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Jesus Did Not Teach Universal ‘Acceptance, Tolerance, and Inclusion’

  • Religion
June 14, 2017December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We are often told today that Jesus taught radical ‘acceptance, tolerance, and inclusion’.  Well, he did open the door to many the Pharisees thought beyond hope, and on the other hand he excluded many of the Pharisees themselves. Let’s start with […]

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Why I’m Not Ultimately a Pessimist

  • Religion
May 1, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

These are strange times indeed.  The traditional ‘fusion-conservatism’ has been shattered, to be replaced by a form of nationalism that in some forms seems to lean in the unfortunate direction of white nationalism. Some of the old social conservatives have […]

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I’m Classical Protestant. What’s ‘Solidarity’?

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April 8, 2017June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Since the age of 23, I have been a believing orthodox Protestant Christian.  I was recently reading the latest book by R. R. Reno, Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society.  This book seems in many ways to go deeper […]

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Opportunities for Positive Testimony

  • Religion
October 24, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The candidacy of Donald Trump, and his takeover of the Republican Party, has split the American evangelical world and is, I think, purging it.  But it is creating opportunities for positive testimony as well.  The Daily Beast, far from a […]

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Do We Have Something to Offer Working Class Whites? An Open Letter to the CCDA Leadership

  • Religion
August 23, 2016July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the last couple of years there have been a number of stories about an increase in the death rate of working class whites that has not been paralleled among their African American and Latino counterparts.  At the same time, […]

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James K. A. Smith and the Pentecostal World View

  • Religion
November 30, 2015July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Is there such a thing as a ‘Pentecostal philosophy’?  James K. A. Smith says there is.  They don’t necessarily talk about it in ways we are accustomed to, but he says they have one.  And here are its major elements […]

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Heterosexual Cohabitation and The Church – After Obergefell

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September 7, 2015July 23, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The historic church, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox, has taken a dim view of ‘cohabitation,’ which used to be called ‘shacking up’ or ‘living in sin.’ The faithful churches in fact generally try to deny the Sacrament to those in cohabitation. […]

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If We’re ‘Better Behaved’ Just Because We’re Affluent, God is Not Impressed

  • Religion
September 2, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It is often believed that poorer people are worse behaved and therefore undesirable neighbors; and certainly enough, certain pathological behaviors are more common in the poor communities.  This is used as an argument for zoning and government land use control […]

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Comment on WSJ – Walter Russell Mead – On the Future of Middle East Christians

  • Religion
May 31, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Walter Russell Mead really hits the nail on the head, here.  He explains that the four older empires, Ottoman, Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian, were, whatever their weaknesses, “multiethnic and multi confessional states.”  After the fall of these empires, all these […]

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“Shared Intentionality” and its Implications

  • Religion
February 2, 2015June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ‘developmental and comparative psychologist’ Michael Tomasello, an American who now works at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, has come up with a concept called “shared intentionality” as a mark that separates humans from chimpanzees and bonobos [asserted in […]

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I have no idea what she meant by WHITE life. A real racist would forbid abortion for whites and subsidize it for everybody else. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/mary-miller-donald-trump-john-cornyn-white-life

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I’m pro-life (mostly) and I favor eighteen year staggered terms fo the Supreme Court myself! We need to be honest about what the Supreme Court has become. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-04/column-supreme-court-term-limit

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OK let’s have a pro life anti poverty left then. https://apple.news/AMWwlvcHfR1a0CgeRQgUNbA

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