Searching Prejudicial Souls
Protests. Debates. Calls for reform. Soul searching. The Zimmerman/Martin case has ignited many fires–from simplistic objections to the verdict (which given the charge vs. evidence could hardly have turned out any other way) to profound observations by even the nation’s president and others regarding the subtle biases and prejudices that linger. It’s easy for white people or others (Zimmerman is half Peruvian) to wonder why blacks protest at the verdict which came by clear adherence to the law as it related to the facts. It’s easy for black people to grow enraged at the whole system that appears okay on…
How Far Does The LGBT Agenda Go?
The gay marriage juggernaut is winning out. And it’s done so well that opinions across the country are changing astonishingly fast. But I don’t think for a minute that the agenda will stop there. The Los Angeles Times ran an article on why bisexuals are mostly still in the closet. Even gays tend not to favor them: You never know whom they’ll sleep with. Then we see this smiling family. The mom is a bisexual activist. Her husband seems okay with it. I suppose it’s a free country. But then they have their one (yes, one)-year-old son cheering them on…
What We Call News
What is news? Tragedies and scary things usually, because that’s what gets peoples attention. But with billions of people to have things go wrong, what gets reported? The tragedy and bizarre mystery of the Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco has had much headline attention. And it was a big plane. But buried at the bottom of my newspaper’s page 7 was another airplane crash the next day. This one in Alaska. An “air taxi” for people who live in remote places. All ten people on board were killed–five times as many as on the Asiana flight. But it wasn’t…
A Christian’s Dual Citizenship
As an American I understand the logic behind the rapid changes happening in my country. Whether I like them or not, they are understandable results of a modernized Western nation steeped in individualism and wealth. People confuse privileges and wants with rights. We hear people speaking the language of rights, but it’s often times more an issue of getting what they want. Same-sex marriage is a glaring case in point. But people also do all kinds of sexually immoral things that are legal. And yes, according to the Constitution and it’s amendments, it can be construed that they have their rights…
Why Non-Westerners Hate Westerners
Ever wonder why non-Westerners seem to hate Westerners? C.S. Doemner quotes from Meic Pearse’s new book: Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of Global Rage. To generalize a global phenomenon: Westerners are increased perceived by non-Westerners as “rich, technologically sophisticated, economically and politically dominant, morally contemptible barbarians.” Westerners are Tweet
