Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 226
August 20, 2015
Donald Trump and the Führerprinzip
A strong leader will rise up to solve all of our problems by sheer force of his will. We easily succumb to that kind of promise in businesses and even in churches. And even in national governments. This trust in an all-powerful leader is called Führerprinzip. Yes, it was refined in Nazi Germany, but it [Read More...]
The new Planned Parenthood video
“Hey Holly, come over here, I want you to see something kind of cool, kind of neat.” From Planned Parenthood Clinic Cut Through Dead Baby’s Face to Get His Intact Brain – Breitbart: Planned Parenthood is working hard to counter the steady drip of damning videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress, but not [Read More...]
August 19, 2015
We’re number 119!
I just learned that this blog was ranked #119 in the top 300 Christian Blogs for Ministry, as determined by a complicated algorithm by ChurchRelevance.com. OK, “Cranach” is misspelled, but still, I am honored. You should see the list, which probably contains other blogs that you’d like to check out: Top 300 Christian Blogs – [Read More...]
Why you hate talking on the phone
Do you dislike having to call up people, in real time, on the phone? Would you rather text or e-mail? The Millennial generation tends to feel that way, I learned, and I admit that I do too. Media scholar Ian Bogost tries to explain why this is. In doing so, he goes into the difference [Read More...]
Obama could still implement the Iran deal
Even if Congress votes down the agreement with Iran to drop sanctions in return for modest nuclear restrictions, and even if Congress over-rides a presidential veto of their resolution of non-support, President Obama could still implement much of the arrangement by Executive Orders. See how after the jump. From Deb Riechmann, My Way News – [Read More...]
Answering the Planned Parenthood defenders
Megan Fox answers the Planned Parenthood defenders’ talking points, as promoted on a recent viral video, in the course of which I learned some new things. Planned Parenthood doesn’t give away contraceptives; it sells them. It doesn’t do cancer screenings. And although it may be that only 3% of its business comes from abortion, 90% [Read More...]
August 18, 2015
Yeats saw it coming
The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post both have pieces on W. B. Yeats’ great poem The Second Coming. One of the defining poems of the 20th century, Yeats wrote it back in 1919, but it seems to predict the rise of Nazi Germany, the growth of Communism, and now postmodernism, the rise of [Read More...]
Legalizing “sex work” as “a profession like any other”
Amnesty International, the respected human rights group, has taken up a new cause: the legalization of prostitution world-wide. Libertarians have long supported this, for, well, libertarian reasons. Now expect liberals to embrace this goal as a way of empowering women (which is how Amnesty International frames it). But would it really empower women? Wouldn’t this [Read More...]
The abortion empire strikes back
Planned Parenthood is rallying, attempting to prosecute the filmmakers and getting lots of support from other liberal judges, state Attorney Generals, and Democratic lawmakers. That’s like in Ben Jonson’s Volpone, when the villain, though caught red-handed, plays the legal system so that the good guys who caught him are the ones who go jail! Also [Read More...]
August 17, 2015
Walking away & walking it back
Another good sermon yesterday from Pastor Douthwaite on the third week the Gospel lesson has been on John 6, that rich text in which Jesus proclaims Himself to be the Bread of Life. When he went so far as to say that he was not just being metaphorical, that His flesh is “true food” and [Read More...]
