FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!

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

• Tolerance, justificatory liberalism, freedom of religion, and California's Proposition 8 ... what they have in common. [First Things]


• I know it's sacrilegious but I think it is creative. [MacCleans]


• Our government is so good to us lowly citizens ... they've agreed to display a copy of our Declaration of Independence in their new $621 million Capitol Visitors Center and even use some God speak (like "In God We Trust") ... well, whoop dee do! [Christian Post]


• Obama family nativity ... HO-HO-HO! [Reyters; h/t Brain-Terminal]


• POLL: One-third of Americans believe OT & NT are word of God

  That’s about the same as the percentage of people who believe in UFOs (36 percent) and less than the amount of people who believe in ghosts (44 percent), Harris Interactive found through its online survey.

  [Christian Post]


• David Dockery's reading list for 2008 [Tim Ellsworth]


• Really, except for researchers and theologians, what difference does it really make? [Christian Post]

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TAXATION: Without representation all over again!

According to news reports yesterday, over 60% of American taxpayers opposed the $700 billion bailout of the mortgage industry, now an equal number oppose bailing out the auto industry. This is significant because American liberals (and the world in general) have validated Obama's recent victory at 52.3% as a "landslide" (specifically the 349 - 147 electoral college vote) for the president elect; what's good for the Grand Goose is good good for the Geezer Gander.

Contrary to their constituent's wishes, their representatives went ahead and passed the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "bailout" scam. Now, ignoring that some of the funds in that scam have been used where not intended (where they've reached the intended target, they've not been disbursed by the recipients according to plan), our "representatives" are poised to pass this auto bailout scam.

Where there's no consequence for performance or behavior, man is prepared to perform and behave as badly as his circumstances will allow him. Since we, the people, have no power or control over the performance or behavior of either the lending or the auto industries, we look to our government to protect us from their bad performances and behaviors. The same principle is true with regard to our national defense; we look to our government representatives to protect us from the performance and behavior of those over whom we have no control.

Our representatives are already using the bailout of the lending industry as justification for bailing out the auto industry ... which begs the question of where we stop the bailing out? This doesn't even address oversight ... an hidden cost of all bailouts.

Nor does it address the subject of "representative" governance.

The reason for the American War of Independence was the Crown's failure to provide both representation and protection. The Declaration of Independence was written to tell him his colonialists were through with his failures and intended to set up their own government to do what he would not do. Our current government, the one in WDC, the one under George 44, is worse than the one under George III.

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BLACK AMERICA: Poll IDs root problem with contemporary Black America!

Without realizing it, blacks, in voting for their "Top 25 Most Influential African-Americans," revealed the root problem with Black-America today.

Yes, Virginia, there is a real problem in Black-America.

The resulting list is telling ... more for the absence of certain Uncle Toms - like Secretaries Powell and Rice, Justice Thomas, columnist Sowell, conservative Connerly, and half-breeds such as Tiger Woods and Halley Berry - than for the inclusion of sycophants such as the Right-Revs Jackson and Sharpton, smut peddlers like Rhimes and Harvey, the heretic Jakes, and the now indicted Bonds!

Reminds me of an old Black-American Zen question I'm acts all the time: if a really gifted Black-American walked into any of a number of black ghettos in America, would the bros in the hood hear the sound?

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