“The story of Noah and the ark reminds us that God has not given up on his good world, even though it has been ravaged by sin and death. In a burst of rapturous praise, the psalmist in Psalm 24 declares that the whole earth, and everything in it, belongs to the Lord. God still loves his world. A glorious future awaits the earth.” …
“At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living ‘east of Eden,’ always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.”
The pizza lady in Walkertown, Indiana has over $700k so far, given by 23,634 people.
The Chick-fil-a principle at work.
Also: A FoxNews contributor tried the same trick the reporter from South Bend tried. He went to a Muslim bakery in Dearborn, Mich. and asked them to bake a cake for a same sex wedding. The guy refused.
He called the media.
No one cares.
“I’m very worried,” he said, of events of the last week. “The constituency for religious liberty just isn’t there anymore.”
Like me, what unnerved Prof. Kingsfield is not so much the details of the Indiana law, but the way the overculture treated the law. “When a perfectly decent, pro-gay marriage religious liberty scholar like Doug Laycock, who is one of the best in the country — when what he says is distorted, you know how crazy it is.”
“Alasdair Macintyre is right,” he said. “It’s like a nuclear bomb went off, but in slow motion.” What he meant by this is that our culture has lost the ability to reason together, because too many of us want and believe radically incompatible things.
But only one side has the power. When I asked Kingsfield what most people outside elite legal and academic circles don’t understand about the way elites think, he said “there’s this radical incomprehension of religion.”
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Photo going around FB shows the KKK saluting a cross with the words superimposed: “All those in favor of renaming bigotry, prejudice, hate and discrimination ‘Religious Freedom’ raise your hands”
This narrative is so off the wall, but even some of my liberal Christian friends have “bought” it. As the professor says in the article I linked to above, it’s like a nuclear bomb went off in slow motion over this.
And people have literally just lost their heads.
It’s like we’re speaking different languages to each other anymore.
Wandering Views 
The world news is grim, and the “thought-control” police here in the U.S. are in a full-court press to bring everyone in line — or else.
But then I read this. 🙂 God is up to something in this world. Always.
http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/say-goodbye-to-lifeboat-theology
“The story of Noah and the ark reminds us that God has not given up on his good world, even though it has been ravaged by sin and death. In a burst of rapturous praise, the psalmist in Psalm 24 declares that the whole earth, and everything in it, belongs to the Lord. God still loves his world. A glorious future awaits the earth.” …
“At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living ‘east of Eden,’ always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.”
Rejoice.
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The pizza lady in Walkertown, Indiana has over $700k so far, given by 23,634 people.
The Chick-fil-a principle at work.
Also: A FoxNews contributor tried the same trick the reporter from South Bend tried. He went to a Muslim bakery in Dearborn, Mich. and asked them to bake a cake for a same sex wedding. The guy refused.
He called the media.
No one cares.
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Here’s the video Chas refers to. I wonder why the media and left aren’t protesting and throwing a hissy fit?
OK, not really.
There’s no way you get a gay wedding cake in Dearbornistan. and yet all you hear is crickets. Such hypocrites!
I love Steven Crowder, but….
CONTENT WARNING!!!!
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Thanks Anon. I had heard about this, but never saw it.
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I posted this on the daily thread, but probably more appropriate here — long, but a good read, an interview with a “closeted” Christian professor:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-post-indiana-future-christian-religious-liberty-gay-rights/
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“I’m very worried,” he said, of events of the last week. “The constituency for religious liberty just isn’t there anymore.”
Like me, what unnerved Prof. Kingsfield is not so much the details of the Indiana law, but the way the overculture treated the law. “When a perfectly decent, pro-gay marriage religious liberty scholar like Doug Laycock, who is one of the best in the country — when what he says is distorted, you know how crazy it is.”
“Alasdair Macintyre is right,” he said. “It’s like a nuclear bomb went off, but in slow motion.” What he meant by this is that our culture has lost the ability to reason together, because too many of us want and believe radically incompatible things.
But only one side has the power. When I asked Kingsfield what most people outside elite legal and academic circles don’t understand about the way elites think, he said “there’s this radical incomprehension of religion.”
__________________________________
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Photo going around FB shows the KKK saluting a cross with the words superimposed: “All those in favor of renaming bigotry, prejudice, hate and discrimination ‘Religious Freedom’ raise your hands”
This narrative is so off the wall, but even some of my liberal Christian friends have “bought” it. As the professor says in the article I linked to above, it’s like a nuclear bomb went off in slow motion over this.
And people have literally just lost their heads.
It’s like we’re speaking different languages to each other anymore.
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Very disturbing, Donna. 😦
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The only people who rank higher on the Left than Gays are Muslims.
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