General comment: don’t reduce ‘political’ to ‘civil government’, for confusion ensues. For example, Aristotle defines politics as the study of the chief good for humans. Thus, the answer to WSC 1 is a political claim (among other things).

Alright, Jason, I’ll accept that I misunderstood you, but when you infer that I “*might* be putting too much trust in humanity’s ability to know it all,” that sounds like Jeff Foxworthy saying you might be a redneck if you think possum is the other white meat. IOW, Foxworthy is saying you probably *are* a [...]

I am frankly stunned by the degree of epistemological woolliness expressed by our esteemed stool-warmers Mark N and Matthew! Perhaps the watchbloggers were right all along…? Now, I am totally with John, Mack, et al about the lack of nuance in the questions. To be fair to the pollster, however, it does qualify the language [...]

Every best wish, Brian. Nearly 1/3 of Texans believe that humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time. Yabba-dabba-doo! Curious how BHT patrons and lurkers compare? Yeah, I thought so…

But ID is about science. Really.

I’ve told a story or two in here before, and the response from the good guys has been: “never seen that, whatehv.” So I’ve just accepted that I live in some other galaxy from other Christians. No, I’m not PCA. Yes, I’ve managed to find a place not yet assimilated by the PBC. Oh, and [...]

I said that I *experience* it as a different religion; I didn’t say it *was* a different religion. I’m fully willing to admit that the problem may very well be with me. If your church practices truebiblicalchristcenteredauthenticspiritfilledfaithful worship and it causes me to leave, then the problem is with me, not you. I think, however, [...]

I think you and FT are in danger of exalting a circumstance of worship, i.e. what instruments are playing, over Biblical substance. That’s because you haven’t understood what he has been saying. If you don’t understand *why* he said that he’d rather sit though a Novus Ordo Mass than a Lutheran contemporary service, then you’ve [...]

Softball

How come neither one of us would last long in the other’s ideal worship service culture? Although there’s no such thing as an ideal…whatever, I think I can answer your question based on my experience with actual, particular…whatever. 1. Because what you value in a liturgical tradition is incompatible with what I value in it. [...]

One of the things that really bothers me is when I see churches, all over the world, singing the same hymns we sing translated in their language in services. I’m thankful the C1-11 five historic Patriarchal centers, C16-17 Germans and many others didn’t have such scruples. Part of the problem is that they simply pasted [...]