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The Sin of Entitlement

  • Religion
August 22, 2018January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…often-discussed attitude of ‘entitlement’, and a sense of entitlement that triggers a multitude of sins. Entitlement Triggers First, it seems to me that all theft has to be triggered by…

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Does Justice Equal Entitlement: A Book Review

  • Religion
March 18, 2011August 16, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…the wages [a juridical entitlement] of sin is death, but the gift [by definition not an entitlement] of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” Keller rightly reasons…

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Why ‘entitlement’ programs aren’t really entitlements

  • Politics
February 1, 2013July 24, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I fully agree with Jim Huffman of Lewis and Clark Law school that the ‘entitlements’ of Social Security and Medicare are not, in any moral sense, entitlements. That does not…

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My Long Awaited Healthcare Post (In the Form of a Book Notice)

  • Politics
January 12, 2010December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…I just don’t believe that government welfare is a moral and ethical entitlement that can never be reduced or altered despite the fiscal needs of the state. And, Social Security…

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“Spoiled Rich Kids” and “Ghetto Gangsters”

  • Culture
February 6, 2014August 15, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…as a ‘sense of entitlement’ or even greed, because I think these vices to be widespread in other parts of society as well. If anything, trustfunders are probably less ‘greedy’…

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Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty

  • Economics,
  • Religion
May 20, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…or ‘entitlements‘, we must be very careful about what we are asking for. Every human being cannot have a claim on a specific quantity of a finite and limited resource…

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018March 31, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…entire life. So I needed something more than just ‘rules’. I reread C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and learned that the sin of ‘entitlement’ was central. [That will be…

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The Heart vs. The Gut

  • Religion
November 18, 2009July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…However, I have gotten over my sense of “entitlement,” also an attitude of the heart, and do not rage when I find few alternatives left after parsing the salad menu….

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The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s

  • Politics
July 19, 2018March 31, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…state, there is not one verse in the black or the red letters of the Bible conferring a moral entitlement by anyone to the resources of the state. Not one….

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A Croatia Travelogue

  • Miscellaneous
September 27, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…had an excellent truffle pasta [a staple in the region] and I had a pretty good lamb stew, except my American sense of entitlement was disturbed by pieces of bone…

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