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New Testament 166

    Matthew 18:1-5 Mark 9:33-37 Luke 9:46-48 Compare John 3:3, 5; 13:20   The idea that we should be childlike has become a cliche.  Sometimes we scarcely hear it.  And, sometimes, we misuse or misunderstand it.   But, coupled with concepts that the greatest of us should (in a sense) be the least of [Read More...]

“The tolerant jeweler who harbored impure opinions about same-sex marriage”

    Is this really what we’re coming to?   A person who objects to same-sex “marriage” cannot refuse to provide services for such a marriage, but must keep his or her moral convictions private even if they seem to implicate him or her in an immoral act.  However, after he or she has provided those [Read More...]

“Relief efforts continue in Nepal”

    Here’s an item that I missed from over a week ago, about initial Church efforts to aid victims of the massive recent earthquakes in Nepal:   https://www.lds.org/church/news/relie...    

“Religion Poisons Everything!” (30)

    The vast temple complex at Angkor Wat, founded in the 1100s at a Hindu shrine, though it later became Buddhist, is another of the means by which religion has blighted our world.   In the twentieth century, though, a group of idealistic atheist reformers called the Khmer Rouge sought to reform and transform [Read More...]

“Religion Poisons Everything!” (29)

    If El Greco hadn’t so often devoted himself to religious painting, he might have become a famous and respected artist.   Too bad.   “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’”  (John Greenleaf Whittier)    

“The worst moment for the atheist”

    “The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful, and has nobody to thank.” Dante Gabriel Rossetti   In 2011, I offered some parallel thoughts here:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...    

Next time you’re thinking about voting . . .

  Thanks to Jeffery Perry for bringing these to my notice.  Otherwise, I don’t know where or to whom to give credit:        

Missing: Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado

  Missing   $15,000 Reward for information that leads to the finding of Elizabeth Elena Laguna-Salgado     If you know where she is, please contact the Provo Police Department at either 9-1-1 or 801-852-6210.   https://www.facebook.com/elizabethlag...   http://www.people.com/article/elizabe...   Elizabeth Elena Laguna Salgado is 26 years old, weighs roughly 125 pounds, and stands about [Read More...]

“Is the Evangelical My Brother?: A Sea-Change in Mopologetics”

    Under the above title, on the largely apostate/atheist message board where he’s pseudonymously defamed, caricatured, and misrepresented me for the better part of ten years now, a strange personality that I used to call my “Malevolent Stalker” has responded to my recent article in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, which is titled [Read More...]

“Banning squirt-gun fights should earn the Boy Scouts the Nanny State merit badge”

      I revisit a story on which I’ve already commented this morning:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...   The wussification of America continues apace.