Category: Culture

The news in this post is already way past old, but as it is tangentially concerned with the CRC and as I am ordained in the CRC I thought I would put my fork in on this item.

The following links give the skinny on the progression of the controversy between the Calvin College faculty and the Calvin College Board of Trustees (BOT).

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/08/calvin_college_has_had_to_conf.html

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/08/calvin_college_professors_call.html

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/10/calvin_college_agrees_to_furth.html

The short version is that the Calvin BOT sent out a letter to the faculty impressing upon them that they were not to teach anything that could be construed as gay advocacy. One can only presume that the BOT sent out such a letter because they had reason to believe that such a letter was necessary. Upon receipt of the letter the faculty took exception to what they believed was a heavy handed draconian squelching of their academic freedom. As such the official faculty organization squealed loudly under such oppression. As a result the BOT, while not rescinding their original dicta, did agree to examine how CRC church teachings relate to academic freedom.

Just a few observations,

1.) Three Cheers for the BOT for doing the right thing.

2.) The cry for Academic freedom is a smoke screen. Would the faculty senate have squealed about Academic freedom if the BOT had sent a memo to the faculty impressing upon them that they were not to teach anything that could be construed as polygamy advocacy? Necrophilia advocacy? Bestiality advocacy? The squealing sound one hears from the faculty is indicative that the letter hit its mark. No doubt certain faculty members were pushing gay advocacy. So, this has very little to do with academic freedom and a great deal to do with code pink making inroads at Calvin.

3.) The gay advocacy thing is not limited to Calvin College in the CRC. CRC publications like “The Banner” is forever subtly engaging in gay advocacy. Maybe someone ought to send a letter to them.

4.) This is the way that change always happens in a denomination. Whatever change that is desired to be pursued is first brought up in some official format. That official format is then officially censored. After being censored people who are sympathetic to those who first brought it up start screaming that, “We need to have a conversation about this.” The ensuing conversation then becomes the thin wedge that is used to eventually pry the desired change into place. This sometimes takes years to happen. In my estimation elements within the CRC, having established Women in office, are now on the next campaign to legitimize “Christian” homosexuality.

5.) In my estimation, were the BOT really serious about this they would summarily fire any faculty member who, privately or publicly, was engaged in gay advocacy. Shoot, being fired for such a reason would be a badge of honor in the current academic climate and would assure the fired person of another job within days.

6.)Former Calvin academic and well known historian George Marsden felt he had to weigh into the Calvin imbroglio cautioning “against making lists of positions faculty may not advocate. Militarism and abortion could also be considered confessional issues.” Marsden went on to say,

“There are too many possible issues. You’re stirring up controversy you don’t have to have.”

People need to realize that all because Marsden speaks the world need not listen. Marsden has been significantly wrong at times in his academic career (see Gary North’s Political Polytheism) and there is no reason to think that he is not wrong once again.

I would note though that abortion certainly is a confessional issue. Would Dr. Marsden contend that it is acceptable for faculty members to be abortion advocates?

7.) In a cautionary word to parents who care what I think, I would strongly advise against sending your children to Calvin college. First, their economics department, philosophy department, and their sciences are all messed over, shot through with non Christian presuppositions. Second, the campus life leaves much to be desired. If you’re going to send your children to Calvin you might as well spend that money by sending them to a top flight “secular” school.

The issue of homosexuality and the CRC is one that I suspect we will be seeing more of in years to come in the CRC.

Let me get this straight … A President with a Muslim name, who bowed to the Muslim Sheik of Saudi Arabia, is on the record as saying, regarding this Ft. Hood shooting, “I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” but on the Cambridge break-in the President who has consistently vilified white people could instantly say without a shred of evidence, “It’s fair to say that the Cambridge police acted stupidly.”

These two quotes speak volumes. The first quote fits into the multicultural politically correct narrative that pagan America is telling. The second quote fits into the oppressive white people narrative that reparations America is telling.

“Shhh…. Don’t Mention That He Is A Arab Muslim”

The guy who shot up Fort Hood yesterday is a Arab and is a member of the Islamic faith — a well known “religion of peace.” However, please note that even though we’ve now been told that he was shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great”), there still hasn’t been anybody questioning the wisdom of allowing Muslims into the US military or even into US society. If one wonders about the brutality of a Islamified Western culture I encourage them to go take a walk into certain sections of London or Paris. Ask Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh about Islamic brutality in the West. Ask Salmon Rushdie about Islamic brutality in the West. Ask Aasiya Hassan of the Buffalo New York area about Islamic brutality in the West.

Because of the West’s mad desire for ethnocide, seen in its embrace of multiculturalism, Europe will be an Islamic continent by the end of this century. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the “religion of peace” shooter at Fort Hood, is a warning to America and that warning is, “Muslims will not fit into Western culture.” Now, this is obvious to anybody who has half a stroke impaired brain in their head but the multiculturalist leftists are so bound and determined to sanitize the Christian influence of the West and of America that they will go to any lengths, including blinding themselves about the nature of Islam, in order to completely and irreversibly de-Christianize the West. Actually, if such a thing as poetic justice existed both the Maj. Nidal Malik Hasans of the West and the John Kerry’s of the West would be given Arizona and be told to “be fruitful and multiply, if you can.” The leftists and the Muslims certainly deserve one another.

