Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 132

The woman who married her daughter. And her son.

Here in Oklahoma, a woman is being charged with incest for marrying her daughter.  Eight years ago, she also got into trouble for marrying her son. Carl Trueman thinks that he has some good arguments for her defense attorney to use. From Carl Trueman,  A Family Affair | Carl R. Trueman | First Things When the [Read More...]

“Sully” screenwriter on vocation

The screenwriter for Clint Eastwood’s movie Sully, about the pilot who saved his passengers by landing in the Hudson River, is a devout Christian. In talking about his faith and his movie, Todd Komarnicki discusses vocation, though he doesn’t use the term.  But he gets the concept:  God works through people. From Czarina Ong, ‘Sully’ movie [Read More...]

Tattooing Christians for 700 years

We have blogged about the way Coptic Christians in Egypt use tattoos as a way to identify themselves as Christians to their Muslim neighbors.  How else can Islamic mobs know whom to attack, since the Copts look the same and speak the same language as any other Egyptians?  The Coptic Christians are in your face [Read More...]

Making babies without women

The Frankenstein fear of reproductive engineering so far has been the future possibility that women could have babies without men, rendering males obsolete.  But now scientists are working on making ordinary cells function as eggs, so that they can be fertilized by sperm.  They have already made this work with baby mice. So maybe women, with the [Read More...]

Moral decline update

“Radical and aggressive secularism and atheism have replaced religion in virtually every school and throughout public life in America.”  So says Jewish pundit Dennis Prager, who goes on to list some more signs of moral decline and cultural suicide. From Dennis Prager,  Western Culture – Moral Suicide | National Review: Some recent developments in the [Read More...]

ESV makes its final changes

The English Standard Version of the Bible (ESV), in third place in popularity to the King James Version (KJV) and the International Version (NIV), has published its final changes, a mere 29 verses and 52 words.  This “permanent text edition” will be the final update to the ESV and will remain unchanged from now on. [Read More...]

The health of our candidates

During ceremonies at the 9/11 memorial, Hillary Clinton fainted.   Democrats and their media comrades have been waxing indignant at questions about Mrs. Clinton’s health, due to reports of her needing help to go up stairs, her coughing fits, and various other alleged signs of bad health.  They called such concerns “conspiracy theories,” though it [Read More...]

Sugar industry paid scientists to blame fat

In the neverending battle against obesity, heart disease, and bad health, what are we supposed to avoid eating, fat or sugar? The question is important, because, if you fear fat, those fat-free products you may be substituting are packed with sugar and other carbohydrates. We should consult science to settle the issue, but it turns [Read More...]

The 9/11 attacks 15 years later

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  I remember the shock and the horror of that day, watching it all unfold on television.  I also remember the unity that Americans felt in the aftermath–how we all pulled together, the emotions we all shared, from grief about those 3,000 who died to inspiration from those [Read More...]

The deplorables

Hillary Clinton puts a name to that category of Americans that Democrats most despise:  “the deplorables.” These are the “haters,” those whom liberals deem to be sexist, homophobic, racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic.  To take those ideological and psychological terms as liberals use them, those who question feminism, don’t believe in gay marriage, take the cops’ side in [Read More...]