Casey's Critical Thinking Casey's Critical Thinking A blog and collection of essays on such topics as the existence of God, abortion, creation/evolution, Christian living and current events. Articles
A challenge to Christian pacifists
2007-05-29 05:17:00 I have been contacted by many Christian pacifists since I first wrote Christianity and Pacifism after the events of September 11, 2001. Some claim that I am going to hell, some beg me to learn how to love my enemies and others voice their concern in a reasonable manner. All of them, I presume, have ... More About: Theology , Challenge , Allen , Halle
Liberal hypocrites
2007-05-28 05:59:00 What could possibly be the point of ABC revealing “covert action” in Iran? The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject, say President Bush has signed a “nonlethal presidential finding” that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and ... More About: Politics , Liberal , Foreign Policy , Crit , Hypocrite
Young Earth vs. Old Earth Debate
2007-05-25 23:12:00 Tonight I attended a debate between Hugh Ross of Reasons to Believe and Minoru Usami of Creation Research Japan. It was called a "debate," but it was more of a presentation of views for each side to listen to the other. It was stressed that both Hugh Ross and Minoru Usami are evangelical Christians and that both Young Earth Creationists (YECs) and Old Earth Creationists (OECs) believe that the Bible is God's word. It's an important point, because we're all on the same side. We tend to let disagreements divide us, but the age of the earth/universe is irrelevant when it comes to salvation. I have never read any of Hugh Ross' books all the way through, so it was an interesting presentation. It did drive home how different one's interpretation of the Bible really is depending on whether they take Genesis literally or "literally." By "literally" in quotes, I mean that Hugh Ross claims that since the Hebrew word "yom" can mean a long pe... More About: Debate
My testimony
2007-05-25 00:03:00 No Christian website is complete without a testimony. In particular, when it comes to an apologetics website such as this one, many people probably wonder about the site owner's background. So why did it take me eight years to put one up? No idea. I just happened across an article on the subject on rationalchristianity.net today, which I had actually read before, and decided to get to it. The full article can be found here. More About: Testimony , Testim
Environmental activism is a religious experience
2007-05-16 09:47:00 Environmental activism is a religious experience. What else can explain the utter pointlessness of trying to "save" a world you believe arose by accident and is ultimately destined for destruction? The majority, or at least a very large number, of environmental activists are atheistic evolutionists who believe that life is the result of an accident that occurred billions of years ago. If life is an accident then so is the sun, and when the sun burns out a few millenia from now, all life will cease to exist. It will be as if nothing ever happened. All the environmentalists' efforts to prolong the inevitable will have been forgotten by...well, there actually won't be anyone left to remember! Apparently there really is a God-shaped hole that we all need to fill. Many people are filling this void in their lives by dedicating themselves to stopping climate change, an impossible task to accomplish on a planet that has been through several ice ages and periods of warm. At lea... More About: Environmental , Activism , Experience , Menta , Religious
Bush's Real Record On the Economy
2007-05-15 18:45:00 An editorial from Investor's Business Daily sets the record straight on Bush and the economy: Years from now, pundits and academics will surely wonder why President Bush's greatest achievement — his stewardship of the economy — got so little notice during his time in office. Yet that's how it is. Bizarrely, polls show that many people think the economy has fallen into a recession. Or that we never left the slump that began in March 2001, a bare month and a half after Bush entered office, and that ended in November of the same year. Last summer, a national poll taken by American Research Group showed 38% of Americans thought the economy was in a recession. By last month that had fallen to 28%, but it's still a big share. Of course, we weren't in a recession. Nor is it the case, as also has been asserted, that "things got worse" under Bush. What factually is true is Bush faced the greatest economic challenge of any incoming president since President Rea... More About: Economy , Real , Record , Econ , Cord
Conservative cartoons
2007-05-15 17:43:00 Some of these are really funny. Check out IBD Editorials for a good laugh. More About: Cartoons , Conservative , Cart , Cons , Toons
Democrats and the Fairness Doctrine
