tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58881231480743319342024-03-04T22:14:35.719-07:00Intellectual Conservative BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3946125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-50265973909525541372024-02-15T16:41:00.001-07:002024-02-15T16:41:00.256-07:00Unsettling Advent Devotionals Wobbly With Shaky AssumptionsIt used to be that the Christmas season allowed the individual a sliver of each year to enjoy pursuits one might considered distinct and even detached to an extent from the concerns and troubles of ordinary life. Some look forward to the Advent season to reflect upon the eternal profundities of God coming into the world in the form of human flesh. Others bask more in the Yuletide side of thingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-71122824489577738182023-04-27T15:21:00.005-07:002023-04-27T15:21:42.650-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 10 From this study, it becomes apparent that the End Times and consummation of all things is not solely a concern of the twentieth and twenty-first century church. Rather this outlook has been a part of the conceptual framework of the spiritually inclined since at least the earliest days of that institution and perhaps even earlier. Admittedly, interest in the apocalypse has ebbed and flowed Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-55450031981324703242023-03-12T16:18:00.004-07:002023-03-12T16:18:36.609-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 9 Concerns regarding the End Times have become such a pervasive aspect of contemporary culture that, Richard Kyle writes, “Thus in the late twentieth century the apocalyptic mindset is no longer the fringe phenomena of a few marginalized people which we can ignore (166).” No longer are the most devout or religiously pious the only ones realizing that the world as we know it will likely one Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-13008465493303438372023-02-13T17:22:00.002-07:002023-02-13T17:22:22.953-07:00Faulty Theological Interpretation Could Turn DeadlyIt is not an historical or theological overstatement that a faulty eschatology can turn deadly.
Usually such a conclusion is deduced by reflecting upon sectarians that construe the passages regarding the End Times as being not only imminently literal but having to be implemented by believers themselves rather than by directly through the manifest actions of the Almighty Himself.
For exampleUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-65850754149417351102022-12-30T07:16:00.001-07:002022-12-30T07:16:12.669-07:00Response To Capitol Kerfuffle An Excuse To Curtail Free Speech In light of the Capitol Kerfuffle, powerful elites are vociferously suggesting that those questioning the outcome of the 2020 election should be banned from social media or even forced to resign from elected office.So what other notions considered to be historical truths should we be forbidden from questioning if we as individuals wish to retain our tenacious grip on what few diminishing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-86485353757186449712022-12-28T06:36:00.002-07:002022-12-28T06:36:21.466-07:00Is The GOP Losing Its Will To Fight? A story in the 10/3/22 edition of the Christian Science Monitor is titled “In Arizona, a major test of GOP unity: Will Republicans follow Barry Goldwater or Donald Trump?” But in the contexts of their respective particular historical moments, were these figures viewed that differently by their respective Party establishments and leftwing media critics? After all, was it not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-34697691329591252702022-12-21T17:25:00.004-07:002022-12-21T17:25:51.805-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 8 Though history is linear in that it is moving towards an ultimate destination rather than circular in the sense of rigid absolute recurrence, it cannot be denied that the dynamics of human development and unfolding events do often follow a cyclical path over time. For example, eventually the sects of the nineteenth century that began with considerable apocalyptic and utopian fervor such as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-30340310580712353122022-12-08T08:38:00.001-07:002022-12-08T08:38:06.067-07:00Pelosi Now Fawns Over Police Despite Once Backing Defunding Continuing to keep the January 6th pot stirred nearly two years later, the Termagant Pelosi bestowed Congressional Gold Medals on two police officers that did not die technically from any injuries sustained in the infamous kerfuffle.One passed later as a result of natural causes and the other by his own hand in an act of suicide.At the ceremony, Pelosi categorized January 6, 2021 as “the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-20420973463849068102022-12-05T17:24:00.003-07:002022-12-05T17:24:22.983-07:00Tolerancemongers Now Triggered By Comments On Triggering The thing about revolutions is that, unless they are opposed, they are never concluded.Those advocating systematized social upheaval and transformation are so perennially unhappy that their particular understanding of reality can be the only one granted the sanction of recognized existence.That is why the end game is described as totalitarian.For example, now that the progressivist mindset Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-71024685357807844792022-11-17T07:35:00.001-07:002022-11-17T07:35:10.449-07:00Scanners Set To Discernment: The Progression Of Worldviews Leading To The Acceptance Of Extraterrestrials (Part 2) Julius Caesar, in his account of his escapades in Gaul, noted how that region was divided into three parts. Something similar might be said of the major epochs of the prevailing cultural currents in the West. Before the revelation of the one true God radiated outward towards the uttermost parts of the Earth from the Holy Land, for the most part with the exception of the Jewish people the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-83658264976162664652022-10-27T16:37:00.001-07:002022-10-27T16:37:25.897-07:00Scanners Set To Discernment: The Progression Of Worldviews Leading To The Acceptance Of Extraterrestrials (Part 1)At the time of this writing in the early decades of the twenty-first century, to the unsuspecting it seems unlikely that extraterrestrials could serve as the basis of an influential new world religion or at least a popular form of budding spirituality. Of the groups examined thus far, the adherents of these are for the most part along the periphery of social acceptance and interpersonal success.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-67484011349421863902022-09-17T09:53:00.001-07:002022-09-17T09:53:49.422-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 6 Dispensationalist premillennialism and apocalypticism held to the Biblical warning that the days are waxing worse and worse. However, in terms of the opportunity to spread such a message and the pervasiveness of its influence, there was no better time for the field of prophetic studies than the second half of the twentieth century. Increased interest in eschatology in the waning decades of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-21330440776761440372022-09-07T16:40:00.004-07:002022-09-07T16:40:52.620-07:00Star Wars Miniseries Construed As Cautionary Morality Tale
The
Star Wars series “Andor” is being marketed as an allegory
regarding the Trump Presidency in regards to the loss of individual
rights.
