FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning people and events of faith ...

• MARRIAGE: Well written response to Newsweek's diatribe duo, Meacham and Miller - WARNING: Traditional view presented [Tennessee Baptist Convention]


• HAGGARD: it's hard to forgive this guy - but the Lord says we must. [FOX News]


• ELIMINATIONALISTS: WSJ via Maggie's Farm - Rick Warren and the left are "eliminationalists" - I don't believe the former, but I do the latter [WSJ; Maggie's Farm]
  


• EUTHANASIA: a rational argument against it - Physician Assisted Suicide not justifiable - it's an act of individualism. [Doc Is In]


• PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Counselor caught on video resigns - now will the rest of them follow her example? [FOX News]


• CONSTITUTION: Here's Separation of Church and State I can live with ... can't have cake and eat it too ... I hope! [Yahoo! News]


• CHILD PORN: appellate court gets one right - sexual images with kids, even if drawn or digital, are illegal. [FOX News]

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POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning all things political ...

• Eight really, really scary predictions. [Fortune Mag.; h/t Justin Tapp]


• Every where we look people are warning about pres-elect's abortion program plans. [Am. Thinker; h/t Black Kettle]
  


• Vet's widows wronged and it ain't right! [Yahoo! News]


• Right to die ain't a right but is fashionable. [Times Online UK; h/t Black Kettle]


• Are there three parts to freedom? Night Twister at Red State thinks so ... go there and see if you agree! [Red State]
  


• I was referred to Kudzo 630's Blog by the Kudzo himself ... he's posted a brief review of Ch. 2, "The Need for Principles", from Russell Kirk's 1957 non-fiction The American Cause (may be out of print); Ch. 1, Ignorance: A Dangerous Luxury, is here. The reviews are pithy and relevant. [Kudzo 360's]


• Here is why I don't believe our intervention in Iraq will have lasting results ... these people are nuts! [BBC]

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FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning people and events of faith ...

• NAE in hot water again ... this time for an NAE executive's personal views concerning traditional values (abortion, gay marriage) as they relate to elections and candidate qualifications. [Christian Post] UPDATE: Exec resigns.


• EUTHANASIA: American retires to UK in order to go to Switzerland to end his suffering now a docu-celeb! I don't begrudge him his choice but it doesn't change who gives and takes life (Deuteronomy 32:39). [Sky News; h/t FOXNews]


• If you are a regular at The CRIB you may have noticed there's no ephemeral category for "Sports." That's because we stopped being a fan when athlete felonies exceeded hail-marys.
  
  But then I didn't know about this ... awesome! I'd love to attend! Nothing better than a squad of God's men singing His praises! [Christian Post]


• Yea, and we have the "right" to be self-indulgent fools as well, I guess! [FOX News]


• Lisa Miller in her Newsweek cover story offers an excellent example of what happens when you buy into the teachings of liberal theologians. Speaking out of the natural man rather than the supernatural man, rather than change her worldview to accommodate His message, Miller redacts His text in order to fit her message. [Newsweek; h/t News Busters (related: Is Newsweek's Meacham challenging religious America?)]


• This is the reason I'm more forgiving of Bush 43's record concerning issues of faith over the past 8 years ... he simply doesn't know any better! [FOX News]


• The Cardinal, the Madonna, and the Dictator (or more relevantly - the apostate, the sinner, and the oppressor) ... definitely a sign of the times! [Yahoo! News]

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FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...

• Russell D. Moore at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary leads off his pro-life commentary with this ...

  Ross Douthat heroically engages the attempt to blame the meltdown of the Republican Party on pro-lifers.

