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Speaking of decontextualizing…
Yikes! WordPress.com is sentient! As you can see at the bottom of this post, WordPress.com kindly adds links that it thinks are relevant to the topic at hand. On my last post, I found this link. WordPress.com answered the question I proposed for comment with a link to these: An astute commenter on that linked [...]
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Tags: Context, Interpretation
Here’s another great quote from the good Dr Jim West: Jay [arguing for gay marriage] has, just like his opponents in the issue, politicized the Bible to his own ends. He has decontextualized it, accused it of being unjust (from an anachronistic, modern point of view alone), and then suggested its message needs to be [...]
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Tags: Context, Interpretation, Theology
The New Gold Rush
Consider this ad spotted at AntiWar.com: The “buy gold!” trend seems to be raging in light of the recent economic events, but does gold really have any more value than some shares of stock? I suppose it’s somewhat easier to sell a bar of gold than a piece of paper with some numbers on it, [...]
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Fightin’ Texans
Strong words from Texas to the Fed here. See the press release below: I’m glad somebody’s standing up to the overreaching federal government. You?
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Does this give anyone else misgivings? http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/hillary.clinton.court/index.html Should the law in question even exist? (Hopefully we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming by the end of the week. It’s midterms around here. In the meantime, share your thoughts in the comments.)
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Tags: First Amendment
The AIG Bonuses
When the government hands out a pile of money, does anybody really expect the people in control of it not to take a cut? Or did somebody really think they’d just “do the right thing,” selflessly using it to make up for dubious actions in the past? Wait, maybe that’s not so selfless either.
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Tags: Common Sense, Sin
Get Excited
For lack of time to share something salient (midterms), I give you this: Chuck Norris for President … of Texas SWEET! Update: Here it is straight from the horse’s mouth.
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Tags: Random
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