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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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The Economy and the Christian- reflections on a limited government and the Church and abortion

Posted by Anthony on September 30, 2008

I haven’t posted much on the current economic crisis. A friend asked me what I thought. I told him that I was unconcerned about the ‘cost’ to the taxpayers since the truth is that the government will just be printing the money anyway… the dirty little secret is that the government hasn’t needed taxpayer dollars beneath its spending for who knows how long. The real issue here is confidence… in the market and in government.

The idea that the government will be able to solve a problem which it in fact created seems to me to be absurd on its face. Even liberals and Democrats seem to be nervous about trusting the government to solve this matter, though they seem reluctant to admit their role in creating the problem. All proposed solutions are patches in the sense that they only address confidence… they want to create the appearance of stability. A substantive solution would go beyond creating appearances of stability and actually create stability. In my view, that means allowing the bubble to burst, regardless of how painful that will be.

I think one of the lurking problems in the hearts of many is just how helpless they are in solving this issue. There seems to be little that they can do, personally. I think we should all come to grips with reality: this is the way the government prefers it. They want to be needed, and creating problems that only governments can create and solve are the best ways to do that.

This whole debacle is more evidence to me of the need for limited government. The more power you give to the government to help you the more power it has to hurt you. If only we could be sure that governments were filled with benevolent geniuses! Then we wouldn’t need to worry about it hurting us! Alas, the evidence has been in for a long time that many in the government are dumb scoundrels, and if they don’t start that way, that’s what they become. Read the rest of the entry… »