2007-05-15 12:50:00 Knowing that they cannot compete on the merits of their ideas, Demo crats love to try to silence the competition. Why is it that it is the Republicans that always get accused of censorship? Rush Limbaugh explains it this way: Bring it on! Pelosi and the Democrat s are resurrecting The Fairness Doctrine to shut up Rush. The left saw their liberal radio network go down in flames, but they won't accept that they cannot compete in the marketplace of ideas. No, they're going to require local radio stations to "balance" Rush's commentary, knowing it will create hassles so thick that radio stations will drop the show. "It's a pure Stalinist tactic," Rush says. "Elected officials of government are attempting to deny private citizens access to the microphone." The focus of Democrats is to make war on Rush, not Al-Qaeda. It's not just Rush, though, it's a host of conservative radio hosts. Of course, Rush is the biggest name, but there are others. Since there... More About: Ness
Bad Climate "Science"
2007-05-14 00:00:00 The subheading to Joel Schwartz's article on National Review about global warming science sums both the article and the issue up nicely: The ideology goes in before the science goes on.Assume that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth’s climate. What should we do about it? Public debate on climate change has focused almost solely on requiring large reductions in fossil-fuel energy consumption. Enter the journal Nature with a new feature article on another potential means of dealing with climate change. ...Another potential contributor is a wooly-minded romantic environmentalism that seems to have infected scientists as much as anyone else. This also comes through in Nature’s profile: Hans Feichter, a climate modeller at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, speaks for the vast majority of his colleagues when he says ‘the role of a geoscientist is to understand nature, not to change it.’ Climate scientists... More About: Science , Mate , Lima
Was There Death Before Sin?
2007-05-11 00:00:00 I have written a new article responding to Rich Deem's rebuttal of the young earth creationist argument that there was no death before the Fall on godandscience.org. If you're interested, the article is here. Here 's a short excerpt: For many years now I have enjoyed the articles on godandscience.org. At the time of this essay they are celebrating 10 years on the Internet. Although I do not agree with their position on the issue of origins, I find much of their website very helpful, and I believe there is much common ground. I'm sure I've read through their section on young earth creationism before, but I just happened to look at it in more detail today. I would like to respond to Rich Deem's rebuttal of the young earth creationist argument that there was no death before the Fall. First of all, he claims that plant death is the same as animal death. It's hard to imagine someone actually arguing this, but I suppose there is precedent for it in religions like Buddhism (som... More About: Death , There , Fore
Start calling 'em French fries again
2007-05-11 00:00:00 Maybe we've confused the French with the French media. The election of pro-America Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of France shows that the French people don't hate us as much as our media would like us to believe. Yep, it's time to start ordering "French" fries again (not that I ever called 'em "Freedom" fries). The election of Nicolas Sarkozy to the presidency of France has been a serious blow to those who claim that America has earned the undying hatred of Europeans. Oh, to be sure, the French media hates us, but there are a lot of people who say ours does too. Regardless, Sarkozy’s victory has sent shock waves through the world’s media centers. A French president who openly admires America is an embarrassment to those who view us as the country bumpkin cousins of the sophisticated Europeans. American pundits and politicians who say we should change our foreign policies to win the European popularity contest ought to be feeling a little emb... More About: Start , Again , Calling , Call
More ingratitude
2007-05-10 00:00:00 By now, everyone knows about the thwarted terror attack in New Jersey. This is yet another example of ingratitude toward American kindness. Michelle Malkin has a column on National Review today describing some of the kindness extended to Muslims by the United States and Fort Dix, in particular: Well, here is the thanks we get. Eight years ago, America opened its arms to tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. The first planeload landed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Military leaders worked day and night to turn the base into a child-friendly village. They coordinated medical and security checkups, mental-health and trauma counseling, and ethnic-food preparations. Soldiers from Fort Bragg traveled up from North Carolina to assist in refugee operations at Fort Dix. Then-U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais also assembled a team of about 80 soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve Command in Atlanta. The New Jersey National Guard and American Red Cross teamed up to coordinate... More About: More
A letter to the Global Church from the Protestant Church of Smyrna
