Going on Record

Post By: Travis

I just wanted to point out that the media and the left are in transition... notice the subtle transition to the phrase "climate change" from "global warming"...

Since there is no science to prove that man has a significant impact on global warming, and the fact that the earth has actually been cooling since 1998 is beginning to have a negative affect on their scare tactics.

My prediction is that the dems are already changing their course, in the subtlest of ways by using a more generic term, in fear that as the public gains knowledge about this so called "crisis" they learn that the whole thing is a hoax.

The new term will allow them to change tact, and claim that the coming ice age will be the fault of the oil companies, auto makers, and other large "evil" corporations. It will be of course, up to the oh so knowledgeable leftists to save us poor, helpless citizens, and to keep the poor kangaroos from freezing to death by stopping all the drilling operations in Australia.

Barack 's Labyrinth

I've been trying for a while to figure out who Obama reminds me of... and it finally hit me today!


Just as charming, just as creepy, and just as untrustworthy!

(If you have not seen Pan's Labyrinth, it is a very interesting film.)


Of course... then there is:

Food Vs Fuel

Here's an article about what I have been saying for more than a year! Turning food into "alternative fuels" to help the "global warming crisis" is a BAD IDEA!

Fox News Article

The fact is that biofuels are a waste, as they result in increased food prices, decreased food supplies (go figure that whole supply and demand thing works) and creates fuels that are inefficient and hard on your engine.

Yet to pacify the green trend, gas companies tout it as a great thing for you.

Avoid any fuels that claim to contain E85 or any type of ethanol. Shell gasolines all contain this, so drive on to the next station if you please.

God and Rocks

Post By: Travis

Mark called me this morning with the age old question of "Can God make a rock so big that he can't lift it?" Although we had both heard this question many times, it is one in which it's hard to put an answer into words. It seems to be a valid question at first glance, and seems to be one of those questions that disproves the possibility of an all powerful creator because in either answer to the question you define a limit to a presumably limitless God.

Below is an article I found on the topic:

Gregory Koukl

This is known as a pseudo-question. It’s like asking, “Can God win an arm wrestling match against Himself?” or, “If God beat Himself up, who would win?” or, “Can God’s power defeat His own power?”

The question is nonsense because it treats God as if He were two instead of one. The phrase “stronger than” can only be used when two subjects are in view, for example, Bill is stronger than Bob, my left arm is stronger than my right arm, etc. Since God is only one, and since He has no parts, it makes no sense to ask if He is stronger than Himself. That’s why this is a pseudo-question. It proves nothing about any deficiency in God because the question itself is incoherent.

This pits one aspect of God’s ability against another--in this case, His creative ability against His ability to lift. The goal is to show that there are some things God can’t do, thus undermining the Christian concept of an omnipotent Creator. This illustration, however, miscasts the biblical notion of omnipotence, and is therefore guilty of the straw man fallacy.

Omnipotence doesn’t mean that God can do anything. The concept of omnipotence has to do with power, not ability per se. In fact, there are many things God can’t do. He can’t make square circles. He can’t create a morally free creature who couldn’t choose evil. He can’t instantly create a sixty-year-old man (not one that looks sixty, but one that is sixty). None of these, though, have to do with power. Instead, they are logically contradictory, and therefore contrary to God’s rational nature. The “Can God make a rock so big He can’t lift it?” challenge is no threat to Christian theism

I liked this answer, because it helps me wrap my mind around what I have always known to be a flawed question. The fact is that God does have limits, but those are defined by the very nature of reason and logic.

God, in the end, is not limitless, nor should he be. We all know that God cannot sin, so why doesn't that disprove his existence? Because sinning is defined as going against the nature of God, and therefore impossible to do by God himself.

What are Atheists So Afraid Of?

This post by: Travis

Fear is the only word I can come up with. After reading an article like this one, in which a man is trying to use the courts to not allow his teenage son to attend a Catholic high school. The kid wants to go there, his mom wants him to go there, but the dad doesn't want him to go because the dad is an Atheist.

The most prevalent articles you find on Atheists making the news all have that one element in common. Fear. They are afraid to let their kids be exposed to the idea of God. They are afraid of having leaders in this country that believe in God, they are offended by the very idea that we believe something they don't.

Some part of me tells me that they fear the idea that their kids will start to believe if they are exposed to the idea. So what's so wrong with that? Are they afraid that their kids will change? That the child they raised will become some sort of zealot? Or is it perhaps that they are afraid their kids will find something that they don't have?

It hurts my heart to see people living with this kind of hatred and fear of belief. Even more so than those who just choose not to believe. It hurts because in the back of my mind I am always wondering what we, as Christians, did to offend. We are hardly blameless in this. It may have been someone in the person's past, or even in past generations of the family, but this kind of fervor only comes from something you are passionate about, and the ONLY way I can see being passionate about preventing people from believing in something is if that something has wronged you.

I know that there could be other reasons out there... but all I want to do is find a way of communicating faith in a new way so that people loose the stereotypes of bigotry, hate, hypocrisy and start seeing Christians as a people filled with love, and hope. Something that starts with us as individuals...

Where do we begin? How do we start healing wounds that Christianity has inflicted on people for so long?

Symantics

Correct lil bro.

I believe they require counselors to be available pre and post op., not asking my brothers and sisters to perform abortions.... just love those having them.

Loved the idea of an adoption booth outside of the clinic! Can we start a movement?

- "That is why a cold, self righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. But of course, it is better to be neither." - His friends call him Jack

On My Homeless Guy Analogy

Post by: Travis

How do you presume to know that he needed food more than a cigarette at that particular time? I loved your illustration, but you forgot one thing.... The moral man, and presumably the Christian as well should have made your same decision. He feeds the homeless person and feels good, using after tax dollars. The man in the suit has already handed him your pre tax dollars and therefore we have a fat, smoking, unemployed ward of the state who will cost you many, many creamy delicious Marble Slab ice cream cups in the future with un payable medical expenses and hospital stays.

Well I agree that I cannot presume to KNOW what he needs more, but I can presume to know what I am willing to support. Cigarettes are not a charity I support, just as I would not donate to my local Al Quida recruiting office.