Ripped from my comment at Joe’s Evangelical Outpost, and slightly revised.

They will realize what we’re saying, eventually, and quit reciting the media mantra of “ESC promises great results” like mouldering zombies. One day. That would involve them realizing that there is, actually, no evidence whatsoever for ESC promise, and every evidence for adult cell promise.

It would also require a mindset which ceases to disregard life.

I find it absolutely apalling that there is a group of Americans who will make any excuse, and take any road which involves the destruction of human life – just to be able to say “I have that right to choose” ( their death). Not their right to choose life – that is the road of ASC, or abortion alternative counseling – or even adoption proponents! Instead, they consciously, staggeringly, and even viciously end the life of another human being – just because they can then say they chose it.

Pro-Choice. Yeah. I’m Pro-Choice too. Except my choice is for life. I get to choose too, you know. That’s fine, though. Call yourself “Pro-Choice” – we know better. It’s not about our choices, though. It’s about theirs – the ones the “Pro-Choice” movement never offers a choice to at all.

It’s easier to talk about as a “fetus”, or a “blob of protoplasm” – or even “research with such great promise” (true or not). Never mind THEIR choices. Just pack em into the freight cars. We know what it is you’re doing. We aren’t quiet about it, though. Is that why you’re so hot to drag us away from in front of the abortion clinics? We’re actually refering to the “Solution of Choice” sans euphemisms? In public?

That just won’t do, will it? Then people would know about the freight cars and the suction hoses used to rip babies into pieces, and the saline solution used to burn them to death. They would know that you were creating babies solely to kill them, for some ephemeral chance for “a cure” with no history of success. They would know that for every baby that is successfully brought to term with IVF, that the others are simply discarded like garbage.

That’s the problem. We’re using non-euphemisms, and speaking about the “Solution of Choice” before the country is fully “sanitized” of all these “religious fanatics”- we are not following the herd. The herd curiously referred to as “Pro-Choice”. The levels of irony involved in this whole set of issues… especially from the side that calls itself “Pro-Choice” – and gives the victim of that choice no choice at all… staggering. No wonder there’s the huge media push to silence the “religious extremists” these days. We don’t speak of the “Choice Solution” in it’s “pretty” little euphemisms. We call it what it is. Murder.

That, my friends, is what they can’t stand. Any more than that grain of truth to make the lie sound believable, and they get uncomfortable. They don’t want to know – and they’re mad at us for dragging it all out into the light of day, instead of the comfortable euphemistic corner they’d buried it in.

My heart bleeds for their comfort zone – really.

P.S. – Tried a trackback to Joe’s post – got errors. I’ll check back later.

Mostly because I’m really cool…

I made everyone on the Aggregator (that didn’t have one) an 80×15 button for their blog.

You can see them all on the right.

Cool, huh?

So, feel free to use them. If you don’t have your own webspace, feel free to link my hosting of them. If you do, please host them yourself for use on your own blog.

Q and A with RK: 6/8

Culled from two im conversations:

HydroPhoboe: what about this example..
HydroPhoboe: Could God eat an infinitely long hot dog?
RazorsKiss: Nothing but God is infinite, in my opinion.
RazorsKiss: How could anything but God be equal to God?
RazorsKiss: Is a hot dog equal to God? 😀
HydroPhoboe: Lol
HydroPhoboe: no
RazorsKiss: So, if God is infinite, how can anything else be, and not be equal to God in that respect?
RazorsKiss: it’s a logical contradiction, in my humble opinion – for a Christian, at least
RazorsKiss: I think that was profound
RazorsKiss: but it may not have been
RazorsKiss: it’s hard to tell with hot dogs
RazorsKiss: if it was polish sausage, we wouldn’t even be discussing it!

End first conversation… but I can’t help thinking about that one.

So, I quote it to Bethany, and continue my train of thought.

