Kramer & Kerry

Here is the news if you have not been following what Kramer did.

Rage from the “Religion of Peace”

Why are people calling this religion a “religion of peace?” Call it for what it is.

The Pope’s arrival in Turkey caused havoc.

Pope Benedict XVI is set to arrive in Turkey on Tuesday, and tensions are running high. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, wrote to Benedict: “Your life is in danger. You absolutely must not come to Turkey.” And several weeks ago, a Turk named Ibrahim Ak stood outside Italy’s consulate in Istanbul and fired a gun while proclaiming his desire to strangle the pope. As he was arrested, Ak shouted: “I am happy to be a Muslim!” He said that he hoped the Pope would decide not to come to Turkey, and that his actions would inspire other Turks to violence: “God willing, this will be a spark, a starter for Muslims … God willing, he will not come. If he comes, he will see what will happen to him.”

Turkish officials are trying to make sure nothing does. According to the Associated Press, they have “mobilized an army of snipers, bomb disposal experts and riot police, as well as navy commandos to patrol the Bosporus Straits flowing through Istanbul.” However, Meliha Benli Altunisik, a professor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, questioned whether such precautions were necessary at all: “Will there be protests? Yes, of course. But I cannot take seriously the notion that he is in physical danger. He will rather be ignored.”

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ETS / SBL

Denny Burk on the recent election of Bruce Ware as the next ETS President and the amendment of the bylaws to reflect better of the Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy. He gave some update on his paper as well.

The A-Blog blogged on James Spiegel: The Epistemic Ramifications of Behavior; H. Chris Ross: Promoting Evangelical Faith Through New Media; Brett Kunkle: Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church; Erik Thoennes: Laughing Through Tears.

Brett Kunkle’s paper at ETS on the Emerging Church.

Scot McKnight on ETS/SBL.

On the Emergent conversation.

Bibliobloggers @SBL – Codex; Targuman; Biblishe Ausbildung; BlueCord; SansBlogue.

Evangelical Textual Criticism on Live from SBL in Washington

United States Marine Corps is 231 years old

Today the US Marine is 231 years old.

To Jim and Nate, my Marine for Christ brothers in the church. Thank you for serving your country well!

Garden Guy and the homosexuals

The “tolerants” being intolerant again.

Landscape business Garden Guy refuses to work for a homosexual couple in Houston. Sabrina Farber, a co-owner of Garden Guy politely and honestly wrote in her email to the “couple” that “I need to tell you that we cannot meet with you because we choose not to work for homosexuals.”

This email is now all over the world. The owner of Garden Guy are receiving death threats by the those who condemned the Christians for being intolerant. They even received threats of sodomizing their children!

These are all from the very people who are “tolerant” and “diverse.”

Beheaded girls were Ramadan ‘trophies’

Update: The “three Christian high school girls who were beheaded” was a Ramadan “trophy” by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists, a court heard yesterday.

The girl’s severed heads were dumped in plastic bags in their village in Indonesia’s strife-torn Central Sulawesi province, along with a handwritten note threatening more of such attacks.

The note read: “Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female…“

Partial Birth Abortion

The Supreme Court meets today to hear the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, passed by Congress and signed by the President in 2003.

What is partial-birth abortion? Pictures paint thousands of words-

Many people are “offended” by pictures of aborted babies. Why?

Why are they not angry at the murderer of the babies or the system that allows it?

 

The pro-death rhetoric is always the same. The baby in the mother’s womb is not really a baby?

 

When does a baby becomes a “real” baby? Or what constitutes a “real” baby?

 

Some would say consciousness! I would say, “Can we kill the drunkards then?”

 

Some would say no sense of understanding! I would say, “Can we kill all the idiots in our high schools then?”

 

The bottom line is this, it is an inconvenient issue. It becomes an inconvenience to humans and therefore it is the humans who would exterminate them for the sake of their own pleasure, right?

Don’t click if you don’t want to see the parents of this dead baby (through partial birth abortion).

NRLC’s Douglas Johnson on National Review Online: “Is it really a partial birth?” November 8, 2006.

NRLC Media Advisory: Partial-Birth Abortion Returns to the U.S. Supreme Court November 7, 2006.

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act — Misconceptions and Realities, by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson.

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Review Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act February 21, 2006.

“Partial-Birth Abortion on Trial,” by Cathy Cleaver Ruse, Esq. (Shocking sworn testimony by those who perform partial-birth abortions).

Concerned Women for America exposes Plan B (8/22/06)

Plan B – Press Release by Concerned Women for America (8/24/06)

Family Research Counsel on Plan B overview

Plan B “Morning After Pill” causes early abortions

 

Politics and Post-Election Blues

Bush’s Presidency Ended Last Night – John Podhoretz, New York Post
Why Republicans Got Shellacked – Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
GOP’s Error: Ceding the Middle – Ronald Brownstein, Los Angeles Times
Return of Economic Nationalism – Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Trib-Review
GOP Coalition Fractured by Opposition to War – Susan Page, USA Today
Congress Gets A Case Of The Blues – Chuck Todd, National Journal
Conservatism Didn’t Lose, Republicanism Did – Phil Klein, Amer. Spectator
Smackdown! By Independents & Moderates – Dick Meyer, CBS News.com
The Pelosi Years Begin – Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
Strategy Shift Likely for Bush – Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post
Bush and His Iraq Policy Were Big Losers Tuesday – John Dickerson, Slate
Abandoning Iraq – David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
Payback Time: Who the Dems Will Target? – Rhonda Schwartz, ABC News
ACORN Finally Comes Under Scrutiny – John Fund, Opinion Journal
Stranger Than Fiction – Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics
All Slander All the Time – John Ellis, Wall Street Journal
Eyes Turn to 2008 Presidential Prize – Edward Luce & Holly Yeager, FT
A Chance for the Democrats – Chicago Tribune
The Voters’ Message – Washington Post
How the House Was Lost – New York Post
The Democratic House – New York Times

Red alert – attack the Americans

Hamas’ military wing called on Muslims around the world to attack American targets.

Muslim men charged for Beheading 3 Christian girls

Last year, a group of men ambushed four girls Saturday as they walked to their Christian school. One of the three survived with serious wounds. The school had been burned down during a previous round of sectarian conflict and later rebuilt. The police said the heads of the three victims were discovered by local residents some distance from the bodies. The surviving student told the police that there had been six assailants wearing masks and black shirts. The victims were identified as Yarni Sambue (15) Interesia Morangke (16) and Alfita Paulina (19). The survivor has been identified as Noviana Malewa, who is currently in intensive care at a nearby hospital. The bodies of the girls were left at the site of the attack near a cocoa plantation. The heads were found at separate locations two hours later by residents. One of the heads was found near a church.

They have found the men responsible for the beheadings. Three Muslim men have been charged in the beheadings of three girls in an Indonesian province filled with sectarian tension. More news here, here, here and here.