Archive for June 2012
Think About IT: Gentle like Our High Priest
The writer of Hebrews says that one of the qualifications of a high priest is that he had to be gentle toward those whom he served; “he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness.” (Hebrews 5:2)
Read MoreThink About IT: Pastor’s Complicity with Science’s Debasement of MAN
The Primates House was the main attraction at the famous Bronx Zoological Gardens in 1906. But what brought amazed smiles from curious adults and squeals of joy from happy children was no ape–it was a human being named Ota Benga. (For the sources from which this biographical sketch is drawn, see Phillips Verner Bradford and…
Read MoreThink About IT: Theology Is the Essential in Politics
You know the refrain; do not mix religion and politics. Au contraire, I say mix Christianity and politics, lest the politically perceptive be seen as wizards of what ought to be, and the only ones who can make it so. Christianity informs us how things are to be. For example, why work is important, why…
Read MoreThink About IT: Altering Hippocrates Leads to Government Health Care
The Hippocratic Oath has gone through many revisions in the quest for the western world to be able to justify abortions, infanticide, and euthanasia. However, like other things, once one starts to unravel it, it unravels to the end. Often unnoticed is that not only did Hippocrates’s oath elevate human life in not allowing abortions,…
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