Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 68
June 28, 2017
Marriage Is a Civil Matter, Not a Church Power
Lutherans particularly cannot "leave the government out of marriage." Their confessions and theology don't let them.
CNN producer caught admitting its Trump coverage is bogus
James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has been embarrassing the left with his surreptitious videos. Now he has recorded CNN supervising producer John Bonifield ridiculing journalistic ethics and admitting that they are “witch hunting” Trump. After the jump, read an account and watch the video. From Project Veritas|American Pravda: CNN: Project Veritas has released a video of [Read More...]
Murder by text
Seventeen-year-old Michelle Carter had a boyfriend, Conrad Roy, who was 18. Conrad was plagued by suicidal thoughts, which he talked over with Michelle, particularly via texts. Michelle urged him to do it. One night he took a gasoline-powered water pump into his pickup truck and rolled up the windows. He started it, intending to die of [Read More...]
June 27, 2017
Lutheran church wins Supreme Court case
Trinity Lutheran Church (LCMS) of Columbia, Missouri, won its case at the Supreme Court. The state of Missouri had denied its application for a program to use shredded rubber to make its playground more safe, invoking a state law against taxpayer money going to a religious institution. Said Chief Justice John Roberts in the decision, “the exclusion [Read More...]
Supreme Court lifts stay on travel ban & will hear the Wedding Cake case
The Supreme Court re-instated President Trump’s travel ban, in part, and will hear the case in October. The court also agreed to hear the case of the Colorado baker who was found guilty of discrimination for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage. The baker claims that his religious liberty and his [Read More...]
Paying to upgrade your accommodations in prison
Convicted felons in California can often upgrade their prison cells–for a price. For $100 a night, the cost of an inexpensive hotel, prisoners can serve their time in a city jail that will offer them a flat screen TV, new beds, and the use of a computer. Not to mention less brutality. Letting prisoners pay [Read More...]
June 26, 2017
Most Christians have non-Christian worldviews
A new study from Barna has found that most “practicing Christians” in America–defined as those who attend church regularly and say that their faith is important to them–hold to non-Christian worldviews. Or at least elements of those worldviews. Only 17% look at the world through a predominantly Biblical perspective. Here is the breakdown: 61% hold [Read More...]
Dissolving Illinois
Due to its long history of corruption, political paralysis, and bad management, the state of Illinois is a basketcase. It has $15 billion in unpaid bills, $251 billion in pension liability, and a looming revenue drop. It hasn’t had a budget in three years. State lawmakers are meeting in a special session with a July [Read More...]
Court throws out most charges against makers of Planned Parenthood videos
Pro-abortion fanatics have been trying to get David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt put in prison for making tapes of Planned Parenthood employees joking about their grisly business and talking about selling the organs of their victims. The state of California has cooperated with this attempted persecution by filing 15 felony charges against the pair, mostly having [Read More...]
June 23, 2017
Von Uhde’s “Let the Little Children Come to Me”
More from Fritz von Uhde, the 19th century Lutheran artist we’ve been discussing. This one, “Let the Little Children Come to Me,” is an example of von Uhde’s device of portraying Bible stories in contemporary settings (that is, contemporary for his time). The effect is for viewers to see their reality of these Biblical truths for [Read More...]
