DPD responding to reports of a F shot. DEMS also enrte. Crocuslawn/Griggs on #Detroit's west side. pic.twitter.com/C12RHCY3bR
— Detroit Scanner³¹³ (@DetroitScanner) August 25, 2016
Forty-five years ago the Felton family lived just a few doors away from that intersection. The gunshot victim died.
God’s Word is settled. A brief video from my @SBTS convocation message yesterday. https://t.co/pdtxt8iON4
— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) August 24, 2016
Do watch that video; it’s the portion of yesterday’s convocation address that Mohler is proud of, that he wishes to preserve, that he believes is important and tweeted about in order to draw attention to it.
To grasp the intellectual dishonesty of it needs some understanding of the state of Biblical scholarship. There are, literally, hundreds upon hundreds of well-documented textual variations amongst the ancient manuscripts. What is more, there is no translation of them which isn’t susceptible of honest criticism. To evade these difficulties in light of the claim that the Bible is inerrant, Southern Baptists take recourse to something called the original autographs; it is they which are inerrant, not the copied and translated texts subsequently produced by fallible humans. The inerrant version of the Gospel of Mark, for instance, is the text produced by Mark’s own hand (Whomever Mark was; nobody knows.), and nobody has ever seen that text. The oldest extant version of Mark is a copy produced ca. 150 A.D., roughly 80-years after that Gospel was written.
In other words, no living human being has ever laid eyes upon the inerrant version of Mark, or can reasonably expect to. The identical thing may be said of every other book of the Bible. In further words, and on the terms of their own (tap-dancing) evasions, no living human being, including Albert the Pious his Very Self, has ever read the Bible.
Which doesn’t, notice, stop them from mobilizing ignoramuses to demand public policies based upon their fraud. Bah. The cynicism reeks.
Former pastor at Manchester church accused of sexually assaulting girl
Steven Jesmer was fired from his position at the Dialogue Christian Church on Pine Street after allegations surfaced that he assaulted a girl under the age of 16.
Abuse Victims Propose $80 Million Settlement From Archdiocese
Survivors of priest abuse say the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul can contribute more to victims than it has proposed in bankruptcy court.
The archdiocese proposed $65 million to go into a trust fund in a May filing.
Louisville archdiocese sued over ‘erotic’ photos
Parents of a young boy who claim their son was inappropriately photographed by a Roman Catholic priest, now a convicted sex offender, are suing the Archdiocese of Louisville for negligence.
Former Joey Merlino mob associate Robert ‘Boston Bob’ Luisi now a Christian minister
They called him “Boston Bob.”
In the late 1990s, he was the Philadelphia mob’s point man in Beantown, generating tens of thousands of dollars through bookmaking, loansharking, extortion and drug dealing.
In Hawaii, even the leadership of the Republican Party is fleeing from the Republican nominee for Congress.
The chair of the Hawaii Republican Party is urging party members to disavow the candidacy of the GOP nominee for the 2nd Congressional District, which represents the neighbor islands and rural Oahu.
“I want it understood by the general public and the media that the recent inflammatory comments made by candidate for Congress (CD2) Angela Kaaihue do not represent the views, values, or the sentiments of our Party and its members,” Fritz Rohlfing said in a statement issued late Friday.
And what did Ms. Kaalhue say?
And:
Kudos to the Republican leadership for backing away — but how on earth did somebody so odious, so racist, so fanatical, get nominated in the first place? Ms. Kaalhue is who the Republicans have become; they probably just didn’t realize until it was too late that she’s too stupid to hide what she really thinks.
