Think Institute Podcast Appearance
In case you didn’t get to see it live, here is the YouTube recording of my discussion with Joel Settecase of the Think Institute Podcast. He’s a great guy, and it was an absolute blast. Plus he loves the book!
Billie Eilish: A Clueless Teenager the Secular World is Going All Lady Gaga Over
Until I read a thoughtful article about her a couple days ago at The Federalist, I had never heard of pop superstar Billie Eilish. Being officially “old” it doesn’t surprise me that much of pop culture passes me buy, and I’m happy to let it do so. The state of affairs that is our secular Western culture is deeply shallow and painfully dysfunctional. It’s impossible not to conclude that when 40,000 people a year in America successfully kill themselves. The young superstar herself, having fame beyond imagining and what she dreamed of as a child, deals with depression. I listened to a song or two and wasn’t impressed, but a lot of people are. One video of a new song with her newly blond hair and new look had almost 50 million views. That’s a lot of views! I also found this interview she did a couple years back, and I was struck by this 17 year-old girl being listened to and treated as if she was really, really important. Watch the interview to see what I mean.
The Doctrine of the Incomprehensibility of God: Live It, Learn It, Love It!
It should be obvious that God is by definition incomprehensible, yet human beings, you and me included, somehow think we can comprehend him. This happens in subtle and not so subtle ways, but the pretension is the same. Somehow we think that our finite brains are capable of understanding the being of God, his ontology, the knowing of God, his epistemology, and his working, the how and why of it, both in creation and redemption (or re-creation). The ontological argument for God’s existence states that “God is a being than which no greater can be conceived.” Exactly. If we could conceive of anything greater he would not be God, he would be a figment of our imagination. Unfortunately, as sinners we are really good at creating a God that is a figment of our imagination. It just never bears any resemblance to the God who is actually there. (more…)
Voddie Baucham on the The Abomination of Sodomy
In case you’re not familiar with that word, it means homosexuality, and to call it an abomination is, well, just not polite! Not to mention, it can get you “cancelled.” I’m shocked this video by Voddie hasn’t gotten taken down from YouTube, or what I’ve come to call CommieTube. I guess the totalitarian thugs who run that joint missed it in their algorithms. Hopefully, my world famous blog (yes you can Laugh Out Loud) won’t bring unwanted attention to Voddie speaking Truth to Power, cultural power, that is.
Even in our biblically illiterate time, the phrase “Sodom and Gomorrah” is somewhat familiar, but few could explain the reference. Voddie Baucham gives what in my opinion is the best talk (sermon) I’ve ever heard on the topic of homosexuality from a faithfully biblical perspective. Needless to say, this won’t get him any praise from secular cultural elites, or any non-conservative Christians, but Christianity has never been driven by what is culturally acceptable. Needless to say, but unfortunately it is needed, that has never been the case. From day one when our Savior was crucified between two thieves for claiming to be exactly who he was, he and his followers were to forever be a threat to the political, cultural, and spiritual powers of the age.
Was Feuerbach Right: Is Religion Merely a Human Projection? Yes and No
If you’re not familiar with Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), he was a significantly influential atheist philosopher, primarily because he influenced two of the great malevolent thinkers of the modern age, Marx and Freud. The misery left in the wake of their influence on the 20th century is awesome to behold in its sheer destruction. For Marx that manifested itself in the slaughter of more than a hundred million human beings, and for Freud, the psychological and emotional destruction of generations. We can add to that that many took him as an inspiration for the so called sexual revolution, and we know that hasn’t turned out so well. All three men were committed believers in a God-less universe, but it was Feuerbach who laid the foundation with his assertion that all religion was merely human wish fulfillment. His arguments were definitely not that simplistic, but he believed since there was no God, the prevalence of religion in all cultures and all times had to be explained in some way, and human psychology was it. (more…)
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