The Monday Tour: 4/17/06

Since I "live" in an online community where theophobia is rampant; I think it is good to bring out Carter's Law of Political Rhetoric to join Godwin's Law in the upper strata of such laws (whatever they are):

As the number of religious conservatives expressing an opinion on a moral or political issue increases, the probability that someone on the political left will invoke the term “theocracy” approaches one.

This law is stated in Joe Carter's "Theocrats and Theophobes: Kevin Phillips and Carter’s Law of Political Rhetoric".
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Posts from Christian Carnival CXVII:

• Martin examines (briefly) "Water Calligraphy"
• This wasn't his ChCar post - but it was the one after it, and wanting to how someone could see "Jesus as . . . protester . . . (no, really . . . )" I read it too. The quoted piece so misses the point of my Savior's life and death that I must put in one of my infrequent, and I hope unneccessary, outs:

  Disclaimer: Linking this drivel does not imply that I think there is any merit at all in the view stated.

  Other, perhaps, than its contention for the honors of "Post Completely Missing the Point of Easter"
• For the real cost of the irresponsibly free speech of a Danish newspaper see "The Cartoons and the Suffering" in Nigerian parish - yelling fire in a crowded theater indeed.
• " Dogs find the taste of antifreeze pleasing, but it’s not a good idea to feed it to them, as it will kill them. The Gospel of Judas might seem equally inviting, but it’s something that people will do well to avoid." - Laura at Pursuing Holiness
• John examines our "Freedom to Choose?"
• Ron at Northern 'burbs has been doing a series on the Dalits ("untouchables") in India. The latest asks to "Free the Dalits: Here and Now"

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A post on hatred of the Shi'a in the Middle East at Baghdadee
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Scot at Jesus Creed has "More Thoughts on Penal Substitution 1" following his "Atonement Wars on Good Friday?"
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Jeremy also takes on the atoning work of Christ with "Deliverance From Transgressions"
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"All Politics Are Local? Don't Tell the Dems That" is a conservative look at the coming mid-term elections in light of President Bush's dismal popularity.
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In "Birthdays and Legacies", Jan looks at the 80th birthday of Hugh Heffner:

"It is Hefner who put big money into porn, now a $57 billion-a-year industry, and brought it into the cultural mainstream. His legacy is men and women who star in his films imprisoned by exploitation. It is ruined marriages and soul-killing addiction.

Chuck Colson also looks at Hugh Hefner's Legacy in his Breakpoint commentary. He references the Wall Street Journal article, and connects the dots: "the pornification of America has led to a huge increase in crime against women and children, crime committed by those who consume porn that teaches that women want to be raped and degraded."

Yep.
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World Magazine looks at a theological basis for viewing the immigration issue: "You Used to be One"
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