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If the dictator is perfectly benevolent and infinitely wise, then dictatorship is to be preferred over democracy.
If the dictator rules in a laissez-faire fashion regarding his subjects’ free moral agency, no one would rebel against him; there would be no motive for revolutionary regime change.
If the dictator had omnipotent power, but only ever chose to [...]

There are prophecies in the Bible which indicate that a time is coming in which powerful religio-political forces will persecute a non-conformist minority, attempting to intimidate them into submission, and eventually using deadly force against them. I agree with my Seventh-day Adventist Church in its application of one such prophecy to the United States [...]

House Republicans are trying to pass a bill that establishes the United States as a Christian nation. Their tactic is to rewrite the early history of our nation to look like it was a band of Christian pilgrims carving out a new empire of Christendom in the New World. Or something.
The Nation article [...]

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

For the less Biblically literate of jimblog readers, that whacko peacenik pinko hippie Eisenhower is referencing Jesus’ own words [...]

UPDATE DECEMBER 16, 2007:
Two websites to help you analyze the Republican Party’s love affair with the Christian fundamentalist electorate:

theocracywatch.org
onlinejournal.com

And the online edition of Liberty Magazine, the news journal of the Religious Liberty department of my own Seventh-day Adventist denomination:
libertymagazine.org
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UPDATE DECEMBER 15, 2007:
This is the feeling of more and more in the Republican Party: Christianity is [...]

Isaiah 53:3-6 in The Message:
“We’ve all gone our own way, done our own thing…”
That phrasing…
Stark individualism is not good for a person. It is devastating for a community, for a society. The man, or nation, embracing it, forgets how connected all men are designed to be. Alone, divided off from each [...]

It’s indigenous people’s day.
Private property is an unknown, unused doctrine in the cultures of indigenous peoples. Common land, available and accessible to all, for all survival and spiritual needs, extended virtually to the door flap of a family’s tent.
Everyone “owned” all the land and its resources, and no one owned any subdivision of it.
The land [...]