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I've known some violent people who are not fearful, aren't ignorant, and aren't superstitious. They're simply predatory. It would be nice if a bit of education could fix everybody. Some people have chosen to not be fixed.

No more than anyone could seriously suggest that religion causes violence.

"They will bomb your cities to dust and then come and offer your children chocolate and you loans for rebuildin. Do not be mistaken, they are still Americans, and that is why we have to fight them." From an old science fiction novel.

On various issues, various politicians in various states have agitated for their various states to rescind their votes for various amendments that are in the Constitution. Valid or silly waste of time? I'm going for silly waste of time on two precedents. 1: In ordinary legislation, it cannot...

To continue with what you wrote, the temple must not only be designed, it must be built.

Or he just staged it.

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are...

God is able to judge. God can judge and say "That is a cow."; "That is not a cow." Judgment. Entirely non-legalistic. "You wish to love." vs. "You refuse to love."--it's a judgment. "Judge" also means "discern" or "sort". It is not just the legalistic form of judgment.

We are not all Protestants nor are we all the legalistic flavor of Catholic. Stop presuming the worst and tarring us all with one brush. There is no "one act" that guarantees entry into "the kingdom of heaven" or definitely prevents it. There is no "free pass" in my Church, no matter what the...

From my perspective, the understanding of science among the vast majority of progressives and those who claim to espouse science is indistinguishable from superstition. It might have something to do with me actually being a published scientist. The progressives are so annoying naive in their...

I think that "Shriners Hospital for Children" would be a bigger draw than "Justin Timberlake", anyway.

That depends on whose stories you believe. There are those who will cling like death to the tale that Adam was the first Freemason, not just metaphorically but literally. Others will claim unbroken continuity to Tubal-Cain, instead. Then there are claims of unbroken continuity from the...

Well, at least it isn't "The state of being the subject of a Limerick", although it seems that either could be as ridiculous.

Ask 10 Master Masons that, get 15 distinct and contradictory reponses. Does that answer your question?

I just came up with it. I do that sort of thing all the time. When one has to make a living writing about neuroscience in a way that keeps people from falling asleep, one learns "pithy".

Traditionalist progressivism. "Our changes are the best changes and should never be changed."

In the Middle East, the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox are quite close, although Rome is also on generally good terms with the Oriental Orthodox over there, too. That being said, local authorities have traditionally played off the Roman/Uniate, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox divisions...

Start with something like judo. I'm not joking. Judo builds amazing foundations. Never have done parkour, but I've seen it, and there's a lot of tucking and rolling moves, and it's a good idea to also have safer falling become a conditioned reflex. Most useful martial art in my entire life has...

So what in the UK damped the obsession with "higher degrees" in the 19th century that gave rise to the various appendant bodies such as Shrine? Or is Rampant Appendancy pretty much an American phenomenon with little expression outside the USA?

To answer this: God isn't silent. We choose not to listen to Him. Look at Scripture, anyway. How many of those within it actually had a "face-to-face"? Before the New Testament, it was a very small number. In the New Testament, many more, but to His human face, and it was made plain that this...