by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 17, 2024 | Agnostic, Atheism, Atheist, Civil War, History, Middle America, Morality, Nationalism and Faith, Post Christian, Socialism
Twenty years ago, right after the Bush v Kerry election, we wrote a journal article, “A House Divided Against Itself,” about the state of our nation. It was specifically about the yawning divide that had opened up between the two parties, or more...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 18, 2024 | Bible, Education, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Morality, Progressives, Roman Catholic, Sola Scriptura
During the sixteenth-century battle between the reformers and the Roman Catholic church, the reformers developed the Five Solas which demonstrated their core beliefs in contrast to the Catholic Church from whom they were separating. The first of the five was Sola...
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 7, 2023 | Bible, Biblical Ethics, Christian exclusivity, context, Evangelical Left, Holiness, Immorality, Inerrancy, Liberal Left, Liberalism, Morality, mysticism, Political Correctness, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Salvation
No True Christian – Part One examined what basis there is for an assertion that a true Christian would or would not do certain things or behave in certain ways. By way of reminder, those who do make such assertions commit the No True Scotsman Fallacy. Knowing...
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 | Jun 15, 2023 | Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Divided Families, False Teacher, Gnostic, Hypocrites, Immorality, Morality, mysticism, Sexual prosperity gospel, Sin, Spiritual Abuse
“Tennessee Nut Picking” describes a linguistic tactic used to paint an opposing group in the worst possible light. The accuser names the most outrageous person from the other side as representative of the whole group. For example, would it be true or...