For those not in the know, “Allauh Akbar” is what members of the “religion of peace” often shout just before they blow themselves up, along with a host of their enemies. It is what the members of the “religion of peace” shout when they read the Koran as it tells them to kill the infidel. It is what they say after eating their after dinner mints.

There might be another explanation for why Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan slipped his noodle. It seems the poor man got a double whammy for life. Not only was he a Muslim (his first life whammy) but he also was a shrink by trade. Personally, if I had to guess between a Muslim and a Shrink as to who was more demented I would be hard pressed to reach a conclusion. I can’t imagine any living soul combining those two dementia’s into one living being.

“Well, You Are Forced To Have Car Insurance Aren’t You?”

Back in his State of the Union Address President Obama gave us an analogy between the prospects of a mandated by the Federal Government health care and a mandated by the State auto insurance.

“Unless everybody does their part, many of the insurance reforms we seek, especially requiring insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions, just can’t be achieved, That’s why under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance — just as most states require you to carry auto insurance.”

Just recently the Senator who filled Obama’s Senate seat said in response to a question,

CNSNews.com: “So, in general, if a person doesn’t want health insurance, do you think they should be required by the government to actually have to get it?”

Senator Burris: “Under state law, we have every one required to have automobile insurance. Now, think about that. And so under this here, we’re providing in the legislation where every one would be able to acquire health insurance. If they don’t get it, then that would–certainly they’re trying to provide some type of a provision for them in case they’re sick so that they will be covered and they won’t be a burden on the system. So, that’s the same thing proportionally to automobile insurance. I mean, it’s comparable.”

Now, pushing this analogy between required auto insurance and required health insurance is only one of a host of reasons why I think these people shouldn’t be leading a live in facility for the mentally challenged let alone leading this country. People like Obama and Burris put the capital “S” in STUPID.

The analogy doesn’t work,

1.) It is not true that every one has to have auto insurance. Only people who have the privilege of owning and driving automobiles have to have auto insurance.

2.) Therefore for the Obama/Burris analogy to fit, the reasoning must be that only people who have the privilege of owning and moving around in their bodies have to have health insurance. Do they really want to make a comparison between the mandate to have auto insurance if you drive a car and the mandate to have health insurance if you breathe? Is the state really saying that, “just as we won’t allow you to drive a car around if you will not get auto insurance, so we will not allow you to live if you will not get health insurance?” Or similarly, “just as if we catch you driving a car without auto insurance we will severely penalize you by taking away your privilege to drive, so if we catch you walking around without life insurance we will severely penalize you by taking away your privilege to be alive?”

I don’t care what Ivy League school these people were “educated” in, they are all as dumb or dumber than a box of Barbara Boxers.

A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course, Of Course …

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_horse_molester

This guy is serving jail time for getting to cozy with a horse on more than one occasion. The article says the perp is being jailed for “abuse to the creature.” So, what passes for abuse to a horse is not abuse in the slightest when the same “coziness” is pursued by two men.

But perhaps the difference is, is that two men can give consent to their mutual abuse while poor Sugar (the name of the horse that is being assaulted) can’t give consent, even though she is 21 years old.

I’m not sure, given the legal logic that is used today, why this guy is being jailed. He didn’t hurt anyone. It’s just people’s opinion that his sexual preference is aberrant, and besides, where are all the calls for the compassion and understanding we must have for this man?

We have affirmed constantly that cult drives culture. However, it seems that there are those who are taking that affirmation a bridge to far by suggesting that the Christian church as cult is responsible for our woeful culture. Actually, that is only marginally true.

In this reasoning there is a failure to understand that cult drives the culture even when the cult driving the culture is not the Christian cult. Today, in our culture the cult that is driving it is not so much the Christian church as it is the Humanist Church we find especially located in the Government schools. The Government schools are the cult that is driving our culture. Now, inasmuch as the Christian church doesn’t stand up and resist that humanist cult it is responsible for the the pagan cult and culture. And the Christian Church is responsible for our post-Christian culture in the sense that it is taking its clues for Worship from the Humanist cult and its culture. However, the Christian cult (The church)is not responsible in the sense that it is the originating cult for the culture that we currently swim in.

Cult and culture go together and when the Church is not being the Church in a culture then we must look for the animating cult elsewhere.

At about the 1:30 portion of this video-tape you will find a responsive reading begun. Soon thereafter you will hear the congregation repeating regularly,

“Deliver us Obama … Hear our prayer Obama

How many of these types of video-tapes need to show up before we realize that there are large numbers of people who see Obama as the Great Leader?