Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Every Halloween, he comes out of hiding: William Peter Blatty will emerge from his burrow, the stately Bethesda home where he lives with his wife of 33 years, to watch the 7:30 p.m. showing on Halloween. Afterward he will submit to questions from audience members. Blatty will bear the cross of his mammoth success, which …
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For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. In the course of our discussion we have made reference to a lot of history surrounding the original Arian controversy. It took nearly a century to sort things out on this. Organisationally the Watchtower is separate from the Arian churches of long ago. …
It's finally boiled over to the point where our sycophantic media can't ignore it: The breach became dramatic over the past week. Last Friday, Saudi Arabia refused to take its seat on the United Nations Security Council, in what Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi intelligence chief, described as “a message for the U.S., not …
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And HHS Secretary Sibelius is on the hot seat: Embattled Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify before Congress next week about the botched rollout of ObamaCare’s insurance exchanges after rejecting GOP demands to appear this week. The House Energy and Commerce Committee confirmed Monday night that Sebelius would meet with the committee …
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He's made quite the splash at GAFCON II: The Archbishop of Canterbury offered his qualified personal endorsement to Gafcon today, telling the congregation of All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi his vision for the future of the Anglican Communion was of a Bible-based church dedicated to mission and evangelism – goals shared by the Gafcon movement …
For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. Having cleared up the matter of the Son being “created” or more informatively “generated” we must turn to the problem of the Son being God and subordinate to the Father at the same time. Like the generation of the Son, this is a …
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Even an old Democrat pro like Leon Panetta is getting discouraged with the current Occupant: Then, to Obama. "This president -- he's extremely bright, he's extremely able, he's somebody who I think certainly understands the issues, asks the right questions and I think has the right instincts about what needs to be done for the …
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Recently a friend of mine posted the following on Facebook with the following caption: "He says Vladimir Lenin, founder of Communism in Russia, believed socialized medicine was the key to a socialist government". To which I added the following: At the other end of the Soviet Union, the health care system--such as it was--was a …
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Her series on this is a little different: I could sum it up: 1, I haven’t spoken out against gay marriage because I don’t see it damaging marriage any more than straight people have already done. 2, my spiritual tradition has found by experience, over millennia, that sex apart from hetero marriage damages one’s spiritual …
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For an introduction, explanation and links to the entire work, click here. We have come a long way through a complicated part of church history to stand where we do. We should note, however, that our main purpose is not a history lesson but to get at the truth of a very important part of …
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