by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jan. 10, 2021) —[Editor’s Note: Part 1 is here.] We need to stop and look at the positive values we need for a healthy democracy in these United States. In rough order of importance we so far have considered the human person and the family. Here are some more. Children. Another family […]
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Our Values Need Clarifying, Part I
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Jan. 8, 2021) — “One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [mankind] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness [well-being, success].” I […]
Are We Haters?
My Life, My Death?
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 30, 2020) — That is the slogan of well-funded lobbyists who descend on my state legislature every year to advocate physician-assisted suicide. Excuse me – they call it “compassion in dying” or, in Canada, “medical assistance in dying.” I call it a confession of world-view bankruptcy. Others call it euthanasia, mercy […]
Truth Decay
Declaring Independence from God
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 24, 2020) — In 1776 we declared independence from England, but should we declare independence from God? There is a problem with American separation from God – not just separation of church and state (which is not in the constitution, by the way) but personal, social, cultural and national independence from […]
What has Santa to do with Christmas?
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 18, 2020) — Some years ago I did a little not-too-professional research on why we give at Christmastime. I say not-too-professional not only because the internet sites used are not-too-scholarly but because nobody knows for sure. The general practice of exchanging presents or giving to the poor has long been a […]
God and Americans 1620 – 2020
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 15, 2020) — For the first three hundred years, immigrants to America and their descendants regarded this vast new continent as a gift from God – the bountiful land, the opportunity open to enterprise, the freedom from oppression – especially religious liberty. They expressed their reverent gratitude in their laws and […]
Is There A Reason?
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 11, 2020) — Is “Jesus the reason for the season?” Honestly, yes and no. Yes – in the very name. It will take a lot of lawsuits and censorship to expunge “Christmas” from the “Holidays.” Militant secularists (the Jesuits of the new state religion) have rightly noted that it is a […]
Ban the Ten Commandments!
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 3, 2020) — Today’s snicker: The real reason you can’t have the Ten Commandments in the courthouse is that you cannot post “Thou shalt not Steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of politicians without creating a hostile working environment (MPR, Pretty Good […]
Advent, Xmas & Newtown
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Dec. 1, 2020) — Whatever it is, Sweet Saturnalia, Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, the stores have been at it since September. Someone has said Christians shouldn’t get all bent out of shape at this time of year. Neither should secularists. The department stores created all the hoopla about Christmas in the […]
Are You Thankful Yet?
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 24, 2020) — This is going to be a different Thanksgiving. We may be reeling from this year’s disasters and we may not dare to have friends and relatives from out of town for the traditional feast and reunion. Can we still be thankful? You cannot invite 90 Indian neighbors. Snicker […]
Counter-Cultural Marriage
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 20, 2020) — Marriage is counter-cultural – Christian marriage, in particular. Always has been, even among Christians, more often than not. Lots of folks out there think they are married, but in a Christian sense, are not! Our marriages are sub-Christian. Court decisions in the last decade have not changed much. […]
Bring Down the Fever
The Cosmology of Genesis
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 14, 2020) — Cosmology is the philosophy of origins. The question of origins – where did we come from – is foundational to any mature worldview. Contemporary scientific theory tells us that time and space came from the Big Bang. But the origin, the what and the why of the ‘Bang’ […]
Post-Christian or Pre-Christian?
by ProfDave, ©2020 (Nov. 1, 2020) — There is a lively debate going on among Jesus-followers about their place in a “Post-Christian” world. Are they an embattled remnant hunkered down in the Alamo waiting for Jesus to come on his white horse and rescue them? Or are they the beachhead of a great invasion? Or […]