If one happens to be in the market for a cultural shock, he oftentimes needs only rent a movie from the 1940′s. In my particular case, I had the pleasure of watching a Jimmy Stewart movie titled “The Shop Around the Corner,” a film excellent in every way, and unusually witty for a romantic comedy. But what struck me most powerfully about the film was not so much the clever script, the perfectly selected cast, nor the believable romance, but rather a statement made by several characters about their employment. They stated, in terms which make the modern man’s head spin, that they “wanted to be somebody,” when what they meant was, they wanted to be either clerks or store managers. (more…)
29. February 2012
28. February 2012
Christian Sharia? Part 1: Biblical Law in Historical America
In a world of political slander and misrepresentations both purposeful and accidental, there are few insults less ridiculous than those pertaining to “Christian Sharia,” or, rather, that the logical conclusion of a Biblical legal stance is Arabic despotism. One doesn’t have to look far back in history to see that many figures (if not most) crucial to the establishment of classical liberalism, as well as to the foundation of the United States of America, proclaimed without hesitation that law itself, if it was ever to be just, must agree with the legal principles contained in Scripture or be opposed. (more…)
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22. February 2012
Christian Sharia? Part 2: Applying Biblical Law to a Free Society
The necessity of Biblical Law being established in a previous article, it is now the author’s intention to examine how a Biblical legal stance would apply to a non-Jewish nation. For there are many confusing aspects of Biblical Law, which, if not addressed, could very well establish an unGodly tyranny instead of liberty, and so it is up to the astute observer to note the differences between wise and foolish applications. I humbly submit the following points as a rough sketch of a Biblical legal system, and request the input of all God fearing and learned elders. (more…)
18. February 2012
The concept of Biblical slavery, and America’s prison system
There are perhaps fewer topics more uncomfortably discussed in America than the topic of slavery. This horrible institution birthed a class of men who, though passing into the hereafter long ago, have bequeathed their whiplash scars to generations ever since. It has cemented in certain races feelings of tremendous and unnatural guilt, and in others an almost irrevocable grudge, building from within to without, essentially destroying the very framework of liberty in the names of reconciliation and revenge; seeking a justice for which the time has so long since past, that any attempts at such result in injustice toward peoples who did not commit the crimes, oftentimes in favor of many who seek to explain their own moral deficiencies. It is a horrible historical abomination, and one which all noble men wish could be put behind them, the hurt of yesteryear giving way to today’s camaraderie, and Americans living under one flag, under one God, and as one human race. (more…)