2009-03-26

Turk points out that people weren’t reading their blog (relatively speaking) when they were on the topic of Catholic apologetics – i.e. they aren’t converted by it. “The reason to leave Catholicism is actually foolishness when viewed by people seeking a reason: it's that Jesus Christ was crucified, and because death had no power to hold him, He was raised on the third day.” More than 1000 reasons

Turretinfan isn’t convinced. Frank Turk on Apologetics with Romanism

Freeman Dyson, a great 20th century physicist, (and Obama-supporting, Bush-bashing Princetonian) opposes global warming alarmism. “There’s a lot of truth to the statement Greens are people who never had to worry about their grocery bills,” he says. He wrote that climate change has become an “obsession” — the primary article of faith for “a worldwide secular religion” known as environmentalism. Greens are people who never had to worry about their grocery bills

Phillips writes this about Obama: “The Heritage Foundation's Conn Carroll shows and details what a financial disaster the Obama budget is and would be. Dwarfing any Bush deficit, the Obama plan would threaten to bankrupt America. Yet the most inexperienced, unqualified, yet arrogant man ever to take the office pushes stubbornly ahead, insisting on such brilliant moves as cutting tax-credits for charitable giving.” He also has an interesting comment on how taking cues on whether to spank from studies [as if studies tell us what ought to be, and serve as moral guidance!] is really pragmatism, rather than faithfulness to Scripture. 09

Hays has some comments on objections to Christianity based on (a) God’s acts of destroying whole nations, including infants, and (b) infants possibly going to hell. i) The underlying presumption is that infants are innocent. ii) Ironically, atheists and unbelievers often support abortion – so what’s their problem? Really, they’re still influence by Christian ethics. “moral time-lag.” iii) The objection poses a pseudoproblem. If you presume that infants are innocent, then infant mortality is not a punitive sanction. Rather, it’s for their ultimate good that He kills them (all will die, and innocents are surely saved). If they aren’t innocent, then they have it coming, and God isn’t unjust. iv) This means that a Christian doesn’t need to land on a position (infants are innocent, or guilty in Adam) to rebut the objection. The fate of infants