Faith & Religion

For my appetizer, a short-haired Tabby…

In its never-ending campaign to eliminate discrimination and classism in the animal kingdom, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has launched a campaign to rename `fish` to something more lovable… their preference is `sea kittens`:

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Thomas Sowell :: Do Facts Matter?

Facts, sadly, do not matter to liberals. Liberals are driven by emotion; by the baser aspects of human nature. For liberals, it isn’t so much about what is right but what makes them feel better about themselves, or less guilty.

Facts not only do not matter to liberals, but they willfully reject them. Knowledge often requires action. Liberals do not want to know, for example, what Obama means by “change;” for if they knew, they would be required to act contrary to their baser, sensual nature.

Knowledge of the facts not only requires action, but often obedience. And that’s the true rub for liberals. “For him who knows to do right but does it not, to him it is sin.”

[T]he country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.

Thomas Sowell :: Townhall.com :: Do Facts Matter?

Barack`s Rev `Stole a Wife`

The New York Post is reporting that Jeremiah Wright may have taken his current wife under less-than-honorable circumstances:

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner – after the man sought Wright’s help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends.

Although I am sure that it the coveting of “thy neighbor’s wife” happens on both sides of the racial divide, it is very disconcerting when your trusted teacher of black liberation theology “liberates” your own wife.

BARACK’S REV. ‘STOLE A WIFE’ – New York Post

Black Theology and Black Impotence

For many years, I have perceived the inherent contradiction and insufficiency of the arguments of black activists like Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and others. They contend that blacks are oppressed, denied opportunity, harrassed and harangued because of their skin color– the one thing that a black man or woman can never change about him or herself.

I have wondered, given the incredible progress in race relations over the past three decades, if blacks would ever be able to just “let it go” and recognize the facts. Innumerable black men and women have risen to positions of power, influence and affluence in this country and at a time when the white culture is still the dominant culture, at least in simple numbers. If one black man can succeed any black man can, despite the claims of the “activists” that it isn’t possible, simply because of color.

The recent discussions of “black liberation theology” and the “black church” that have arisen out of the relationship between Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama and his pastor of twenty-plus years, Jeremiah Wright, have reawakened my desire to understand the “black experience”– and my passion to reject intellectual dishonesty wherever it appears. And an incredible article by James Solis has expressed in much better terms how the “black liberation theology” that Rev. Wright claims to be the foundation of his ministry can never achieve liberation for its adherents.

From the Solis article:

Black Theology, as a species of Liberation Theology, purports to be the theological energy behind the Black Power movement, a movement intended to liberate blacks from their continuing oppression under whites. But, at the same time, this very theology tells its adherents (even if only tacitly) that they must always be oppressed; they can never really be liberated – not if they are to remain in relationship with their Black God.

Because the 2008 Presidential race is the talk of the day, and because it is highly likely that Barack Obama will be the Democrat nominee and have a shot at the White House, it would do us well to understand Rev. Wright, Dr. James Cone (Wright’s mentor) and the message under which Obama and his family have sat for over two decades.

Christianity and Immigration Policy

The following was my response to an article (linked below) in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal regarding Christianity and immigration policy:

A born again, spirit-filled, very conservative Christian who lives in a county (Gwinnett, GA) with one of the largest immigrant communities in the nation here with a few thoughts for you to ponder…

Regarding the fear under which Hispanics in this country live… perhaps it is evidence of a guilty conscience, which is a good thing; a spiritual thing. And what is the purpose of a guilty conscience but to motivate any man to stop sinning and do right, first in the eyes of God and then in the eyes of man?

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Amen, Mitt Romney!

The following is an excerpt from Mitt Romney’s speech today addressing the role of faith in his life. The speech kicks off at 10:30; I will publish the full text afterward.

Amen, Mitt Romney! It is too bad that a majority of our politicians do not have the same understanding of the relationship between faith and government as does he.

“There are some who may feel that religion is not a matter to be seriously considered in the context of the weighty threats that face us. If so, they are at odds with the nation’s founders, for they, when our nation faced its greatest peril, sought the blessings of the Creator. And further, they discovered the essential connection between the survival of a free land and the protection of religious freedom. In John Adam’s words: ‘We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.’

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