  [NYT; Moore to the Point]


• CELEB TESTIMONY #1 - Celebrity testimonies give me a pain where the grass won't grow. Here is an entertaining testimony by a well-know celebrity ... and not a single mention of Jesus, sin, confession, forgiveness, or the need for a Savior. [Powerline; h/t Maggie's Farm]
  


• CELEB TESTIMONY #2 - Jessica Simpson wants to return to her roots ... will her public give her a chance? Based on her behavior and her words, I'm curious just who her father might be? [John 8:48; Christian Post]


• CELEB TESTIMONY #3 - Have you ever wondered about Willie Nelson's faith? Well, wonder no longer! [Moore to the Point]


• The Miracle of Hope ... no not BHO's, Angola's ... no not the country, the prison. Yeh! The one in Louisiana.
  
  We watched the documentary last night and was blessed. I wonder though how long it will be before the ACLU and the other God haters try to shut down the success of this faith-based effort? [Christian Post; buy the DVD at BrooklynTabernacle]


• Atheism vs Christianity; especially the latter as it relates to our nation's foundations from the mind of a critical thinker. [Hillsdale; h/t View from 1776]
  


• Montana is not that far from Oregon, so this is not surprising; what continues to be surprising is the arrogance of man. [FOXNews]


• Words have meaning; without words, there is no meaning; without traditional and historical words, traditions and history lose meaning, without which a nation has no meaning! [Telegraph UK; h/t Black Kettle]
  


• The Grand Duke of Luxembourg (a Catholic) is opposed to euthanasia (and so is the Vatican); refuses to sign a law permitting the practice. However, the Prime Minister (also a Catholic and leader of the country's "Christian" Socialist Party) endorses killing the unwanted and inconvenient; he is in a position to push legislation that would downgrade the Grand Duke's legislative role. Three cheers for murder! Yahoo! [Times Online; h/t Cranmer]

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PROPHETIC VOICE: Be assured America's respect for life will soon end after Europe falls!

If the gist of this report is true ... no rational reason to assume it's not ... then all we have to do is wait until the EU shoe drops, the cheap thud of the USA shoe won't be far behind ...

Pro-life and pro-family campaigners have been warned to expect the publication of documents, funded by the European Union, promoting abortion, euthanasia and other anti-life and anti-family practices. These documents will purportedly allow “zero tolerance for dissent,” in particular seeking to eradicate the right to conscientious objection. [LifeSite News; h/t Black Kettle]

If this continues at its present pace, I envision a Christian Masada on every continent at some point ... unless the Lord takes us up first (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).

The movement towards removing the right of “conscientious objection” has also become a looming concern in the United States. President-Elect Barack Obama has promised to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), should it be passed by Congress. FOCA would force all hospitals and medical professionals to provide abortions, with no rights of conscientious objection.

The man calls himself a Christian but he is a fraud, a total fraud.

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - Let's Do It Again!

Here in California we once again have taxation without representation ... talk about oxymorons (which literally means "a sharp fool"). Perhaps California is not just the land of the fruits, flakes, and nuts but also pointy-headed fools.

Not only is State Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Frisky) attempting to have the will of the people thrown out by doing an end run around Propostion 22 (the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Act; passed by 62 percent of the voters) but now Assembly members Berg (D-Santa Russo) and Levine (D-Van Eyes) want "physician assisted suicide" on the books so the communities of death can have another party.

According to some there are two reasonable arguments against the legislation -

First, those who are aggressively treated for pain loose their desire for early death, instead opting to stay around to see loved ones as long as possible.

Second, the record books are filled with hundreds of cases of people who've been given months to live who've lived productively for years.

San Francisco Chronicle writer, Debra Saunders offers an opposition opinion piece on the proffered "physician-assisted suicide" legislation. In the article she says ...

Yet the 171 people known to have used medical assistance to end their lives under the Oregon law since 1997 don't fit the profile of the helpless and pain-wracked patient sold to Oregon voters, Greene noted. Only 22 percent listed fear of inade-quate pain control as their reason for choosing suicide. More telling -- 87 percent cited fear of losing autonomy.

Perhaps it is time to give serious consideration of some kind of Latterday Declaration of Independence to counteract this lousy representation we're getting for our tax dollars. Who moved the rock so these creatures could crawl out?