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A Christian checks out Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
| June 7, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, book reviews, Christianity and Culture, End Times, General, homosexuality, human rights, Obama, original sin, politics |
Having only read excerpts of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals, I was pleased to have the opportunity to sit down and read it for myself in its entirety. Knowing how influential Alinksy was for the young Obama (and many others who now occupy seats of power) I am more worried than I was before now that I’ve actually read this book. Go to the library and pick up the book. You need to read it.
The subtitle of the book is “A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” It is not an inappropriate subtitle. Alinsky is all about pragmatism and realism. Alinsky is dismissive of ethical questions related to the question “Does the end justify the means?” He says:
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe’s “conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action”; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind. The choice must always be for the latter. Action is for mass salvation and not for the individual’s personal salvation. He who sacrifices mass good for his personal conscience has a peculiar conception of “personal salvation”; he doesn’t care enough for people to be “corrupted” for them. (pg 25, chapter titled: Of Means and Ends)
gun control needed to stem abortionist killings in churches
| June 1, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, End Times, General, human rights, Obama |
It has been noted that Dr. Tiller was gunned down in his church. It is a wonder that no one has proposed the obvious: more gun control is necessary. Allow me to be the first to call for it publicly.
The first thing we need to do is make it illegal to have guns in churches in Kansas.
Then we need to make it into a crime to single out abortionists for murder. We should tack it onto the Hate Crimes legislation coming down the pike. There is nothing worse than hate inspired murder.
After that, I think we should take the National Organization of Women’s statement today and run with it. They said: “Bringing the killers to justice is not enough – the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades.”
Yes, let’s root them out.
Wisdom is Proved Right by Her Children; Evil Proved Evil by His
| February 2, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, Global Warming, morality, original sin, philosophy |
This weekend I read one of the scariest things I have heard coming out of the Global Warming crowd. That is saying something. I have documented elsewhere on this blog some other things they’ve said, like comparing denying man-made Global Warming to denying the holocaust. This is so disgusting I almost sat down and wrote a book exposing the various principles at work in it but stopped when I thought of at least one that is already written: C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.
In summary, the London Times article references a certain Jonathon Porritt, a Global Warming burearucrat who reportedly says,
“I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate,” Porritt said.
“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.
Legislating Morality is For the Birds- Walmart Tramplers not to be Deterred by Laws
| December 2, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
By now have we all heard about the tragic incident on ‘Black Friday’ where a Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death in the early morning hour? Predictably, New York legislators aim to prevent another occurence by…. passing a law.
Perhaps ‘fair’ and ‘right’ has nothing to do with it but rather it is a question of practicality. I used to be of the school that said that ‘ignorance is no excuse’ in regards to following the law or rules (ie, in my classroom when I was a teacher) but then I had a short list of rules that had enough sense to them that they could be easily learned, easily remembered, and easily applied. Who possibly could make themselves aware of the tens of thousands of pages worth of legislation passed now in this country, not even including our tax code?
Liberal Outcry: Judicial Activism on the DC Gun Ban
| June 26, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
Already I’m seeing and hearing reactions to today’s Supreme Court tossing of the DC gun ban saying that this is conservative judicial activism. As I understand it (I haven’t read the decisions myself), even the dissent is making that accusation. I don’t agree, personally. I believe that the ruling was constructionist (which makes me wonder…
Interview question on the writing of Fidelis- a post apocalyptic setting for moral exploration
| May 25, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
I was handed a bunch of interview questions a while back and we actually had an audio interview but that interview is now lost in the hills of Argentina (I kid you not). I have been answering them one by one on my blog at www.birthpangs.com but this one (and a couple to come) I…
Texas ‘Polygamists’ have rights too?
| May 23, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
I am gently informed by Mormons that the Mormon-like polygamist community in Texas are not Mormons. Read their arguments and my initial post on this subject here. ———- So, a Texas court has ruled that the State acted inappropriately as it extricated more than 400 children from the Texas polygamist compound. Here are two articles…
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