RazorsKiss: I crack me up.
Bethany: lol
Bethany: okay…that is…um…weird?
RazorsKiss: but.. funny
Bethany: yeah. funny.
Bethany: but weird….
RazorsKiss: see if this makes sense to you
RazorsKiss: I had to think about it for a minute
RazorsKiss: the very concept of an infinite *thing* is impossible, in my opinion
RazorsKiss: because the very concept of “thing” implies limits, or measure
RazorsKiss: infinity is a concept which flatly denies measure, or limit
RazorsKiss: follow me?
RazorsKiss: So, it would be an inherent contradiction, both logically, and conceptually
RazorsKiss: Or am I off-base?
Bethany: yes…I follow and I agree.
RazorsKiss: Ok, so the “could God make a rock large enough He couldn’t lift it” is an inherently illogical statement – because limit is implied in the statement “rock”, and “heavy”
Bethany: I think so.
RazorsKiss: a rock is inherently limited by the fact that it is a thing – a rock
Bethany: and is not infinite…
RazorsKiss: it is inherently limited by weight – which is a measure
RazorsKiss: it can neither be a rock, nor heavy, to be infinite – to be infinite is reserved for God, therefore it can neither be too heavy to lift, or a rock, to be infinite – and the only thing impossible is something equal to or greater than God
RazorsKiss: so… the statement is inherently illogical, and conceptually impossible
RazorsKiss: w00t. I’ll be a philosopher yet…
RazorsKiss: unless I’m wrong.
Bethany: lol!
Bethany: indeed…you shall.
RazorsKiss: that is SO going to my blog.

My brain hurts – but that was fun.

I know, I’m flying in the face of mathematics – but really – who has measured infinity?

I still say the only thing infinite is God – period.

The Daily Cut – 5/30

Funny searches landing here:

COUNTERING BIBLICAL APOLOGISTS

(I suppose they thought shouting it would make it more likely?)

full paraphrase for Prufrock

Led them to this post… why? Heck if I know.

Joe Carter Apologetic

haha. Joe’s got his own apologetic! Leads to This post. Heh.

Anyway – something to post…

Other…

Lots of cool blogs added to my blogroll – and I’ve done a lot of additions/changes, etc lately. Hope you enjoy them. We’re now working on Bethany’s house (soon to be mine as well.. yay!), so I haven’t had a lot of time recently. Sorry.

Oh – and Vox XX is up.

The Ten Commandments?

Very strawman(nish) – but this is the reason I no longer post on politics.

The unfortunate merge of Christianity with politics, instead of the other way around, comes out looking like this. I don’t like it – so check it out.

The Ten Commandments
of Evangelical Co-Belligerence
by Steve Camp

  1. Thou shalt keep all family values/moral causes continually before you
  2. Thou shalt not let the Word of God, doctrine, theology, truth, or
    the gospel of Jesus Christ keep you from “standing together” with
    anyone to reach our goal of impacting our culture by returning it back
    to moral traditional family values through legislation, judicial
    process, and co-belligerent partnerships
  3. Thou shalt remember the Sabbath Day and keep it political; rename
    it by changing it from the Lord’s Day to “Justice Sunday” (substitute
    worship services with political rallies and make sure you feature
    non-Christians for a wide tolerant religious ideological appeal)
  4. Thou shalt not take the name of family value/moral causes in vain;
    but use every social cultural political co-belligerent means necessary
    to strong arm politicians to win the day
  5. Thou shalt honor thy senator and thy congressman as long as they
    stand for what we tell them to stand for (this is the first commandment
    with a vote)
  6. Thou shalt boycott, protest and petition against all who act
    immorally and who try to filibuster judicial Presidential appointees
  7. Thou shalt fault, criticize and belittle unsaved people for living
    like unsaved people given every opportunity possible. It’s OK for them
    to remain unsaved people, but they just can’t live like they’re too
    unsaved. (They can be unsaved, but just can’t be gay; they can be
    unsaved, but just can’t be pro-choice; they can be unsaved, but just
    can’t believe in euthanasia; they can even remain unsaved, but must be
    for a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage)
  8. Thou shalt faithfully turn the body of Christ into The Pope’s
    Political Action Committee (TPPAC): The Lord’s Lobbyists; Value Voters,
    Patriot Pastors; the Largest Special Interest Group in America; and
    most importantly, Christocrats.
  9. Thou shalt not do anything to shrink the mailing list of any
    Para-church ministry for three things are always necessary for success:
    donations, donations, donations.
  10. Thou shalt always remember to keep your primary focus on the family and not on the faith

(HT: Reasons Why, originally from Audience One)

The Trilemma: Use as Directed

As I have said in previous Vox Apologias with this common theme – “useful, or useless” – all apologetics are merely tools. Every defense has an object, a particular use, and an audience best suited for it. I have also said that I disagree with the “you must only use a certain type” of apologetics approach. Be it presuppositional, evidential, or what have you. This is much the same way. It is a tool. As with most tools, it has a specific purpose, and will be quite useless if you attempt to use it for something other than it’s specific purpose.

My thesis: The Trilemma has a particular audience, and a particular application. If these two conditions are not suitable, the Trilemma will not be effective, or it’s effect will be severely limited.

