Spend first, pay later

I have just published an article for the Spokane Examiner, being a response to Demoncrats asking for Congress to increase the U.S. federal debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion. Click on the following link to go to the article.

Spend first, pay later

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The Messianic EU

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Now that the Lisbon Treaty has spelled an end to British sovereignty, making the Queen (God save her Majesty!) a vassal of the United States of Europe, it seems an appropriate time to review the Messianic, Utopian underpinings of the European project.
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See the section 'The Utopian Eschatology of the Maternal State' in my article 'The Maternal State'.
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The rise of the gender benders

Have you ever gone to bed and worried that you might wake up as a member of the opposite sex? Such is a very real possibility if some gender experts are to be believed. To read a semi-fictional account of my own personal struggles in this area, order the newly published Salvo 11 and turn straight to my article 'Gender Benders: Is My Sexual Identity an Accident Just Waiting to Happen?' Subscription information is available HERE.
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I'm sure there are all sorts of other great articles in this edition (there certainly was in Salvo 10, which I just finished reading yesterday) but I'm still waiting for Salvo 11 to arrive.
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Lisbon Treaty spells end of UK sovereignty

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"To the liberalism they profess, I prefer the liberties we enjoy; to the Rights of Man, the rights of Englishmen." Disraeli

Philosophers love to isolate essences, distilling them from the concrete circumstances which alone can give them coherence. They love to talk about liberty, justice and human rights without mentioning persons and circumstances. But essences without people are like a bowl of white sugar without any food, and slightly more potent: the later will lead to a tummy ache, the former may lead to a revolution. If anyone doubts what I say, just pick up a copy of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France and read the first section.

The corollary of praising liberty in the abstract, is that it becomes divorced from that sense of responsibility which alone can render liberty beneficial or obnoxious. The separation of liberty and responsibility, like the separation of sugar from food, breeds the idea that liberty is dangerous. This includes the liberties of nations as well as that of individuals. Enter post-nationalism.

As I have noted elsewhere, post-nationalism is the idea that nation states cannot be trusted with freedom, since they might abuse that freedom and produce another Hitler. This was the ideological underpining to the Lisbon Treaty. This treaty, which came into force on 1 December, 2009, removed the remaining vestiges of British sovereignty.


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My WND article

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For those who missed the opportunity at the time, click HERE to read my World Net Daily article on the totalitarian implications of nationalized health service.
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Is certain music sinful?

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Click HERE to read my discussion on the question of whether certain music is sinful.
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Marcelo Souza's class on the church

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I was too ill to attend church this morning so I have been listening to some more of Marcelo Souza's Sunday school class on the meaning, marks and function of the church.

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In addition to being an excellent communicator, Marcelo Souza's has a particular gift at being able to link together all the themes of redemption history, showing their culmination in the work of Christ and His church. The class, which is all available for download HERE addresses issues related to the Church – its marks, mission, nurture, gifts, government, structure, relation to the State, and more. What is the Church? How is it to glorify God? What distinctions need to be made, and what distortions should be corrected? What is its primary function – nurture or evangelism?

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Souza also shows how unbiblical are the dispensational ideas about the Jews, as well as the popular notion that you can have God as your Father without having the Church as your Mother. Following are the different sessions:

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The Identity of the Church: The Church in Relation to the Trinity
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 4/08/07: The 1st class in a series on Ecclesiology

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The Identity of the Church: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 4/15/07: The 2nd class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Definition of the Nicene Creed: "Apostolic"
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 4/22/07: The 3rd class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Definition of the Nicene Creed: "One"
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 4/29/07: The 4th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Definition of the Nicene Creed: "Holy" and "Catholic"
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 5/13/07: The 5th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Marks of the True Church: Preaching the Word, Proper Administration of Sacraments, Exercise of Discipline
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 5/20/07: The 6th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Perspectives on the Church: Visible/Invisible, Local/Universal, Organization/Organism, Militant/Triumphant
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 5/27/07: The 7th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Ministry of the Church: Worship, Nurture, and Witness
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 6/10/07: The 8th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Ministry of the Church: The Pyramid
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 6/17/07: The 9th class in a series on Ecclesiology

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Synopsis of the Class
Rev. Marcelo Souza, Sunday 6/24/07: The 10th class in a series on Ecclesiology

Five Topics Reviewed:

1. Identity of the Church
2. One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
3. Perspectives on the Church
4. Marks of the True Church
5. Ministry of the Church

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The Importance of Good Manners

I have just posted an article on Salvo's 'Signs of the Times' blog on the importance of good manners. Click HERE to read the article.

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Request

If any of my readers would like to do me a big favour or give me a Christmas present, I would like this entire blog put into a Word document so that I can eventually print it and have it as backup.

Questions about Homosexuality

Does the Bible really teach that homosexuality is a sin? If homosexuality was a very bad sin, why did Jesus never mention it? Why should we follow the Old Testament's prohibitions against homosexuality when we don't follow so much of the Old Testament's other commands? When Paul condemns homosexuality in Romans 1 and his other letters, isn’t it true that he was not addressing long-term stable homosexual partnerships? Wouldn’t he have just had in mind things like older men exploiting younger men, sexual pluralism and homosexuality as practiced in cult prostitution?

These and other questions I have answered HERE, as I attempted to make a convincing case that homosexuality is against clear Biblical teaching.

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