Posted on Wednesday, 7/16/08 (197) by eric b
Human beings do not live forever, Reuven. We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So, it may be asked what value is there to human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to [...]
Filed under: politics, religion | Tagged: chaim potok, darfur, genocide, the chosen, the holocaust | 1 Comment »
Posted on Friday, 7/11/08 (192) by eric b
It seems that over the past week, there have been a lot of Jesees in the news. First of all, there is news that Jesee Ventura may run against Al Franken and Norm Coleman for the Senate seat in Minnesota. Franken v Coleman should be, ummmm, entertaining, if nothing else.
But, it’s the other 2 Jesses [...]
Filed under: election, politics | Tagged: barack obama, jesee helms, jesee jackson | 4 Comments »
Posted on Wednesday, 4/16/08 (106) by eric b
I have a lot I want to write about, but it’s a busy day, so instead, I give you this post from October 9, 2006.
______________________________________________________________________
I feel like writing again. Hoperfully, the feeling will stick for a while.
Anyway, I’m walking through Clifton during the early afternoon hours, and I notice a car that has the license [...]
Filed under: politics, pop culture | Tagged: bumper stickers, george w bush, gryffindors, harry potter, hippies, muggles, slytherins, voldemort | 1 Comment »
Posted on Tuesday, 4/15/08 (105) by eric b
I’ve picked on the Family Research Council a bit on this space. Before I get back to criticizing them, I want to say that they aren’t always bad. On many of the “alerts” that they continue to send me, I find myself nodding in agreement more often than I expected when they first started appearing [...]
Filed under: politics, religion | Tagged: Family Research Council, focus on the family, Tony Perkins | 2 Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 3/13/08 (72) by eric b
So, I finally received a reply to my concerns that I sent to the FRC last week. Little of it involved any clarification to my concerns. Basically, they sent four “points.” The first basically said this would bring us closer to “government controlled health care” (ie socialized medicine). Secondly, this would “bring up the price [...]
Filed under: ministry, politics | Tagged: abortion, Family Research Council, health care, mental health parity, politics, Tony Perkins | 2 Comments »
Posted on Thursday, 3/6/08 (65) by eric b
I’m not a big fan of most of the right-wing Christian political activist groups, such as Focus on the Family or Family Research Council (to be fair, I’m not so keen on some of the left-wing groups like Sojourner’s, but that’s another post alltogether). I saw on slacktivist (see link to the right) the other [...]
Filed under: ministry, politics | 3 Comments »
Posted on Friday, 2/29/08 (59) by eric b
So, I remember back in the 80’s, acid rain was all the rage. I remember learning all about it in school. I even remember a very special “Diffr’nt Strokes” (there were a lot of those) telling us about the horrors of acid rain (Kimberly washed her hair using rain water and the acid rain turned [...]
Filed under: ministry, politics | 2 Comments »