In August I decided to start a separate site for my political thoughts.  That’s over. It’s just too taxing to maintain two sites…particularly when no one is reading the second one.

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I was listening to Mark Levin last night, and he was driving me crazy.  He kept playing these clips of Obama as though they were clear reasons why we shouldn’t vote for him, but as I listened, they were the exact opposite.  There were a couple of things about the courts and about “redistributive change” and how to achieve it (O has little hope that we can get the change through the courts, acknowledging that “the institution wasn’t designed that way”, but expressed hope in a legislative pursuit), but for the most part, it was a long commercial for him.

He talked about responsibility for each other. He talked about leaving college with the choice of pursuing a big house and a lot of money and titles and such, or pusuing a greater good - “hitch your wagon to something greater than yourself”.  The clips were pretty moving.  The real problem, the think Levin was thinking but didn’t say out loud, is that Obama isn’t encouraging us each to make a particular decision.  He’s actually trying to get enough votes to force everyone to choose a particular path.  For all of his talk about sacrifice, he’s not talking about giving of ourselves, but about taking from others. (continue reading…)

Yesterday Doug LeBlanc at GR commented on two profiles of author Marilynne Robinson. One quote that caught my eye was this:

“The liberal criticism, rejection of the idea that one could be securely persuaded of one’s own salvation and could even apply a fairly objective standard to the state of others’ souls, was in fact a return to Calvinism and its insistence on the utter freedom of God. That is to say, it was a rejection on theological grounds of a novel doctrine. So here has opened the great divide in American Protestant Christianity. I fall on the liberal side of this division.”

It’s an interesting thought, one I’ve heard echoed recently from none other than my favorite Calvinist, Matt Chandler.  Matt’s approach is that we can experience spiritual things, but not be saved. Logically we could see spiritual things in others, though they aren’t saved.

Then I ran across something today that gave me an entirely different perspective.

Texas executes rapist, killer of 7-year-old girl

A former plumbing supply salesman was executed Tuesday for strangling and raping a 7-year-old girl whose body he hid in his attic. [...]

Nenno said nothing could excuse his crime and that he was prepared to die.

“My salvation is secure,” he told The Associated Press. “I know where I’m going when this is all over.”

Asked where that would be, he replied: “Heaven.”

At first I harrumphed and flicked to another page.  What kind of delusional fool would think this guy is going to heaven? But Paul just stared me down.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Well, we’re getting ready to move to Dallas! I started my job as (Lead)Web Designer at Dallas Theological Seminary last Monday, and it’s pretty great.  I’ll get to start my classes toward a Th.M. in the summer.  I’m pretty excited!

I don’t have anything important to write about tonight, so I’ll leave it at that.  I’m sure I’ll have plenty popping up in the near future.

Barack Obama last year said to Planned Parenthood that the first thing he’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. Justin Taylor has a great analysis here.

I think it’s interesting that Sen. Obama and most of his supporters are so strongly behind this freedom of choice, but are at the same time completely against school choice.

It is a right - on par with free speech, assembly, equal protection, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -for any woman to seek and receive an abortion for any reason. But it isn’t a right for a parent to send their children to better schools when they are enrolled in failing ones.

It is a right for a sixteen-year-old girl to seek an abortion against the wishes of her parents, and the father.  But it isn’t a right for that same girl to seek a spot at the high school around the block that offers AP classes when hers doesn’t.

It’s an unfair burden on the “mother” to require lifesaving treatment for the baby she attempted to abort, but it’s not an unfair burden to force poor children to go to failing schools and continue the cycle of poverty in their families and communities.

This is a joke, right?

Is anyone else getting tired of how often Obama has to distance himself from some past associate while pretending that he didn’t really know them?

Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, now ACORN… How many times will the press let him off?  Have they even tried to look into any of this?

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