The IRS scandal is not going away any time soon, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration. After the initial media bombshell about the Internal Revenue Service targeting Tea Party, patriot, and other conservative groups dropped, more information about politically motivated misdeeds have surfaced. Yesterday Off The Grid News was among the first to publish details about the amazingly quick IRS processing of Malik Obama’s, Barack H. Obama Foundation tax-exempt application. The foundation garnered non-profit status in just a single month, despite telling potential supporters that their donations were tax exempt for several years
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The early councils had as their primary purpose the defense and establishment of truth, not unity. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1978) Loving Those Who Hate God? “Should you help the ungodly, and love those who hate God?”  This was the rhetorical question the prophet Jehu put to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (2 Chron. 19:2).  Jehoshaphat had gone to Israel, the northern kingdom, on a good will visit.  The two Hebrew kingdoms had been at odds for a long time, and Jehoshaphat was trying to fix things up.  He hoped to reunite the
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“There is no other stream,” said the Lion. -C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (2009) Wash, and Be Clean Naaman and his entourage pulled up before the prophet’s hovel of a home.  Naaman was ready to be impressed and amazed.  His master, the king of Syria, had his own court magicians, and they put on a pretty good show.  But the prophet of God must be in a class all his own.  After all, he could cure leprosy.  Naaman’s little servant girl had said so, and now the king of Israel had confirmed it.  Elisha
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…and then there were other people on the island.  We called them the Others, and they started attacking us.     —Hurley, Lost (2009) The primary role of anthropology thus was a process of ‘inventing the human other’ in order to develop a theory of humankind. —Sundar Sarukkai, “The ‘Other’ in Anthropology and Philosophy” (1997) The Children’s Story The war is over, and they have won.  This is the background for James Clavell’s short classic, The Children’s Story (1981).  Clavell shows us a class of second graders in some generic school after the fall of the United
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“Such are the facts of history.  The reader will make his own comments upon them.” —Bishop John Wordsworth “An Act of God.” —The official cause of a fire in an abortion clinic. The Judgment of God? Arius, the arch-heretic condemned at Nicea, stood before the Emperor and swore that his beliefs were now orthodox.  Constantine accepted his oath, though with a warning, and ordered the bishop of Constantinople, one Alexander, to receive Arius into communion.  But Alexander didn’t believe Arius’s confession, and so, prostrate on the church floor, he cried out to God: If Arius
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Occultism surfaces as a cultural phenomenon at the end of civilizations. —Gary North, Unholy Spirits (1986) …But speak the Name of Christ, and he shall see how through Him demons are routed, oracles cease, and all magic and witchcraft is confounded. —Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word (c. 320) Who’s Calling the Shots? “And now, please, attend very carefully,” the professor said.  “You have probably not heard of macrobes.” Mishearing the word, Mark Studdock looked up from the floor of his cell and began to object.  Of course he had heard of microbes, microscopic
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For the goddess brings forth the great sun and the bright moon. —Zoroaster, The Chaldean Oracles (c. 250 BC) True spirituality is not achieved in our own energy… It is the power of the crucified, risen, and glorified Christ, through the agency of the Holy Spirit, by faith. —Francis Schaeffer, True Spirituality (1971) “The Goddess Is Alive” The late twentieth century saw the rebirth of goddess worship in the West.  This religion is essentially pantheistic.  It assumes the existence of a feminine spirit or principle immanent in the Earth or in the cosmos itself.  It
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The idea of salvation by one’s own merit prevails in every religion on the face of the earth except Christianity. —Moncure Conway, My Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East (1906) This great apocalyptic battle, the greatest fight in history, has already been fought and won by Jesus Christ, St. John says, and the Dragon has been overthrown. —David Chilton, The Days of Vengeance (1987) In the third edition of History Begins at Sumer (1981), Samuel Noah Kramer credits the early Sumerians with thirty-nine human firsts, including man’s first cosmology, his first moral ideas,
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The Lord showed [Moses] the whole land…and said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.   (Deuteronomy 34: 1,4, excerpted) Look ahead. You cannot finish the task. Neither are you permitted to
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When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said “Come, make us a god who will go before us.  As for this fellow Moses who brought us out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” Aaron answered them, “Take off
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