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 3/30/09 9:56 AM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | |  |  |
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Scott McMahan wrote:
Poetry is the stuff 99% of readers skip over in Lord of the Rings. It is boring. Let it die.
If you like to read really bad poetry, try finding translations of non-English works into rhyming English. Other languages have words that all end in the same ending, so rhyme is natural and flows easily. English does not. After about one page, the object of a rhyming English translation is to keep the rhymes going, at all costs. Most of them get silly trying to make things rhyme, and it's almost an art form to abuse the language to make it rhyme. Ah, dear friend, try reading some real English poetry, and you might change your mind - although unfortunately much of it serves as a vessel for bad theology. There's Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Donne, Marvell, Dryden, Burns...If you want something closer to now, skip the dismal drudgery of the Lord of the Rings (the whole thing is dismal, not just the poetry) and read some Yeats or even some Hardy or Eliot. Any of the good English poets are far superior entertainment compared to the very best television you've ever seen, but again, just as dangerous spiritually if you are not discerning. |
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| 3/30/09 9:42 AM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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"J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, sifted through more than 300 names as part of the search. "It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community." Remember, Mr. Obama is not a Muslim, even though his father and step-father were, and he spent his early years in a madrassah in Pakistan, and he is actively including them in his administration but "under the radar," and he is seeking rapprochement with the Islamists in the Middle East, and his "pastor" of 20 years actively promotes Hamas, and his claims to be a Christian are ruined by the details of what he believes about Jesus . . . no, he's not a Muslim, you crazy right-wing racists! |
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| 3/30/09 9:35 AM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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Callard wrote:
Here is a realistic reason for you Archbish Rowan. Mind you is the C.of E./Anglican comm. any better than this? It is ironic that Old Eyebrows is suddenly concerned about the presence of Christian views on the BBC, since he himself is a promoter of sharia law. How does he say such things with a straight face? |
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 3/29/09 1:24 PM |
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“ Great Sermon! ”
Amen! Thank you for this wonderful message from John chapter 10...! |
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| 3/27/09 3:08 PM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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Faithful Remnant wrote:
They'd do better to drop in at the local cathedral or church and light a candle or incense. A little more scriptural anyway. And take a few moments for prayer at home. It isn't that difficult or time consuming. Scriptural...!? What New Testament book is that candle-lighting and incense-burning in again? Was it 3 Timothy 10:1-5....? |
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| 3/27/09 3:03 PM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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Believing in sovereign election does not decrease the need to preach the gospel to others, it actually motivates people to do it, because one never knows who are the elect.It also removes the fear some have because it depends not on our technique or persuasiveness, but on the clarity with which we declare God's word. The point is to speak the gospel clearly, fearlessly, and authoritatively, and leave the rest up to the Holy Spirit. (How much more fearful to imagine that our failure to do a good job might result in a sinner spending eternity in hell?) Sow the seed, declare the word, water with love and attention and teaching, and let God give the increase. Of course, as Kenny hints at, many of the Baptist brethren tend to preach at least once a month on giving or (worse) tithing, rather than focusing on telling people who God is and what Jesus has accomplished for us. They would do much better to teach the folks they have in the pews by systematic, expository preaching. This would equip the others who sit under the teaching to do what God has for them to do - but I have already gone beyond what most in the Convention consider "church," I suspect... |
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| 3/26/09 6:09 PM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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Neil wrote:
I am reluctant to accept that the rise of the German NSDAP was solely or primarily due to economics. In the preceding century, Germany was a hotbed of bad philosophy. Italy got Fascism w/o Germany's economic circumstances (and they were on the winning side in WW1). I certainly don't know with certainty that the US will go through Weimar-esque hyperinflation, but I do know from scripture that the world will during the tribulation.Italy had her own hyperinflation in the '20s as well, btw, but I would not lay the entirety of the rise of fascism and Nazism to economics. Absolutely it was the result of bad philosophy resulting from the abandonment of sound theology and the rejection of Christ. It seems the closest historical parallel we have to what is happening today economically and politically is the situation in Europe right after WW1. It's not a perfect comparison, of course, but the last time socialist ideas were so ascendant was around that period, and it is interesting that there was widespread economic trouble then, too. Of course, there are other parallels: Rome's gradual descent into utter madness and debauchery after Augustus comes to mind, for one; the rapid decay of Great Britain's empire after WW1 for another. |
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| 3/25/09 2:58 PM |
| Robert | | North Carolina | | | |
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Ken W wrote:
Finally, a religious studies course that isn't about preaching, but is instead about teaching students what a variety of beliefs are, why they're believed, and how they're practiced.
If only we could have such courses in the U.S. Isn't that what they teach in seminaries these days? Oh, maybe you mean for the little ones. I guarantee they won't learn anything about the real Jesus in public schools, or much else that's useful, for that matter. That's your job, dad. |
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| 3/25/09 9:54 AM |
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"Lt. John Hotz of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said the report comes from publicly available, trend data on militias. It was compiled by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a "fusion center" in Jefferson City that combines resources from the federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. The center, which opened in 2005, was set up to collect local intelligence to better combat terrorism and other criminal activity, he said."All this is an educational thing," Hotz said of the report. "Troopers have been shot by members of groups, so it's our job to let law enforcement officers know what the trends are in the modern militia movement." How long before another Waco or Ruby Ridge? Is Eric Holder less volatile than Janet Reno? Where were all these militia guys during the Bush years? What are the sources of their data? What other agencies feed this information to the "fusion center"? Does Jack Bauer work at the "fusion center"? Do they do cold fusion at the "fusion center"? What other criminal activity besides terrorism do they study there? What troopers have been shot by militia members? Is this a big trend the media have neglected to cover, or is it a reference to stuff that happened 20 years ago? Where is the camp that I will be sent to? |
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| 3/24/09 9:55 AM |
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Lance Eccles wrote:
Just as Jesus did at the last supper. But then, I guess Jesus was heavily into magic.
"This is my body"? What decent Calvinist could take Jesus seriously when he said things like that? One need not be a calvinist to note that immediately following our Lord's words, the disciples did not then cut slices off his flesh and eat them. In other words, it's what's called a "figure of speech." You could look it up in a book by a man named Bullinger for a fuller explanation. |
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