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Friday, December 21, 2007

Homeschool Family Flees Persecution in Utah

I just read an article found on WorldNetDaily.com with a horrifying testimony to the tyranny of government officials in the US.

From the article, citing a similar situation in Germany, and quoting the officials there:

"The minister of education does not share your attitudes toward so-called homeschooling," said a government letter in response. "... You complain about the forced school escort of primary school children by the responsible local police officers. ... In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement."

Read the rest of the article here.

~ In Christ, John.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Leaders Command the Language

The leaders of our society command the language. Homophobic is a word developed by anti-christians to attack those of us who are anti-sodomy. Through use of language, the world defines us as afraid of man. The issue isn't a fear of man, but a fear of God. (Should that make us theophobic?) We're all familiar with the media's use of words to manipulate and slant the verbal picture.

Closer to home for filmmakers, on a much less volatile issue, is the term 'graphic novels'. Fifty years ago, it was understood that comic books were silly, inconsequential form of art, primarily written for children, or at least childish individuals.

But today, a generation of people wrapped in the world of fantasy, have renamed comic books as 'Graphic Novels', trying to redeem their unbalanced love affair with non-truth.

I have seen an illutrated version of Pilgrims Progress in the form of a comic book, and though the imagery couldn't add a whit to the brilliant words of John Bunyan, it was helpful for beginning readers in our family. So I'm not against the comic book format as a legitimate form of storytelling, but I am against verbal tomfoolery to hide the shamefulness of indulging in a glorified coloring book addiction.

As society progresses further into the hollywood frenzy, we lose not only sentence structure (it's like, totally gone from here, so right!), but we also forfeit any transcendental meaning to our words. No longer does the word 'awesome' have the power it did in the 17'th century. We are defiling the English language with meaningless nonsense.

As if speaking in tongues weren't bad enough, even when folks are trying to communicate properly, our vocabulary is so weightless we are forced to speak twice as long to say half as much.

It's time that Christians became the leaders in language once again.

All this to say, Nathaniel Darnell just created a blog post to help us understand and command terminology.

Answering a Question on Biblical Patriarchy by Nathaniel Darnell.

I found this post to be refreshing, and very helpful. I hope you will as well.

~ In Christ, John.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

HeuMoore Family 3-Pack Now Available!

~ In Christ, John.