I always enjoyed listening to Boice on Family radio. I did not listen to Mr Harold Camping, but there were programs on it, that I did listen to.
those Dreamers© that are flooding into America do a lot of critical thinking and theorhetical modeling. I expect good things for our future! skyscrapers and Mars missions- like the Jetsons!
Someone whom we know absolutely nothing about can be so popular without ever saying the word....
We have been Vannitized again by Obamameister
Wow, I wish I could post this on facebook.
Christians would be a good start - even better if all folks developed the habit of actually thinking - and thinking things through.
“You see, if we do not have a perspective on life that is higher than what we can touch, taste, and see, we cannot appreciate that life is not an accident of evolution, but a gift of God and so ought to be preserved.’
Worth repeating
Excellent post! Yes, I can agree with how this applies to modern religion on TV verses getting your butt in the pew on Sundays.
But I’d submit this applies across the board to everything from our history to understanding the Constitution.
I recall in school being taught something call, ‘critical thinking skills.’ I do not believe those skills are taught any longer.
Just a comment about Vanna White. I’ve never met her, but years ago as a chaplain we had 2 of our soldiers killed when we did Just Cause in Panama.
We planned a memorial service after we returned to the states, and we planned a large memorial stone and park at unit headquarters not just for these 2, but for all who had lost their lives in our relatively new unit.
Vanna White sent us a nice check. She had gone to high school with one of our two comrades who had just died. Moved by the memorials, totally unsolicited, she responded.
Her card was wordy, so that might just be her personality. It was a simple thanks for his service, his friendship, and his memory.
That’s what I know about Vanna White.
Just a comment about Vanna White. I’ve never met her, but years ago as a chaplain we had 2 of our soldiers killed when we did Just Cause in Panama.
We planned a memorial service after we returned to the states, and we planned a large memorial stone and park at unit headquarters not just for these 2, but for all who had lost their lives in our relatively new unit.
Vanna White sent us a nice check. She had gone to high school with one of our two comrades who had just died. Moved by the memorials, totally unsolicited, she responded.
Her card was NOT wordy, so that might just be her personality. It was a simple thanks for his service, his friendship, and his memory.
That’s what I know about Vanna White.
Boice makes a logical error here. The point if the research is not that humans are no better than animals but that the tendency for such acts exists in many species including humans. A point to be made is that only humans have laws against such acts and severely punish such transgressors.
Thirty years later, I would submit, it's worse. Amusement seems almost benign in an age of near universal deception as presented in all of mass media.
Thanks for posting this.
Good article, really. Too bad he didn’t take it even further. But, for thinking people, we should be able to, ourselves. Without “thinking” the church has taken sin in through the cloak of inclusiveness. We cannot judge the sinner, etc. We have listened and reacted to the sinners’ version of Scripture, them taking it out of context, and we not knowing it well enough to challenge back, have accepted many of the worldly tenets as God’s real character and we should adapt. No wonder the church has lost its voice. It doesn’t recognize the voice of its own God.
I know a lot of people no longer attend church, for one reason or another. They watch something on TV and move on as if that is all that is required. However, the local church is only as effective as its members are willing to follow after God’s leading, so if they do not participate in a local congregation for fellowship and for opportunities for ministry, then the whole community loses out. That seems to be happening more and more. Local churches drying up, people watching someone on TV, sending their money there, instead, and their community becoming more pagan and ungodly.
Radios in cars.
I am serious. People get in the car and the first thing they do is turn on the radio. The silence of a car ride is one of the few things people can do that leaves time for thinking things through.
Try it.
Just turn the radio off.
No, you are not going to turn into Plato (and who would want to?) but you will be surprised at how much thinking and pondering you will do.
Theology is what I sometimes call an "armchair sport". It's a academic debate between gentlemen, engaged in while smoking cigars, sitting in high-backed chairs and surrounded by old books. For me, the thinking and the debate itself is the sport. Theology exercises and disciplines the intellect, with the intended goal of "taking every thought captive to obey Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5). I'm glad to discuss theology with anyone willing to don the requisite smoking jacket, to pour their favorite libation, and to join me in the library to engage in the manly sport of theology. IMO theology is important. But when we doff the jacket and go out into the world, we should leave our debating back in the library. Walking around outside, I pray that our common obedience to God, and our common affection for each other, will look as one to a watching world.
“Theology is the queen of the sciences and all other disciplines are her handmaidens.” ― R. C. Sproul“He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.” ― Jonathan Edwards
I loved listening to Boice weekly and was saddened by his death some 14 years ago.
In response to the thoughts of comparing human behavior with animal behavior, perhaps we should consider how God used such examples.
The purpose of the living sacrifices of a bull or sheep, or fatted calf, wasn’t some pagan ritual, but rather to manifest to those performing the sacrifice how the animal violently sought to retain their life. The value of life itself was paramount. It taught a lesson about how violently volition responded to perfect justice as demanded by perfect righteousness. It pointed to the Cross and the how great a gift was the sacrificial atonement provided by Christ.
Ted Koppel was the problem, not Vanna White.
The media despised Vanna White for some reason.