tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post4039063136993052868..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Context is Everythingbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-30553231087349349632019-10-12T11:40:21.569-07:002019-10-12T11:40:21.569-07:00Well, the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 3:8 this li...Well, the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 3:8 this little phrase. "Shall we do evil so that good may come?" If you stopped there, it would be great fodder for anti-Christian debate, but the greater context is that he claimed that others were slandering him by saying that he actually was advocating evil in order to accomplish good, which was simply not true.<br /><br />Ripping something out of context is a great way to make your own case against something someone else has said or written. It is also unprofessional and fraudulent. By their works, you will know them.<br /><br />"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser."--author unknown, attributed to Socrates.Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-56149261839601553092019-10-11T19:22:46.314-07:002019-10-11T19:22:46.314-07:00Christians who look to the state for moral salvati...Christians who look to the state for moral salvation are lazy Christians. They don't want to do the hard work: humility, prayer, funding, action.<br /><br />They also lack faith: God is much more powerful than any state.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-38846559480003113512019-10-11T09:34:27.964-07:002019-10-11T09:34:27.964-07:00Lorenzo seems to have her own agenda. I also don&#...Lorenzo seems to have her own agenda. I also don't see the rub. I like Ron Unz's site. I like Orthodox Christianity. I like C.S. Lewis too.<br /><br />The conservative argument that state regulation of the market is required to bring morality to bear on private exchange is probably the weakest reed in the anti-capitalist arsenal.<br /><br />It's the Nirvana Fallacy. In the free market, people will be greedy, corrupt, and degenerate and thus the worse will rise to the top, but in the condition where the state regulates trade, the consequences of these same vices manifesting within the state (an organization with an earned reputation for accelerating and magnifying vices) somehow disappear from their analysis. How convenient.<br /><br />For the Christian, it should be easy to see through this. Don't trust a Satanic organization (and the state is that) to bring about a flourishing community of Christ.<br /><br />A condition of freedom allows the possibility of vice to flourish, but, and here's what misguided conservatives overlook, it also allows what is true and good to do the same. Life under the state virtually guarantees oppression against or at least strong head winds for Christians.<br /><br />There is an argument to be made that it is only in conditions of oppression that Christianity really does purify and renew itself. But what Christian can in good conscience work towards bringing about conditions of tyranny so that a virtuous Christian community may rise up to resist it? <br /><br />None.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.com