The Benefits of Sex in Marriage
Because Christians are most often harping about immoral sex, and say little about the joys of sex within marriage, they are often viewed as “against sex.” David Wayne at jollyblogger makes a very good point when he writes
Somehow, those of us who want to preserve sex for marriage need to come up with a more compelling picture of marital sex than we are doing.
Christian Healthcare Alternatives?
Solving the healthcare problem won’t be easy, for a couple of reasons.  First, we don’t have a model that allows us to properly contain costs while providing adequate care. Secondly, and more importantly, there is shared responsibility between the spheres of government.
I believe that we need a tiered, shared model – that is, all spheres of government should be involved, but in a certain hierarchy of responsibility:
1. Self Government
The primary responsibility for a person’s health falls upon the person themselves. If they disregard common responsibility for their own health, they can not expect everyone else to keep or make them healthy. As Jim Carey said to one of his clients in the movie Liar, Liar, “Stop breaking the law, *sshole!” It’s my responsibility to exercise, eat right, drive safely, not smoke, etc.
Christianity and Healing Depression – Part 1
The first approach one should take to treating depression is that of treating physical causes. By addressing these, you can eliminate them as causes and move on to emotional and spiritual issues.
How are your diet and your sleep?
You need to improve these first to make sure these are not the problem.
What’s wrong with the Senate health care bill? OMFG
I don't often curse, especially in print, but can I just say that the current administration's health care and climate plans are the height of idiocy! Especially since these crises are largely manufactured, and not real. The health care 'crisis' is really a crisis of EMPLOYMENT, which the Obama admin, despite their claims of saving jobs ('Mission accomplished'), has run into the ground since Bush, promising us that it would have been worse without it (even though under their plan, unemployment got even worse than their projections had we done nothing).
So here's some conservative 'spam' that is making the viral rounds. OBAMACARE IS AN ABOMINATION, and he is turning out to be one of the worst presidents in history.
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Senator Bayh,
As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the health care bill
before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the
brazenness of the government's proposed involvement in the
patient-physician relationship. The very idea that the government will
dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in
designing a health care system that works for all. Every physician I work
with agrees that we need to fix our health care system, but the proposed
bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if
passed.
I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following
troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe
that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our
fellow citizens.
Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of
all employers that self-insure!!
Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill: THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that
decides what treatments/benefits you get.
Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!!
Ronald Reagan warned us about Socialized Medicine in 1961!
In
1961, Ronald Reagan joined the American Medical Association in opposing
the Democratic Party's attempt to force socialized medicine on the
American people.
President Reagan's advice is just as relevant today as it was then. In part, he warned:
"One of the traditional methods of
imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.
It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
. . . Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized
medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote
against it." – Ronald Reagan
Listen to Reagan's speech (10 min) on liberalism, socialism, and national health insurance. This is why he is still an icon – because he spoke presciently, clearly, logically, intelligently, and rightly. He compares it to Social Security, and the limits intended for that program.
Liberals, naive and, dare I say, deceived by the lies of Socialist serpents like Stalin, Marx, and Mussolini, were enchanted by Socialism then, and they still like it now. Blind to the unsustainable nature of such schemes, and disenchanted with the risks of freedom and a free market, they trade our freedom for statism. Students of history and freedom don't buy the Utopian lies of government-as-savior schemes. Vive la Reagan.
CNN Fortune Editor Breaks Ranks on Obamacare
In 5 freedoms you'd lose in health care reform, Fortune editor Shawn Tully contributes his opinion to the ongoing special report on Healthcare at CNN. The subtitle says it all:
If you read the fine print in the Congressional plans, you'll find that a lot of cherished aspects of the current system would disappear.
Here's a no-brainer:
Page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and
mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.
I am so glad that someone with the visibility of Fortune is smelling the coffee before it is too late.
The telling question you should ask your Rep about Obamacare
I get the American Family Association newsletter, and this week, they sent an intriguing statement.
Here is the single most important question you can ask your Representative and Senators concerning ObamaCare.
“Will you vote to require members of
Congress to be included on any bill dealing with health care? Please
give me a yes or no answer.”If the ObamaCare health care bill isn’t good for the members of Congress, then it is not good for the general public.
Do you think that this is a good litmus test? I mean, do we expect our leaders to be under the same laws as us, or are they allowed special treatment? If so, in what cases? In this case?