No apologetic is a substitute for study, effort, and prayerful consideration. The Trilemma is no exception. This apologetic has a very specific purpose, and is an answer to a very specific assertion: That Jesus was only a great moral teacher. The apologetic rests on one presupposition: That Jesus claimed to be God.

When using the Trilemma, you must do two things. One, consider your audience. Two, have a definite application, complementing the apologetic. They must both coincide, or you are wasting your time.

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Even more template tweakage. I like, myself.

Except for that STUPID LINK GLITCHING.

Someone, please… tell me what that is.

When a link has not been visited, a mouseover will make it spaz out. It also spazzes during page load. Someone? Anyone? I’m annoyed, and I don’t have the time to track it down :/

I know what’s doing it. I just don’t know how to fix it.

Incidentally – Funky – check out the new javascripts. You might like them, because they don’t preload as the full list. They do have the annoying feature of setting everything over to the right, though. I like it, though.

Yes, I know it looks weird in IE. Sorry. IE is… weird, though. Or I did something really strange to it. I think it has something to do with those opacity masks in the CSS. *shrug*

Anyway, I reorganized everything. Again. while I should have been sleeping. or blogging something. I’m a terrible “tweaker”, though.

Oh, I’m going to a 4Him concert tonight. Cool, huh?

I remember why…

…I read Joe’s comments section.

From btdhguy:

And praise God for your spectacular conversion story! Saved from years of going down the dark lonely road, being a blind prisoner of sin! Saved from having an art gallery in your mind filled with scenes of years of fulfillment of past passions and pleasures! Saved from years of living in malice and envy, being hated and hating others! Saved from years of being in the habit of gratifying the cravings of your sinful nature and years of following its desires and thoughts! Saved from all those years of sexual immorality, lust, and greed, and being an object of God’s wrath! What an awesome display of God’s power and mercy and grace that you did NOT have to go through ALL THAT! What an awe-inspiring tale you have of the kinds of things that surely would have happened were it not for Jesus saving you. What a great and merciful Lord Jesus Christ we have in that He often chooses to glorify Himself in what He prevents as much as He glorifies Himself in what He redeems.

Freaking awesome. Oh, and the post is great too. Joe’s too hard on himself, by the by. RLP has nothing on him as a writer.

Just to Illustrate…

…how tired I’ve been.

I get off of work at 6:30 am. I usually go to bed fairly soon. I was running for a while, but then I discovered that running allowed even less time for sleep – so I haven’t done it in a while.

I tried to blog, for some reason, this morning – I wrote a small post for Vox, and added a few people to the Aggregator, and a small post for my own blog – while reading all of those blogs I promised I would check back to, to see if they were, in fact, blogging apologetics. Some I’m still checking, some I liked – and added.

However, that put me to bed about 9:30 am. I was supposed to get up at around 1:30 pm, so I can be up, take a shower, check comments/email, etc., and meet my girlfriend for lunch a bit past 3. I don’t know if my alarm didn’t go off, or I got up, went across the room and shut it off, or what – I got up at 6:30 pm. I was supposed to be at McDonald’s at 3:30 or so, and choir starts at 7. It’s a half hour drive to church, or thereabouts – so I’m late just waking up.

Gotta love it.

So, I actually got 9 hours of sleep today. Which is the highest in 3 weeks, by about 4 hours – sans last Friday (where I actually stood my girlfriend up again, because I just didn’t hear the alarm).

Why, oh why, do I feel like sleep is something I won’t discover again until I’m married and settled down, and in a 9-5 job? I’d almost forgotten what it felt like to sleep 8 hours. It feels just like 5 hours – except you are more refreshed, and it takes longer. Which is often diastrous. (The latter, not the former.)

*sigh*

All because I did something *else* I said I was going to do…

The Daily Cut – 5/11

I DO have a reason for most of the blogs on my blogroll.

For instance: “This is not for you…

Once you check out this post – take a look through some of Matthew’s other stuff. He is a phenomenal writer.

Maybe this is a dumb question – but first, why is noone submitting anything to Vox? Second, why is noone visiting? Third, why don’t you email me to become a contributor? Fourth, how the heck do I fix the comments on Vox? I broke them, somehow…

It’s annoying me.

Basically, I want a few people to spend 5 minutes a day, and link to a few apologetics posts or articles apiece. That’s at least content. I’m having a severely hard time keeping up with it, and it seems like the existing contributors are pretty much up to their eyeballs themselves.

So, if you are listed in my apologetics section (see top right of my massive blogroll), or think you should be – and would like to help – talk to me, please. That’s one thing I CAN do faithfully, regardless of how limited my time is – answer email.

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