Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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What is telling is that the majority of morons that make up this nation are too stupid to even notice the contradiction. Politicians in this nation are wholly dependent on the stupidity of their constituents. Would that they would be disappointed if only on occasion. But alas the idiots are like locusts in the Egyptian plague.
An illiterate people will always be ruled by Tyrants.
Which is reason 3454504657978903812340895 on why I hate government schools.
And as is typical of the current state of our nation… a female/mother was needed to take out the shooter. Anyone remember who took out the shooter at New Life Church in Colorado?
DLR,
That fact didn’t evade me. I also noticed how the media is playing up that angle big time while give short shrift to the fact that we just has a terrorist attack by a Muslim American.
So does Hasan qualify as a “home grown terrorist”?
dlr,
Don’t know yet. If he recovers they will find out.
I just read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting
Yahoo has always seemed to be liberal to me so I was surprised to see this article published by them
Jerry,
I’m beginning to think if the whole story gets out on this there is going to be hell to pay.
FYI
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fort-hood-shooter-contact-al-qaeda-terrorists-officials/story?id=9030873
Officials: U.S. Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda
DLR,
It is way past clear already that this guy is a Islamic Terrorist. Further, I would wager millions of dollars that the only reason he was a major in the US Army is because of political correctness affirmative action.
The question is, didn’t Uncle Sam’s going “to fight them over there” contribute to Maj. Hasan’s wanting to “fight them over here”. And what about the fact that Uncle Sam wouldn’t allow even his soldiers to be able to defend themselves?
Hello Alex,
It certainly contributed to it though Muslims don’t need any incentive to kill the infidel.
The soldiers not being able to defend themselves is due to a policy from the Carter era.
Bret,
Maybe epistemologically self-conscious Muslims don’t. But is every self-professed Muslim such? Did Hasan’s parents come to the US to raise a ter’rist? And why you don’t have Muslims running rampant in the streets killing infidels, if they don’t need any incentives?
I realize you are hurting for your compatriots who died there and their families, but maybe you should demand that Uncle Sam’s butt gets out of overseas wars before you demand that Muslims are kicked out of Christian America.
If I misread your position, I hope you will forgive me, my friend 🙂
No, not every self-professed Muslim is epistemologically self conscious … and as such they are not all crazed murderers, but as there are a billion Muslims it only takes 1 percent to create havoc.
I don’t know the answer to your second question.
Question 3 is the epistemologically self conscious issue that you noted.
On your second paragraph … I don’t know how long you’ve been reading here but there was NO ONE who was more adamantly opposed to our entrance into the Iraq war than myself.
However, having broke it, we have bought it and just can’t drop and leave without making the situation worst than we made it by entering in. Having said that, I’m all for getting out of there just as fast as can be expediently done so. I am not, in any sense, an internationalist — especially given that the current American internationalism is Globalist.
Second, I never ever said that America was Christian.
Third, I still think that it is a mistake of MONUMENTAL proportions to allow Islam to root itself in America.
Thanks for visiting. I hope Russia can figure out its own Chechen Muslim problem.
I’ve been reading long enough (or far back enough) to know about your opposition to Iraq war. Was actually going to say that, but somehow it didn’t make it into the final post.
As to Russia’s ability to solve the Chechen problem, I don’t think Putin’s fascist government can solve it. For over a hundred of years it’s been more of the same: death, injury, rape and damage. And today Russia is behaving exactly according to “we broke it, we bought it” principle – emphasis on “bought”. So the approach is to “waste them in toilets”.
I am not living in Russia by the way – I’m in Latvia. Thanks for providing reasons to visit!
P.S. Is there a good place to read up on Carter’s policy that you referred to earlier?
I guess I’m a typical American. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia were under Russian dominance so long I just lump them together. I know all of them are distinct peoples and so it is boneheaded to lump them together.
I’ll try to get back to you on your Carter question.
Thanks Alex,