tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50850492009-10-06T01:56:09.238-05:00"Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later." - C.S. Lewis, <u>The Case for Christianity</u>Charles R. Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314369744988878572noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5085049.post-47968996877518559912007-03-23T11:39:00.000-05:002007-03-23T11:46:52.254-05:00

Recently watch this British documentary called "The Global Warming Swindle." I think it is an excellent documentary, and is a great counter-punch to Al Gore and his environmentalist minions. Two things in the video that stood out to me as all-important to the environmental change "discussion." First was the interview with the co-founder of GreenPeace and one of the reasons why he left the

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It is always good to refresh your memory on the proper use of NULL in SQL. This article from SQLServerCentral.Com, written by Michael Coles (author of Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide), is concise, well-written and packed with good info.

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I was looking up some information on baptism, and stumbled across the entry titled "Where did John baptize?" in the "Skeptics Annotated Bible" (http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/jordan.html). I do not normally respond to such sites, as it seems a waste of time for the most part. I've found that most people who call themselves "skeptics" are not as interested in finding the truth as they

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Janet, I understand your reluctance to spend a lot of time with email correspondence. I work full time and also attend school full time in the evenings. The course work I am pursuing demands much of my time - the majority of that is spent doing research and writing papers, so I am sympathetic with your time constraints. With that said, you are the one who "threw down the gauntlet," so to speak,

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Hello Charles Cherry,Janet sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Hello Charles, Having taken a deep breath and paused to analyze the situation, I feel the need to say a couple of things. First, as I noted at the beginning of our correspondence, because I don't have infinite time, I didn't undertake to enter an unlimited discussion.

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China sub stalked U.S. fleet This story reminds me of the story of King Hezekiah and the Babylonian envoys. It seems like the globalists in charge at the Pentagon and the State Department are doing everything in their power to give away all to China of our military, space and industrial secrets. One day this nation will have hell to pay, literally. How is this story like that of Hezekiah?

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Janet,I would hope that by now you have realized that I am not in the least afraid that my beliefs will not stand an assault. I also hope that you understand the difference between the beliefs of a mature adult and those of an impressionable child.One cannot expect a child to sit in a public school classroom for over 1200 hours per year, for twelve or more years, under the powerful influence of

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Charles,It is, of course, the question I posed at the end of my letter to the editor. It might be rephrased as"If you are so certain that what you believe is true, why are you so afraid that it won't withstand assault?"Janet

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Hello Janet,I realized tonight that I never answered this earlier email from you:“If I'm going to spend a lot of time answering all of your questions, how about spending a bit of time of your own and answering mine? There's only one, after all."What question is that? I'll be happy to try.

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Hello Janet,Charles Cherry sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Your etymology example was mostly correct. You quoted:"The word is arguably derived from hypo- meaning small, + krinein meaning to decide/to dispute. "The Greek word "hypo" is a preposition, not an adjective (i.e., "small"). When used in the genitive case it usually

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Hello Charles Cherry,Janet sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------You said: By the way, I find it a bit humorous that you, being an atheist, are relying on the words of Jesus to buttress your arguments :-)----------------------------------------------------------------I see the wink here, but of course I'm not doing any such thing: I

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Hello Charles Cherry,Janet sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------You said:[that I said:]"But before I do so, let me quickly dispose of a potentially confusing side issue, which is the validity of the supposed "tax fairness" argument itself. Though I chose not say so in my letter to the editor, I reject this argument regardless of

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Hello Janet,Charles Cherry sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Dear Janet, Thanks again for the opportunity to respond, and thanks for the vocabulary lesson on hypocrisy. As a student of the Greek language, my first instinct was to correct your use of the Greek in your etymology, but I'll let that slide ;-) I do agree that one

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Hello Charles Cherry,Janet sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Hello Charles, So, the question was, how do I think that the arguments about taxes in your original letter to the editor constitute hypocrisy? Well, first we'd better establish just what hypocrisy is. Here's a sampling of definitions.1. Hypocrisy: the feigning of

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Hello Janet,Charles Cherry sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Janet, You said:"But before I do so, let me quickly dispose of a potentially confusing side issue, which is the validity of the supposed "tax fairness" argument itself. Though I chose not say so in my letter to the editor, I reject this argument regardless of who

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Aack! You?ve taken the argument I called a red herring, and actually turned it into a red herring (figurative meaning) in this dialogue. I only mentioned the argument, and did so briefly, because I wanted to set it aside so we could concentrate on the present issue. To go overboard on the hunting metaphors, you are starting too many hares. I'm sticking with the original issue. Though I admit

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Dear Janet, Thanks for the quick reply. I’ll try to answer your argument that the “tax fairness argument” is an invalid argument and a red herring. First, you say that the argument is easily dismissed because it rests on the fallacious assumption that there is no such thing as the common good. I disagree that the argument rests on this assumption, although I can understand how you might come to

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Hello Charles Cherry,Janet sent you this message from Meetup.com:----------------------------------------------------------------Hello Charles, Okay, on to another specific point you raise. You said in your response: "His blatant hypocrisy in advocating public funding of private religious schools, when he has just complained about taxes being used to support public schools? The mind reels." When

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Here is Ms. Factor's response to my reply (see previous post below):-----------------------------------------------------------------Subject: IntroductionHello Mr. Cherry,Well, I've taken a look at your letter, and I can see that there is far more there than can be dealt with in a single e-mail. Accordingly, I'm going to break up my response into multiple parts.I will try to deal with the simpler

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A local atheist responded to my recent letter to the Editor of the Springfield Journal-Register, a shorter version of my recent post on the Southern Baptist public school exit strategy. Here is her letter:Writer must not be confident of beliefsWhen I read the letter last Tuesday by Charles Cherry advocating wholesale abandonment of the public school system by Christians in order to ensure that

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According to a story posted by Allie Martin of Agape Press, the Southern Baptist Convention will be presenting resolutions supporting an "exit strategy" from public schools.Those who know me personally know that I have been promoting something similar to this for quite some time. The public school system is broken beyond repair. Not only are the children of America not being properly educated;

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http://www.vdare.com/misc/061012_carter.htm There was much media excitement recently as American celebrated the birth of her 300 millionth American - or did she? Maybe not, if Dr. Virginia Abernathy of Vanderbilt University is correct in her recent paper, “Census Bureau Distortions Hide Immigration Crisis.” According to this paper, the real population of America is now closer to 327 million, and

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With the recent wave of violence against children in schools, people at all levels of society are clamoring for someone to find a quick solution to the problem. Gun-control advocates are demanding laws to restrict the private ownership of firearms. Others are calling for armed security guards to patrol the hallways and playgrounds. Still others have suggested arming schoolteachers. These are not

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Dentyne has a new ad on their homepage that is absolutely disgusting. I'm not going to link to it because I don't want them getting any more publicity than they already are. With this new ad campaign, they are pandoring to the homosexuals, lesbians and perverts among us. Of course, they have the right to do that. Of course, I have the right to not purchase their products. I hereby choose to

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/freedom_pollAlthough most can name at least two of "The Simpsons."This is just one more pathetic example of how our government-run public school system has failed this nation.Oh, how I hate the public school system.

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