Stand Your Ground. Three simple words anyone in grade school can read. But the complexity of what this means and how to actually do just that is difficult. If we look at the Bible its chalked full of men and women who stood their ground despite facing persecution. Western Christians have been marginalized and corralled…
Have you ever had a rug ripped out from underneath you? Literally or figuratively, they both have a similar feeling (I know this from personal experience.) One minute you’re happily walking along, and the next minute you find yourself overcome with this dropping feeling in your gut. Your endocrine system immediately floods your body with…
Equal Rights Let’s dismantle this argument about “equal rights.” First, you must establish that the institution of marriage IS a right. Then you must DEFINE that institution. For most Americans, the institution of marriage is the union between two members of opposite genders with the potential (but not the guarantee) of reproduction. A male and…
Me: It shouldn’t read “Right-Wing” it should say “Some Christians Claim”… Most of the Christians I know are Conservative, Right-Wing Christians (myself included) who would scoff and rebuke anyone making that claim. Me: They are all over the place. The article itself even quotes a few. A handful of people making idiotic claims is not…
Barring something earth shattering, I’m going to take a break from politics for an entire week. It’s going to be my fast. As you know from this site and my Facebook page, I’m constantly sharing and commenting on the current political scene. Although it’s good to be involved, I’ve been involved so passionately for so…
I’m a Conservative. No surprise there. I take my political and religious beliefs very serious. Of course, like most anyone, I do differ on some issues (I’m unsure about the death penalty), but if you have me take a political quiz I’ll almost always come out “Conservative”. Because of this, I feel the need to…
So, occasionally, I have these discussions on Facebook that I just feel the need to share. This time a Facebook page I was on proposed that prostitution should be legal. The Conversation Matthew Edmund It is a crime. It damages and demoralizes both men and women. It opens society to a whole host of problems….
As part of a writing exercise, I wrote this ending to a story I’ve never made. It is a bit brutal and violent, but that was kind of the point. The idea was to create an extremely dramatic ending where the antagonist dies leaving you wondering…who was this great man and what did he accomplish?