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This post may get a whole lotta folks mad at me, but I don’t care. It needs to be said…

You’ve probably heard by now that the Los Angeles diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is paying $660 million to keep from going to court over long-standing allegations of sexual abuse of children by its priests.

This could have been avoided if the Catholic Church had long ago put an end to its insane policy that forbids its clergy to marry.

The Catholic Church believes that priests and nuns should be “married” to the church. That if the hearts and minds of its clergy are fully devoted to serving the Church, that this will provide an adequate substitute for the natural sex drive that almost all of us have. The implication is that if its priests and nuns are “tempted by the flesh” enough to desire sexual stimulation, then they ...

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A lady named Shirley Skidmore, who is apparently from somewhere in east Texas, sent me the following e-mail. This must be in reference to my recent post about Focus on the Family disapproving of Transformers. Here’s Shirley’s letter…

Subject: What Are You Transformed By?

Chris, Chris, Chris!

You have to be dead to the things of Christ to approve of this filtly liscensious movie. The teen starlet was dressed as a whore . Every move, every direction, every word on her account was conformed to the gutteral nature of a Godless culture. You areyond believabilty to deny that lust was the drawing card for much of the film. Pornographic techniques were used to the max here. The lanquage in both subject and vanacular was Godless. It transformed eveyone who watched it to a place farther from Christ’s standard.

Only blind and naked Christians could possibly support this film

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There’s a very disturbing piece in the News & Observer by Holly Brewer, associate professor of early American history at North Carolina State University. I had no idea this was happening in North Carolina schools, until I read her article. According to Dr. Brewer, North Carolina public schools are no longer giving high school students even a basic education in American history prior to the Revolution…

RALEIGH – While few of us have noticed, the state Department of Public Instruction has gutted history education in North Carolina. As a result of a decision taken largely without public input or comment, high school students no longer learn about Colonial and Revolutionary American history unless they take Advanced Placement classes. Required U.S. history in high school now begins with George Washington’s presidency and ends with that of George W. Bush. It is crammed into one semester (on block scheduling) instead of

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I’ve mentioned this once or twice before on this blog. I’ll do it again right now: I almost went to work for Focus on the Family.

It was several years ago. And I was a Christian still young in the faith, full of “spice and vinegar” as they say and eager to use whatever talents I have for the service of the Lord.

My my my, the myriad of ways in which we spiritually grow.

People who know me have said that my faith has come a very, very long way. But along the journey I’ve become a lot more disillusioned with many of the things that we perceive as “properly Christian”. If we are going to follow Christ, then let us follow Christ for His sake, and not because we want a measure of political power out of the deal.

The Chris Knight of 1999 would have gladly gone ...

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This is the “unabashed conservative” with the “great conservative record” that is supposed to be the only legitimate candidate for President?

(I’m not going to say here who exactly described Fred Thompson as that, only that the person in question is, well… the biggest sell-out and loon that I’ve ever seen on the Internet.)

From ABC News…

Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s got their hands in everything.”

This is precisely the reason why a lot of us aren’t being fooled into supporting Fred Thompson and are instead backing Ron Paul for President: because government really does have its hands in everything. Paul has a record for doing his best to remedy that situation. Fred Thompson just rolls over and lets it happen (and makes ...

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… but he has no problem commuting the sentence of buddy Scooter Libby for lying under oath.

Yet another post on this blog that will be tagged with “moral rot”.

(Wondering how long it will take for some Bush-bot to come out of the woodwork and jump flunky on me for daring to criticize the Chosen One(tm).)

EDIT 9:41 p.m. EST: And now elite-anointed quasi-candidate Fred Thompson is saying that “I am very happy for Scooter Libby.”

I spent eight years frustrated at the Clinton administration for getting away with this sort of thing. Only to watch the ensuing Republican administration do the same thing shamelessly.

Tell me again how it is that the two parties are supposed to be “different” from each other....

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After more than six years of George W. Bush being President, it still hadn’t hit me about what has been the most absolutely horrible atrocity he has committed during his time in the White House. And then today I read “The Worst Tragedy Of The Bush Presidency” by Christian minister Chuck Baldwin… and it hits me like an anvil between the eyes:

George W. Bush has almost completely destroyed sincere Christianity’s foothold in America. And in its place, Bush has allowed a blasphemous god of power to take the place of Christ in the hearts of many, many professing believers: idolatry on an unprecedented scale.

Here is some of what Chuck Baldwin says in his piece…

… the worst tragedy of the Bush presidency lies with something even deeper and more permanent (if that is possible). The worst tragedy of the Bush presidency is the damage he has done to

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Of all the writers on the ‘net that I’ve made a habit of regularly reading – and there aren’t that many, truth be known – few have held my admiration longer than has Norman Liebmann, AKA “Firehat”. Liebmann is the guy who created the classic television series The Munsters, among other things. And he’s always had a rapier-like wit that he’ll turn loose on anything deserving of derision. Well, today he tears into George W. Bush, with a wrath that can only be called legendary. A very brief sample:

In trying to fathom the immigration policy of George W. Bush, if we rule out treason, stupidity becomes the default explanation – and an explanation that is not an excuse. It is remarkable that anyone as trivial as Bush can manage to provoke such hostility. Bush traveled the world as a President and returned as a refugee.

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Cowardice.

It’s an ugly word. It’s not one to lightly employ. It’s certainly not one that I’ve ever felt comfortable with using, regardless of the situation. In fact, I don’t know if I’ve ever used “cowardice” in a piece of serious writing at all. Ever. It doesn’t show up when I scan this blog for it. It certainly isn’t something that I’ve been chomping at the bit for the chance to get to use it someday.

I’ve tried my best to avoid it.

But sometimes, when reflecting on your feelings, you run out of descriptors that define your estimation of what it is that you’ve seen. There’s one word that’s staring straight back at you and despite your damndest efforts, there’s no other alternative. You have to use it. Because it really does sum up everything that you’ve just witnessed…

And what I saw last night, was cowardice.

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