2007-05-06 00:00:00 On April 18, 2007 several members of the "religion of peace" tortured, disemboweled and slit the throats of three Christians in Turkey. I'm a little late in writing about this, because I just learned of it recently. We prayed for the families of the martyrs at church today. The Protest ant Church of Smyrna has asked believers around the world to pray that someday at least one of the murderers will come to faith in Christ because of the testimony in death of Tilman Geske, the German missionary, and the testimonies in death of Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, the first martyrs for Christ out of the Turkish Church. I'll certainly be praying for this as well as for Muslims all over the world to wake up to the reality of what their religion is all about and that justice will be served in this and all other terrorist attacks all over the world. A Letter to the Global Church from the Protestant Church of Smyrna Turkish Believers Satanically Tortured for Hours before Being Killed
Judaism and gun control
2007-05-05 00:00:00 Much has been written on gun rights from a Christian perspective. I don't have anything to add to the discussion. I did, however, come across an interesting look at the issue from a Jewish perspective. More About: Judaism , Gun Control , Control
America, Saving Muslim Women's Lives
2007-05-04 00:00:00 The US media loves to report alleged abuses by America n soldiers, but Fred Thompson provides a list of several honorable deeds performed by the US military on behalf of Muslim s in an article on NRO. More About: Lives , Slim , Saving
Palestinian leader: 'Kill every American and Jew'
2007-05-04 00:00:00 Why are we providing aid to these people? More About: American , Ever , Pale , Kill , Lead
Walking Her Home
2007-05-03 00:00:00 Just thought I'd introduce a nice song I heard on net radio. It's a song called "Walk ing Her Home " by Mark Schultz. More About: King
The day the music dies
2007-05-01 00:00:00 The day the music dies is May 15, 2007 unless internet radio listeners get their act in gear and contact their representatives. More About: Music , The Music , The D , Dies
Reagan's men backing Thompson
2007-05-01 00:00:00 Ronald Reagan 's closest allies are throwing their weight behind the White House bid by the late president's fellow actor, Fred Thom pson . More About: King , Backing
Impossible even for God?
2007-04-30 00:00:00 One of the difficult questions to answer is "Why couldn't God have created humans with free will that would not choose to sin?" I've been pondering this question recently. More About: Impossible , Ossi
RSS feed complete
2007-04-27 00:00:00 Well, after several months, I decided to add an RSS feed to create a more official blog. It took me several days to figure out how to do it. I had to code the file myself. More About: Feed , Complete
Gun control is not the answer
2007-04-19 00:00:00 I'm not one of those "out of my cold dead hands" gun rights activists. In fact, I hate guns. Never owned one and never fired one (unless you count BB guns). More About: Answer , Gun Control , Control , The A
Save Net Radio!!
2007-04-18 00:00:00 On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio's royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future. More About: Radio , Save , Adio
Who has the neurological disorder?
2007-04-16 00:00:00 Bill Maher trespasses on private property because he considers himself to be better than others. More About: Order , Logic , Logical , Diso , Logi
VDH 's dream
2007-04-14 00:00:00 Victor David Hanson says he had a dream that the British sailors that were captured by Iran fought back. It's a nice essay about how the world should be. More About: Dream
Hostages released on Iranian terms
2007-04-08 00:00:00 The 15 British hostages were released on Iranian terms. That is very bad for world peace. More About: Terms , Released , Release , Host , Stage
Pelosi is a disgrace
2007-04-07 00:00:00 Why do people continue to vote for misfits like Pelosi ? I will never understand how some people can look the other way when members of the US Congress engage in treasonous behavior. More About: Elos , Disgrace
Heading for war with Iran?
2007-03-31 00:00:00 Some Brits get it: "If we are going to continue to try to be a player in the Middle East, then we have to throw in our lot with the Americans, for no-one else makes the blindest bit of difference there." More About: Iran , Head , Heading
Great Global Warming Swindle
2007-03-30 00:00:00 “None of the major climate changes of the last thousand years can be explained by CO2...Climate variation in the past was clearly natural. So why do we think it’s any different today?” More About: Global Warming , Great , Global , Swindle , Ming
Islamists posing as Americans
More articles from this author:2007-03-27 00:00:00 Islamic terrorists are engaged in a "media jihad" in which they encourage jihadists to pose online as Americans to foster anti-war sentiment in the U.S. More About: Islamists , Sing , Mist , Slam 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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