Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 179
February 29, 2016
Political developments
(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. This, after Christie repeatedly said during his campaign that Trump was not qualified to be president. Now Christie is appearing with Trump, mocking Marco Rubio like he did in the recent debate. Think he is jockeying to be Vice President? This may [Read More...]
February 26, 2016
Muslims agree that we do not worship the same God
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? Catholics, liberals, and some evangelicals are saying, yes. When Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins made that claim, it blew up into a controversy that ended with her leaving the institution. But the favored position, to show our sensitivity to Muslims, is to say that both religions, for all of [Read More...]
Democrats too are voting with their middle fingers
Just as grassroots Republicans are voting for Donald Trump as a defiant protest against their own establishment, grassroots Democrats are voting for Bernie Sanders for much the same reasons. Read the fiery anti-Clinton, anti-liberal establishment rhetoric of Camille Paglia, quoted and linked after the jump. Note especially her devastating critique of how the Democratic party [Read More...]
Why so many evangelicals are for Trump
Why are so many evangelicals supporting such a flagrant non-evangelical as Donald Trump? Ben Domenech, publisher of the Federalist, gives the best answer I’ve heard: The evangelicals who support Trump recognize that they have lost the culture wars, that Christianizing the government is futile, that America is no longer a Christian nation. What they want [Read More...]
February 25, 2016
Debate post-mortem
What are your thoughts on the Thursday night Republican debate? Who won? Who improved his standing? Who might have lost support? Rubio and Cruz were both hitting Trump hard, bringing up lots of questionable things that Trump has done, such as his record of hiring illegal aliens and starting the phony Trump University. Do you [Read More...]
Republicans debate tonight
The Republican presidential nominees hold their 10th debate tonight on CNN, starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. This is just before Super Tuesday, March 1, when nearly half of the delegates needed for nomination will be elected. So, for the candidates, everything is at stake. So far the non-Trump candidates have been spending most [Read More...]
You know you are a theologian of glory if. . . .
An important Lutheran distinction is between the theology of the Cross and the theology of glory. Jeff Mallinson, over at the Jagged Word, offers 9.5 Theses on theologians of glory. After the jump, I list the theses, but you will want to go to the site to see what he says about each one. From Jeff Mallinson, 9.5 [Read More...]
“We’re voting with our middle finger”
Donald Trump supports Obamacare, higher taxes, and gun control. He is weak on abortion, private property, and civil liberties. He doesn’t care about limited government or free market economics. He is a boastful womanizer. He doesn’t think he needs forgiveness from God. On issue after issue, he goes against what conservatives and tea party populists [Read More...]
Unappeasable
In a column about whether the president should replace Antonin Scalia (worth reading on that topic alone), Peggy Noonan digresses on how the left today is unappeasable–pushing and pushing, allowing no compromise or dissenters, demanding everything. And how the current political climate shows that the general public is starting to push back. From Peggy Noonan: The [Read More...]
February 24, 2016
Nevada results
Donald Trump won big in Nevada, taking 45.9% of the vote and winning 14 delegates. Marco Rubio came in second, with 23.9% and 7 delegates. Ted Cruz was third, with 21.4% and 6 delegates. Then John Kasich, with 4.8% and 1, and Ben Carson, with 3.6% and 1. Trump was the favorite among evangelicals, conservatives, and [Read More...]