The
series is purported to chronicle the rise of the Rebel Alliance in
opposition to the Galactic Empire.
So
apparently insurrections against certain forms of authority are to be
celebrated while so roundly condemned in regards to others as to
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-92232292505781860662022-08-27T09:09:00.001-07:002022-08-27T09:09:16.201-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 6 The Great Disappointment served as a warning that an interpretative eschatological system needed to be formulated that incorporated what many believed to be the portion of divine revelation yet to be fulfilled while protecting those holding to these truths from falling into the hysteria and panic that can easily grip the minds of those realizing that the present age is soon coming to an Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-47644168305515553102022-08-09T15:44:00.002-07:002022-08-09T15:44:18.946-07:00Propagandists Outraged Conservatives Speaking Out Against Leftwing Corporatism The cover of the 8/12/22 issue of Newsweek depicts an elephant prepared to step on a Mickey Mouse standing atop a soapbox holding a megaphone in one hand and the homosexual ensign in the other.The article is titled accordingly to decry, “War On Woke: As More Companies Take A Liberal Stand On Social Issues, The Right Is Fighting Back”.One would do well to consider the underlying Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-279772735063013832022-07-16T11:18:00.001-07:002022-07-16T11:18:03.568-07:00Aging Thespian Advocates Secession Actor Ron Perlman, a self-avowed liberal, is calling for Red and Blue states to go their separate ways.The aging thespian readily admitted, “You don’t wanna live in my world and I certainly don’t want to live in yours.”The declaration acknowledged the irreconcilable differences in values that have come to characterize America for a half century at the least.But where are the condemnations Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-71771091082822789562022-07-09T11:33:00.002-07:002022-07-09T11:33:14.470-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 5 Today, most theologians specializing in eschatology will readily agree
that America is likely not directly referenced in the portions of
Scripture dealing with the End Times. Interestingly, that belief was
not necessarily the case in regards to the eschatologically inclined
during the era of early European settlement and formation of America as a
nation. Nor has fascination with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-18355786738652808742022-05-27T16:48:00.003-07:002022-05-27T16:48:36.749-07:00Leftist Platitudes Won't Stop A Single Shooting In an initial analysis, many of the platitudes proffered by Sojourners Magazine seem well intended. Yet it is often more that these ultimately fail to address the world as it actually exists in favor of how one might long for it to be. For example, in recognition of the Texas school massacre, this media outlet distributed as part of its regular email newsletter a poem with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-2658703107741682912022-04-17T16:01:00.002-07:002022-04-17T16:01:23.611-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 4 The early modern period roughly from the time of the Reformation up approximately to the time of the First World War could probably be considered an era of apocalyptic ambiguity. For it was during this time that interest in the Millennium and the End Times ebbed and flowed. It can also be observed that, though there was was a great deal of similarity in terms of the eschatological thinking Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-38442811317356899692022-03-16T16:12:00.002-07:002022-03-16T16:12:08.783-07:00Examples Of Transhumanism In Popular Culture When confronted with the idea of Transhumanism (the idea that human beings ought to embrace the advancement of the abilities of the species beyond our traditional limitations often through the application of science and technology), the average person is likely to zone out. With words such as nanotechnology, cybernetics, and panspermia bandied back and forth in such discussions, it is easy Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-75297117918004632702022-02-10T17:05:00.001-07:002022-02-10T17:05:11.888-07:00The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 3 With Augustinian theology elevated to the status of the defacto
official position of the Roman Catholic Church, eschatology was
downplayed in terms of an emphasized doctrine. However, that did not
necessarily mean that assorted undershepherds followed this example
dutifully. Rather, a number of subtle errors were introduced over the
decades and centuries often from non-Biblical Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-43495796664828653512022-01-23T12:52:00.004-07:002022-01-23T12:52:34.879-07:00Scanners Set To Discernment: Examples Of UFO Religions To most Americans, the idea of beings from beyond this world does not at the moment impact their lives to any appreciable degree. Usually to most people the consideration of the topic is more akin to a transient pondering that may creep intermittently into their minds from time to time. Sadly, in that way then, such entities are a bit like God to many who are, for the most part, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-80142091973679453832021-11-17T16:07:00.003-07:002021-11-17T16:07:33.953-07:00Scanners Set To Discernment: Highlight History Of The Contemporary UFO Phenomena
When Christians approach the contemporary UFO and extraterrestrial
phenomena, they would be best advised to keep two things in mind that
are distinct yet interrelated. Firstly, irrespective of whether UFO's
exist or not as an objective or verifiable phenomena, they do in terms
of the minds of those that believe in them and draw from them an
inspiration as a mechanism for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-42252175863558222622021-11-09T16:31:00.001-07:002021-11-09T16:31:04.816-07:00Liberals Don't Believe Eco Claims They Accuse Conservatives Of DenyingAn article published in the 11/2021 issue of the New Republic is
titled “Climate Of Ignorance: How much evidence of climate change will
the right dismiss?”.
Does this media dinosaur intend to publish a similar diatribe
condemning the even greater environmental hypocrisy of the totalitarian
progressives such as the author ending the column with the call for
Americans to cut back on meat Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888123148074331934.post-13128937930528250002021-11-08T20:30:00.003-07:002021-11-08T20:30:42.106-07:00The Principles & Ideas Of DeismOne of the perplexities of philosophical and religious research is that
it can be easy to misconstrue the personalities and movements one is
attempting to study through the prism of one's own respective worldview.
This tendency, if one is not careful to adjust for it, can be
compounded when decades and even centuries separate those seeking to
understand the past and those events, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0