Gore TV

You may not know or care that Al Gore is involved with Current TV. What is Current TV? Current TV is an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. The cable television network went on the air at midnight EDT (4:00 UTC) on the morning of August 1, 2005. A second network, operated in the United Kingdom and Ireland started its operation March 12, 2007,... [Read more]

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Carrie Prejean and Religious Right culture wars

Yes, Father Orthoduck is deliberately running a racy picture of Carrie Prejean because he needs to make a point. And it is a point that will keep biting conservative Christians, whether politically conservative, moderate, or liberal, until the Religious Right gets its act together. Yes, Father Orthoduck claims that it is possible to be a conservative Christian but to have differing opinions on social... [Read more]

Watterson on possible gods

Yesterday, I wrote on the subject of theodicy. For those who do not remember, it is the defense of God, particularly with respect to the suffering in the world. That is, it appears that, given the suffering in the world, God must either not be a good god or must not really be all-powerful. In the comic above, Watterson does not tackle the claim that God must not be omnipotent (all-powerful) given... [Read more]

Watterson on the existence of God

Of course, Watterson is tackling the problem of suffering in today’s comic strip. In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the question of whether evil exists and, if so, why. The question particularly arises in religions that propose the existence of a deity who is omnibenevolent while simultaneously also being omnipotent, and omniscient; attempts to resolve the question... [Read more]

On visiting wounded soldiers

While Father Orthoduck does not agree with every line and approach in this set of comic strips, he heartily agrees with the sentiment. If you are in a church with a reliable senior high school group, what about visiting a nearby VA hospital? Some of your juniors and seniors could probably volunteer to be candy stripe volunteers. Can your choir visit and do a few numbers, including some secular numbers?... [Read more]

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