Christmas Video of the Day
A two-fer today: In the Bleak Midwinter/The First Noel
Welcome to Harry Reid’s Banana Republic of America
This, my friends, is unbelievable. No, check that; given the lack of anything resembling decency on the part of so much of our Congress, and particularly its “leadership”, this is entirely believable:
John MacArthur on Oral Roberts
This is a sobering post on the legacy of Oral Roberts:
Measuring Oral Roberts’ Influence
One certainly hopes that Oral Roberts is now rejoicing with Jesus in Heaven, and there is little doubt in my mind that some very good things happened as a result of Mr. Roberts’ influence. At the same time, there is little doubt in my mind that much harm was done through his spurious Prosperity Theology teaching (I always had associated such with the Kenneths–Hagin and Copeland–as well as Benny Hinn, Smilin’ Joey, and a few others, but MacArthur points out the difference between Prosperity “Theology” and Word-Faith “theology”, and it’s clear that Mr. Roberts must assume a lot of responsibility for this awful movement). The gospel of Jesus doesn’t square with Prosperity teaching, and we must never, ever be fooled by the size of one’s ministry as an indicator of the blessing of God or of the rightness of one’s theology.
Marriage in the 21st Century?
Proof that one can take the whole Facebook thing a little too far:
Here’s hoping he didn’t Twitter the honeymoon…
Rich Daddy God: THIS is Side-Splittingly Funny
Tim Challies reports that he and friends tried to play Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now, the Board Game…you know, you just can’t make this stuff up…and after finding it hilariously unplayable, was sent another board game–and that, my friends, is what will crack you up.
By the way, in the same vein, if you’ve never been to Engrish, you owe it to yourself to go and get a laugh (warning: occasionally, the “Engrish” can be a little bit “adult” in the wording).
Al Gore Must be the Pope
Michael Crichton makes some excellent points about the idea that contemporary environmentalism isn’t about science so much as it is about religion:
Looked at through the eyes of an anthropologist, his views make real sense; environmentalism through that lens has the hallmarks of religion. Perhaps that’s why questioning of some of the predominant viewpoints on global warming, for instance, evokes not a rationed argument, but emotional explosions. Call it “environmental fundamentalism”.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
