by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 29, 2024 | Atheism, Atheist, Death, Devil, Gospel, Hell
As weird as it may seem, life’s ultimate questions are often posed in rock-and-roll lyrics. Consider, for example, the 1969 hit, “And When I Die,” by the band, Blood, Sweat and Tears. Like so many other poets, story-tellers, and just average human beings have...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 13, 2024 | Atheist, Dads, Discipleship, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Prayer
How does one learn to be a father? There really isn’t a “father training school” per se. Like so many things in life, it mostly happens by observation and imitation. Some people are blessed with great fathers, uncles, or other male role models, while others do not...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 11, 2024 | Ambassador, Atheism, Atheist, Despair, Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Morality, Morality Tale, Nietzsche, Paganism, Richard Dawkins, Social tyranny, Tom Holland
Succumbing to evil is most often a gradual process. This is true for an individual, a group, a nation, and even a culture. Often, transformation is imperceptible to those being transformed – until the rot in their soul is too advanced to be easily reversed. In William...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 28, 2023 | Abortion, Atheist, Child Sacrifice, Darwinism, Depravity, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Paganism, Post Christian, Sacrifice
What are the signs of a culture advancing from basic survival mode to a developing culture? Is it an alphabet and written language? Is it farming and improved technologies for higher quality and more productive farming? Is it industrialization? Very likely, each of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 13, 2023 | Atheist, Biblical Ethics, Darwinism, Infanticide, Intolerance, Morality, Racism, Rape, Redemption, Sin, Slavery, Social tyranny, Tolerance, Virtue
Where do morals come from? Are they objective or subjective? Are their origins from God or are they somehow a result of evolution, a byproduct of Social Darwinism? Our answers to these questions largely determine how we live with and treat other humans and often even...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 29, 2022 | Atheist, Biblical Ethics, Cancel Culture, Child Sacrifice, Contemplative Prayer, Culture War, Deity of Christ, Enneagram, Greek Mythology, Immorality, Judaism, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Paganism, Panentheism, ProLife, Richard Rohr, Tolerance, Virtue
The First Century Roman Empire was pluralistic, relativistic, and very spiritual. The Greeks and Romans shared about 15 or 16 gods and goddesses, worshipped under different names.1See “Greek Gods and their Roman Counterparts” for listing, descriptions, and...
