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Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 70
June 20, 2017
Russia threatens to shoot down U.S. planes over Syria
In the course of supporting a rebel faction battling not only President Assad but ISIS, U.S. fighter planes shot down a Syrian jet. Now Russia, which supports Assad, is threatening to shoot down American and coalition aircraft. Photo of Russian fighter plane by Vitaly V. Kuzmin (http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/464) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...) or CC BY-SA 4.0 [Read More...]
June 19, 2017
Infant morality
Christians who don’t believe in baptizing infants generally hold to the notion of “the age of accountability.” This means that children below a certain age (which varies) do not really sin because they don’t know what they are doing and therefore are not accountable. After they reach that point, they can understand their sinfulness, [Read More...]
Trump’s jeopardy
You never want to be the subject of a federal investigation. Even if they can’t pin the crime they are investigating on you, they can convict you for your conduct during the investigation. Remember Martha Stewart? She was investigated for an illegal stock sale. But there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that. Nevertheless, she was [Read More...]
Amazon will buy Whole Foods
Amazon.com has announced that it is buying the Whole Foods grocery chain for $13.7 billion. Commenters are saying that this will help Amazon.com sell groceries on-line. At the news the stock of traditional grocery stores, including Costco, have plummeted. But the draw of Whole Foods its organic offerings and the attractive atmosphere of the store? I don’t know [Read More...]
June 16, 2017
“Hell is other people” vs. Heaven is other people
In his play No Exit, existentialist thinker Jean Paul Sartre said and portrayed that “Hell is other people.” In a post that deals with the question of eternal punishment and the alternative views of universalism and annihilationism that we have been talking about, Lutheran writer Nathan Rinne develops the idea that, no, Hell has to do [Read More...]
There may be adverse aspects to each of our rights
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was one of the Congressman at the baseball field attacked by the “progressive” gunman. He was asked the inevitable question about whether the incident changed his mind about “the gun situation” in America. That is to say, you Republicans support the Second Amendment right to keep and to bear arms. Now [Read More...]
Liberalism’s obsession with language
Camille Paglia is a feminist, a leftist, a lesbian, an atheist. . . .And yet she is a harsh critic of today’s feminists, leftists, gays, and atheists. A new interview with her in the Weekly Standard offers some fascinating takes on Donald Trump (whom she defends), Democrats (whom she criticizes), Transgenderism (which she says is impossible), [Read More...]
June 15, 2017
Statistics on the churched, unchurched, & dechurched
Recent statistics from a Barna study on cities with the largest and smallest church attendance show that 73% of Americans claim to be Christians. 38% of Americans are “churched,” having gone to a religious service in the last seven days. 34% are “dechurched,” being former active churchgoers who have not attended a service in the [Read More...]
Gunman attacks Republican congressmen
Seventeen Republican congressmen, two senators, and various staffers, family members, and friends (26 in all) were practicing in an Alexandria park for the annual congressional baseball game. (After the jump, see the complete list of who was there.) A man approached, asking a departing lawmaker if the group were Democrats or Republicans. He then went [Read More...]
Kevin Durant got his championship
Last year the Oklahoma City came this close to beating the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs. Golden State then came this close beating the Cleveland Cavaliers, but failed. Whereupon, on the 4th of July, the Thunder’s superstar Kevin Durant signed with Golden State, putting an already super team into the realm of being virtually unbeatable. So [Read More...]
