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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: hypocrisy

The Nothing That Is

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
—Billy Graham
I’m not talking about unbelief. I don’t even think that statement is true anymore (the [...]

Shomer Shabbos!

I am forever shomer shabbos.
(Shabbos, Donnie, is the Jewish day of rest.) But shomer? Guardian. Defender. Preserver.
Walter is, in fact, a Pharisee. He talks big about defending his day of rest, upholding 3000 years of beautiful tradition (from Moses to Sandy Koufax,) but when the test comes, he drops his [...]

In the Same Way They Persecuted the Prophets

This statement has gotten some scorn.

I didn’t get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn’t have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
Mike Huckabee
Why is this so reviled? He says that government doesn’t have [...]