Lillback's Messiah

https://georgewashingtonbible.com/pages/foreword-dr-peter-a-lillback

While perusing the nationalist idolatry and filth being promoted on some other Evangelical sites, I encountered this gem from PCA pastor Peter Lillback, who is also president of Westminster Seminary - to that institution's discredit and shame. Lillback has been known to me for many years as he is a leading champion of the syncretism I refer to as Christo-Americanism. This forward from the 'George Washington Bible' testifies to this.

A Pilgrimage to the Altar of Humanism

I picked up Timothy Egan's A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of Faith, because I have enjoyed such travel books in the past. Years ago I read many of HV Morton's travel works, particularly those in the 1930's and enjoyed the narrative, historical information, and the style of writing. Morton was not a Christian (that I could see) but was clearly interested in Christianity and its place in history.

Trueman's Desecration of Christian Sensibility

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/02/desecration-at-st-patricks-cathedral

Is Trueman still a Protestant? One is baffled by his line of argument. Historically Protestants would have viewed the Roman Catholic temple as a blasphemy and its rites as a desecration of the New Testament. What Trueman is arguing about is sacral categories in terms of society - and who controls the symbols and sacred spaces.

The Mastriano Campaign: From Sacrilege to Blasphemy

An Associated Press story ran in Friday's paper on 'Contrasts in faith' in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. The article echoed a point that many others have already made – that Doug Mastriano's political rallies are being blended with what must be described as an Evangelical-style worship service.

Deluded Populations and Sacral Propaganda

It's evident to all in the West that Russian media twists and distorts the Ukraine War narrative. The state obfuscates the extent of the war, downplays its intensity, ignores and spins civilian deaths and in general misleads its public as to the nature, cause, and goals of its policies.

In addition to this and to the outrage of many, Vladimir Putin the Russian president quotes Scripture and draws parallels, even blasphemous comparisons between the 'sacrifices' made by Russian soldiers and the death of Christ. He presents a picture in which the Russian public is led to believe that God is with them and their cause. He stands by their troops and their cause is just and righteous.

Indeed it is sickening and could even be described as evil.

The Latin Mass and Catholic Traditionalists

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2021/07/16/pope-bans-latin-masses-from-parish-churches_f9ff66d0-9af2-4e31-ae59-4378f75f9379.html

The move by Francis was surprising but it also makes sense. The anti- Vatican II Traditionalist movement is growing within Catholicism – particularly in the West and it has allied itself with Right-wing political forces that seek to counter Francis on almost every front.

Chimeras: Contra Naturam

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/03/first-human-monkey-chimera-raises-concern-among-scientists

Science is on the cusp of great change. There are social forces holding it back but given they have no ethical foundations or anchors, the flood that is coming will prove overwhelming. All it will take is for someone to poke a hole in the dyke and it will quickly collapse. This was proven true with regard to the ethics of sexuality. Science isn't any different.