Archives for May 2010
Understanding the range of political expression in the USA
Look at the two political diagrams that I have attached to this post. Each one of them tells a story that is much more complex than the one that you commonly get to hear in this country. Because the story is not heard, too many Christians end up being deluded by the constant pounding of […]
Christian libertarians and morality
Libertarianism is an appealing approach nowadays. It can best be classified as the “pox on both your houses,” approach to politics. For many is is an appealing minimalist approach because of the constant unending stream of news that we get about earmarks that keep getting shoved into bills and special deals that keep getting cut. […]
The dangers of a convert’s blog
Well, yet again with another Pithless Thoughts comic. This one made me chuckle because of the Episcopal Assembly currently going on. I am a convert; I admit it. And, I understand the convert tendency to be looking not simply for the Church of the Apostles but also for total doctrinal agreement by all involved and […]
Rand Paul, the Tea Party and Libertarianism
There has been a lot of furor over the remarks by Rand Paul recently. Needless to say, defenders of Rand Paul immediately charged that it was “gotcha” journalism. This is the favorite political catch phrase when you have uttered something that turned out to be politically unwise. Unfortunately for Mr. Paul, he has a record […]
Posting suspended for a couple of days
My stepfather passed away around midnight yesterday. My father died when I was seven, and my mother remarried a few years later, so he has been the “dad” in my life since then. I spent all of yesterday involved in the inevitable set of rounds one must make, church, funeral home, cemetery, etc. Now I […]
Secular reaction to extreme, uhm, dispensationalism?
On May 18, Father Orthoduck published a publisher’s blurb on an anti-rapture secular comic. He commented that the secular comic is probably, in-part, a reaction to a certain strain of Christianity. Yesterday, a poster made the following comment: But the truth is that a virulent strain of Dispensationalism is so real and pervasive in American […]
Do secularists have a point about dispensationalists?
Some very interesting points were made by the people who commented on yesterday’s post. Let Father Orthoduck do some quotations. I don’t recognize the God they are talking about when they start the–if you want to go to heaven, you have to be just like me or else you will be caught in the tribulation […]
Dispensational theology and secular counter-reaction
Many Christians do not know the technical name for the theology that is behind the Left Behind series of books. It is called dispensational theology or dispensationalism. While there are a couple of types of dispensationalism, here is a reasonable definition: Dispensationalism is a Protestant evangelical tradition based on a biblical hermeneutic that sees a […]
Anti-rapture comic
Below is a copy of an announcement sent to Father Orthoduck by Fr. Huw. Neither Father Orthoduck nor Fr. Huw agree with the viewpoint in the announcement, however, Father Orthoduck will be discussing this in the next day or so. It is important to note that the comic below is a secular reaction against a […]
