Well, yet again with another Pithless Thoughts comic. This one made me chuckle because of the Episcopal Assembly currently going on. I am a convert; I admit it. And, I understand the convert tendency to be looking not simply for the Church of the Apostles but also for total doctrinal agreement by all involved and […]
Rand Paul, the Tea Party and Libertarianism
There has been a lot of furor over the remarks by Rand Paul recently. Needless to say, defenders of Rand Paul immediately charged that it was “gotcha” journalism. This is the favorite political catch phrase when you have uttered something that turned out to be politically unwise. Unfortunately for Mr. Paul, he has a record […]
Posting suspended for a couple of days
My stepfather passed away around midnight yesterday. My father died when I was seven, and my mother remarried a few years later, so he has been the “dad” in my life since then. I spent all of yesterday involved in the inevitable set of rounds one must make, church, funeral home, cemetery, etc. Now I […]
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 […]
Anti-rapture comic
Below is a copy of an announcement sent to Father Orthoduck by Fr. Huw. Neither Father Orthoduck nor Fr. Huw agree with the viewpoint in the announcement, however, Father Orthoduck will be discussing this in the next day or so. It is important to note that the comic below is a secular reaction against a […]
They will insist on growing up, won’t they?
I can remember that when our children were young, there was a big debate in Evangelical circles as to whether you ought to say anything to your children about Santa Claus. The Easter Bunny was very clearly a no, no. The Tooth Fairy usually did not come under as much fire, but that is because […]
Get thee to a monastery
Hamlet to Ophelia: Get thee to a nunnery, why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners? Men might well dread, and very reasonably, This life on earth to lose, my own dear brother, If this alone were living, and no other. “But there’s a better life in other place, That never shall be lost, nay, […]
Bad Book of Revelation pun
Sigh, it is a horrible set of puns. That is what makes them so good. The strip above starts out with a nice Latino pun and then move on to a pun from the Book of Revelation. I have no smart comment on the above strip. But, I have a secret to confess. I enjoy […]
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