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• These Are the ‘Top Conservative Colleges’ in the U.S.

  March 17, 2012 at 10:24pm

  “ROBERT HAWK Posted on March 17, 2012 at 8:55am
  This poster is a prime example of the mixing of doctrines which I have written about historically for some time now. He is mixing Hebrew/Christian doctrine with Greek philos-sophos doctrine. His comments bear this out.”
  Sorry I am late getting back in. Maybe I am confusing doctrines because I just finished Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1 (in English, tr. 1975) by St. Thomas of Aquinas? He was constantly “mixing” the two. I didn’t know history had a doctrine other than seeking truth. Do you think the truth is not relevant to either of the doctrines?
  Since I haven’t read your argument, are you of the opinion the two should not be mixed?

• These Are the ‘Top Conservative Colleges’ in the U.S.

  March 16, 2012 at 11:57pm

  In reply to Curious - Really.

  dinosaur-deniers–there are moon landing deniers, there are all kinds of deniers. What kind of denier are you? Faith denier? Faith has existed all over the world for as long as we can ascertain.
  I am not a dinosaur denier. I believe they are mentioned in the Bible – the oldest history book in the world whether you believe the faith part or not. Many dinosaurs are extrapolated out of a few bones found. How do they know what the critter looked like? Why have they changed over the years? Is it true that man’s footprints have been found inside and among dinosaur footprints? Is carbon dating actually science or does the person dating the material ask the provider in what “era” the article was discovered? Why would they ask that? Can anyone prove the half life of carbon covering millions of years? So many questions. Anyone who is not a scientist may not be curious – but anyone who is a scientist is always seeking greater knowledge, constantly asking questions, never confident they have the complete answer.
  By the way “The word ”Bible” comes from the Egyptian word for parchment, byblos. The Greek word biblios means books or scrolls.” You can read the Bible as you would any other book – Socrates, Plato, ancient inscriptions, etc.

• These Are the ‘Top Conservative Colleges’ in the U.S.

  March 16, 2012 at 11:43pm

  In reply to Curious - Really.

  Butler Act/Scopes Trial — the state (Tennessee in this case) passes a law–can’t teach evolution in this state. Tennessee Supreme Court said, “So far as we know, there is no religious establishment or organized body that has in its creed or confession of faith any article denying or affirming such a theory [evolution]. (1927)” Not the first time, nor the last, a state will pass a law based on a perceived (children are coming home and telling their parents the Bible was all nonsense) problem. One man saw a problem and convinced enough legislators that the law passed. I haven’t seen anything that says the churches were involved in this – let me know if they were.
  germ theory — members of the “church” were both for and against the germ theory. Some saw it as a threat to their personal faith and/or livelihood and others (scientists) were in search of all truth in God’s world. Today’s “secular historian’s efforts to rewrite the life, beliefs, and discoveries of Louis Pasteur, in particular, his views on origins, the Christian faith, and his work on spontaneous generation as it relates to the germ theory” must be challenged. They are doing the same thing they criticize.

• These Are the ‘Top Conservative Colleges’ in the U.S.

  March 16, 2012 at 11:13pm

  andyetitmoves “the silencing of Galileo, the Inquisition, the Butler Act/Scopes Trial, the suppression of germ theory, even the dinosaur-deniers that walk among us in the US”
  “The silencing of Galileo now appears as a complex struggle for control within the Roman Catholic Church.” news flash: Galileo‘s science was a threat to someone else’s income and position and that person had the ear of a few church leaders. Sound familiar? Nothing new under the sun. Doesn’t mean his science was silenced – but the threat to others was. Happens all the time in secular universities today!
  Inquisition — “‘fight against heretics’ by several institutions within the justice system of the Roman Catholic Church” Doesn’t happen in secular societies, does it? Cleansing has happened all around us in our lifetimes. Thought cleansing in China, Russia, etc. Race cleansing in Africa and Germany. Education cleansing in Cambodia. Any traces of this in America? Not so a liberal would recognize it since they are in the midst of it now. Guess we all take turns “cleansing” our personal world of those who don’t think like we do. Some just have more power and accomplish it on a grander scale.

• ‘You’ll Be Tarred and Feathered!’: Union Protesters Growing Desperate in Indiana

  January 13, 2012 at 8:55pm

  In reply to Detroit paperboy.

  JROOK – “illegal for Indiana businesses and unions to negotiate contracts that require all workers to pay union fees ”

  They want to make it illegal for businesses and unions to make everyone pay dues to the unions – whether they want to or not. In other words, they want to make it legal for workers to decide for themselves if part of their paycheck will go to the union. IMHO it should be illegal for employers and unions to make a deal with each other involving other people’s money.

• Man Ticketed for Calling 911 Three Times…to Report a Break-In at His Mother’s Home

  January 8, 2012 at 1:15am

  In reply to inferno.

  I have the direct numbers for police and fire on my phone. I use them for auto accidents, etc., instead of calling 911. I have always gotten excellent responses. So . . . It may be a good idea to put the direct phone number of your local police, county (if applicable), and state officers in your phone. Call even in some emergency situations because you speak directly to the dispatchers. Medical emergencies, etc., call 911.

  Of course, since this gentleman had to drive an hour to get to his mom’s home, he probably didn’t have the local police numbers.

• These Are the 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the World

  December 13, 2011 at 1:42am

  I think the people in the Nairobi picture without guns are holding night sticks. It is very scary being pulled over in the dark (total darkness at 6:30 p.m. and for 12 hours every day of the year) by police at the side of the road with those guns! Three police standing on the side of the road, shine a flashlight beam of light into the driver’s face which is a signal to pull over. You hope they really are the police and that they are not corrupt police. Thankfully they accepted our explanation and sent us on our way.

• These Are the 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the World

  December 13, 2011 at 1:27am

  I keep seeing people who think all these cities are in Africa or are Muslim. Georgia is 10% Muslim, 83% Eastern Orthodox and 7% other Christian faiths. Georgia is located east of the Black Sea, south of Russia, north of Turkey.

  I have friends who live in Conakry. They are careful and have had no difficulties. I have friends who lived in N’Djamena until the Darfur crisis in Sudan spilled over into Chad. Chad is 53% Christian and 34% Muslim and is a country with Arabs in the north and subSaharan Africans in the south.

  I think what all these countries have in common is Europeans messing with tribal boundaries. Read their histories and learn what artificial borders create. It doesn’t have anything to do with ethnic backgrounds or religion. It has to do with forcing people to live together, picking one ethnic group as the “winner,” and then leaving them alone to stew in the mess you have created.

  I saw it in Kenya when I was there. What a beautiful country and wonderful people. But the English picked one ethnic group to educate and created intense hatred for that group which is just below the surface yet today. Our president’s father was part of that hatred and envy and, so, it affects us, too.

  Another dilemma many of these countries face is that they have so many young people – particularly young men – without hope. The military cannot hire all of them so they “hire themselves out” or are “kidnapped into” armed bands.

• Tony Perkins: ‘Jesus Rejected Collectivism’ & Was a Free-Market Enthusiast

  December 7, 2011 at 9:38pm

  In reply to Passerby.

  Proverbs 19:1 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

• Tony Perkins: ‘Jesus Rejected Collectivism’ & Was a Free-Market Enthusiast

  December 7, 2011 at 9:31pm

  In reply to Passerby.

  Genesis 26:12-14 And Isaac [the son of Abraham] sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him, and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.