The Bible has been loudly and publicly criticized for centuries now. At the same time, it’s most vocal defenders have been those who demand that it be treated as a mandatory oracle. As a result, the public has been given a binary choice:
Either the Bible is horrible, or else it’s divine and you’ll go to hell if you don’t think so.
I think that’s a false choice, but it’s the one most people see. Continue reading “Good Things in the Bible”
A few people remember President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, where he warned Americans about the rise of a military-industrial complex… a warning that was stunningly accurate and almost fully ignored.
What almost no one remembers was Eisenhower’s speech in 1953, when he said that under the pressures of fear and war spending, humanity was “hanging from a cross of iron.” Continue reading “Humanity Crucified on a Cross of Iron”
Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing them. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: Continue reading “Why Does the Law Not Warn?”
Most people fail to appreciate the fresh opportunity that each day brings them. Their programming requires them to snort derisively at any positive description of humanity. After all, the systems of this world are built upon the assumption that mankind is weak, stupid, and generally inadequate to a moral existence. As a result, most people have become addicted to bad news. Continue reading “Just For One Day”
