Yes, Father Orthoduck is a huge Mythbusters fan! There are several sayings that have come from that show that are favorites of Father Orthoduck: Failure is always an option. I reject your reality and substitute my own. Jamie wants big boom. Am I missing a eye brow? Well there’s your problem! If I had any […]
Neither England nor Algeria score, a scoreless tie
Incredible! England and Algeria tied yesterday in their group World Soccer game. [For those of you expecting serious Orthodox postings on days of important World Soccer games, uhm, you might be disappointed.] This means that the USA is actually in second place in their group with Slovenia being in first place. It also means that […]
USA and Slovenia tie
USA 2 and Slovenia 2 Who would have thought it? Actually more than one commentator thought that the USA had won the game, except our third goal was taken away from us by the referee. As usual, this will lead to a lot of debates as to whether there ought to be some type of […]
Apology to BP for being tough on them
In an astonishing move, U.S. Representative Joseph Barton of Texas, a Republican, apologized to BP executives for an Obama shake-down, as Barton called it. He criticizes Obama for his actions at yesterday’s meeting with BP in getting billions of dollars in restitution to fix and restore the Gulf of Mexico in regard to the oil […]
On kisses in the Orthodox Church
Father Orthoduck so appreciates Pithless Thoughts. One of the challenges facing converts to Orthodoxy is that we have this way of going around kissing everyone. You kiss when you first see someone. You kiss when you say goodbye. You kiss during the Kiss of Peace. And, sometimes, for no known reason, you kiss some more. […]
What were the voters thinking?
We have all read news stories where we wonder what people were thinking when . . . . Well, as we all know, the primary races in South Carolina this year were, to put it politely, rather full of garbage. Accusations of racism, claims of sexual relationships, slurs, verbal garbage piled so deep that it […]
Father Orthoduck needs to lose weight
It is Sunday night and I am tired. That is not unusual, it is my typical Sunday night condition. But, this cartoon got to me. There is enough of an American legalist Anabaptist in me to consider that the phrase that says that my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit may be a […]
Secular reaction to extreme, uhm, dispensationalism?
On May 18, Father Orthoduck published a publisher’s blurb on an anti-rapture secular comic. He commented that the secular comic is probably, in-part, a reaction to a certain strain of Christianity. Yesterday, a poster made the following comment: But the truth is that a virulent strain of Dispensationalism is so real and pervasive in American […]
Do secularists have a point about dispensationalists?
Some very interesting points were made by the people who commented on yesterday’s post. Let Father Orthoduck do some quotations. I don’t recognize the God they are talking about when they start the–if you want to go to heaven, you have to be just like me or else you will be caught in the tribulation […]
Dispensational theology and secular counter-reaction
Many Christians do not know the technical name for the theology that is behind the Left Behind series of books. It is called dispensational theology or dispensationalism. While there are a couple of types of dispensationalism, here is a reasonable definition: Dispensationalism is a Protestant evangelical tradition based on a biblical hermeneutic that sees a […]
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