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Finally, to set the record straight, I am not really a Libertarian. I am a registered Republican, who votes for any Consitution Party candidate on the ballot... even if they are sometimes nutty.

God bless you, child. You're what's called a young moron. Or an active, dedicated Democrat.

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I don't have a link for this note because the evidence can be found in several posts on Andrew Sullivan's blog, but the depth of wickedness of the left (and Sullivan is as leftist as they come, no pun intended) can be seen in his little additions lately to his evil, mendacious criticisms of the Iraq war effort by hedging his bets saying that if things do afterall turn out OK (and if the overall strategic goal was a good one, which it is) it will be despite the U.S. military and U.S. initiative in it all and only solely because of the noble effort of the wonderful Iraqi people.

Following the descending arc of this little creep over the last several years is instructive in seeing, in some of the more subtle ways (obviously he's always been an unrepentant sodomist), just how depraved humanity is capable of being.

A related note: don't allow dictionaries to tell you that 'sodomy' means any unreproductive sexual act. Sodom was not destroyed by God because its citizens were indulging male/female oral sex...

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Hmm. I was going to write a note regarding the more raw, rough-hewn, respect-for-mystery and not having to explain everything if God doesn't Calvinism of Calvin himself vs. the Reformed scholastic theologians that came after, and how certain papist-moles pit the two...but...it made me sound like I was doing a bad impression of a lame intellectual, so... Personally, I have no problem with the scholastic Reformed theologians. I see poetry in scholastic type writing. Of course, I see the truth in the doctrines of grace in a way - more experiential - than most Calvinists do; and against that understanding I tend to find the post-Calvin Calvinists to be rather on-the-mark...(I mean the 17th century crew, for the most part)...

Calvin's work is the Everest, and Calvin himself has alot of the impressions and influence of the desert prophet in him... There's a rugged, deeper poetic mystery and inspiration in Calvin. He was connected to the same great ancient current of ideas and influence that a Homer and Socrates and Plutarch reside in that comes down through the ages (and flowed into the Renaissance). Call it the General Revelation, or the natural deep fountains and celestial pillars of God's common Revelation that includes all influences and that set a theologian potentially on a more ancient and strong foundation and gives him a deeper background. (Owen's somewhat disappointing railing against classical influences in his Biblical Theology is surprising, yet in context one can see what he's getting at, yet one can also see that he's devaluing influences that obviously made up a substanital part of his own education and made him the special theologian he became. It's actually Owen not at his best. He's saying in that book, in those passages, that he had the discernment to get something from such influences, but other people go off in wrong directions... Yeah, it's always like that, John...but don't deny to others what you benefited from yourself...)