A great piece.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20040923.shtml
I think this commentary is weak but I’ll post it anyway. Fortunately (or maybe not depending on your point of view), I have an article that addresses the same issues appearing in Again which should be out this week. I can’t post it here however until October 5. I take a different approach than what Dr. Bouteneff offers.
http://www.oca.org/pages/news/news.asp?ID=660
Dr. Peter C. Bouteneff
Americans are approaching an important election this fall. All presidential elections are important, but few have been this close or this polarized. Those of us who seek to live and act in a way that is consistent with the life and theology of the Orthodox Church do well to reflect upon how we will act on November 2. Some Orthodox I know believe that the only way an Orthodox Christian could possibly vote is Republican/Conservative. Others whom I know have exactly the opposite impression. Where do we find ourselves in the political landscape today? There may not be a single answer for all Orthodox Christians, but we can at least clarify the questions.
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September 26, 2004
Feast of St. John the Evangelist
For three and a half days the slain bodies of God’s two faithful witnesses will lie unburied, we are told, “in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified” (Revelation 11:8-9). The biblical prophets wrote of Sodom (Isaiah 1:10; 3:9) and Egypt (Ezekiel 23:3,8,19,27) as metaphors for rebellious societies, but it is the joining of these two images in Revelation that seems especially significant.
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By KEVIN McGILL
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Saturday banning same-sex marriages and civil unions, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, the amendment was winning approval with 78 percent of the vote, and support for it was evident statewide. Only in New Orleans, home to a politically strong gay community, was the race relatively close, and even there the amendment was winning passage. Turnout statewide appeared to be about 27 percent of Louisiana’s 2.8 million voters, somewhat low for a state election.
Read the entire article on the My Way website.
It looks like Rather did it before. Why is this important? Because it shaped perceptions that are false.
It’s a bit wordy and self-conciously clever, but Jonah Goldberg’s point (see article) that the CBS stonewalling on the forged documents represents the end of the dominance of big media is accurate I think. The days of big media hegemony are over.
For those who remain confused about whether the terror perpetrated at Beslan was evil…
They Knifed Babies, They Raped Girls
Nothing justifies or excuses this. No “cause” can explain or soften the brutality displayed. In Orthodox theology evil has no ontological reality, it does not exist as an entity unto itself. It cannot be rationalized or explained. It can only be named. Evil is moral chaos, represented in scripture as the swirling waters that drown life. (Now we may begin to understand what Christ entering the waters at baptism is really about.) Beslan is complete and utter moral chaos, a depravity drawn from the dark nights of Dachau, Lubyanka, or the killing fields of Cambodia.
The blog Dawn Patrol takes a look at Planned Parenthood’s What Teens Should KnowAbout Sex—And When They Should Know It on Teenwire, PP’s sex-ed site for teens. They defend such things as anal sex for thirteen year old girls. What clear thinking parent would want PP having anything to do with their kids?
A schoolgirl who survived the Chechen terrorist massacre. The school was chosen because of the large number of Orthodox Christians who attended it.