BTW, the guy that leads it, Don Wildmon (pictured above), looks anything but wild, and sounds even geekier. I think they need a new face at the top.
Global AIDS epidemic overstated, if not OVER
Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids, released a report stating that, outside of Africa, AIDS poses little risk to those who avoid high-risk behavior:
Dr De Cock, an epidemiologist who has spent much of his career leading
the battle against the disease, said understanding of the threat posed
by the virus had changed. Whereas once it was seen as a risk to
populations everywhere, it was now recognised that, outside sub-Saharan
Africa, it was confined to high-risk groups including men who have sex
with men, injecting drug users, and sex workers and their clients.
He goes on to say that their campaigns saying that "AIDS could affect anyone" was really not helpful or accurate outside of Africa, because AIDS is spread through specific behaviors. As I said in AIDS Does Discriminate, if you avoid what the bible calls SIN, you live. If not, you risk death.
Gays incubating yet another serious disease, endangering humanity
It is politically incorrect to express negative moral judgment regarding homosexuality, and even worse if anyone supports such claims by mentioning the higher rates of mental illness, substance abuse, domestic violence, illness, and death in the gay community. But we all know that the rampant, gross (pun intended) promiscuity in the male homosexual community is what caused AIDS to take root and explode around the world.
Now, a highly drug-resistant staph infection has taken root in the gay communities in Boston and San Francisco, and threatens to spread to the general populace due to finding a favorable climate in the sexuality of gay communities.
The persistent and repeated incubation and growth of such diseases in the gay community is yet another sign from nature that they are doing something unnatural – most probably, promiscuous gay sex. And not only are they endangering their own lives through their selfish and risky behaviors, but the lives of the rest of society.
My Two Cents #98
Here’s a bunch of interesting stuff I don’t have time to write about.
1. Books: Creation and the Courts: Eighty Years of Conflict in the Classroom and the Courtroom
In Creation and the Courts, Norman Geisler traces the 80-year history of creation vs. evolution court cases, beginning with the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925 and continuing to the Dover “Intelligent Design” (ID) case decided in 2005.
2. Books: Reformed Theology blog has a nice list of Top Ten Books on Piety, Sanctification, Spiritual Growth
3. Health: Who is sick?
gives you an idea of how many people are sick in your area, and with
what symptoms. Feel free to add your own sickness. Cool idea.
Carepages – A Great Idea for those with Illness
A coworker of mine just died, and they set up a Carepage for him. This site is for "free, personal, private Web pages that help family and friends communicate when someone is facing illness." I guess you can use this for posthumous remembrances also. Very nice resource.
My Three Cents
Bible Version Selection Tool – Which bible version is best for you? Find out. (HT: Henry’s Web – note that Henry has also published a book on English Bible Translations entitled What’s in a Version?)- Test your religious literacy – I got a 92 (pride showing). I missed 4 of the 7 Catholic sacraments. Others I knew.
- Learn About Other Faiths? Yes. Mandatory? NO! – Susan Thistlethwaite argues that being ignorant of world religions is to be ignorant of culture and history.
- Woman sues over unsuccessful abortion – the baby lived, and the woman is suing for child-rearing costs (if that includes college, she should get a nice settlement!). I’m sure the kid will love her for her devotion, if he makes it out of childhood. In a strange twist, her last name is Raper.
- Woman awakes from coma – amazingly, this woman awoke from her 6 years in a coma, did a news interview, then went back into a coma. Cyclical awakening seems to be more prevalent than previously thought. Wow.
The Biochemistry of Bonding
In her recent book Unprotected, UCLA campus psychologist Dr. Miriam Grossman discusses how women’s bodies release oxytocin during childbirth AND during sexual activity, and that the role of this hormone seems to be to increase emotional bonding. Grossman warns that casual sex on our campuses is not only epidemic, but that it is emotionally damaging, especially to women, in part because we are designed to bond during sex, and that sex between non-committed partners (which the bible calls promiscuity) followed by separation may be harmful.
In fact, a previous report in New Scientist magazine discussed the current science around the biochemistry of love, showing that Grossman’s claims are backed by science (note the personification of evolution as intelligent – interesting that evolutionists constantly allude to design and intelligence when discussing the ‘miracles’ of evolution)
Evolution stole the biochemistry and neural tricks that bond mother to infant and reinstalled them, so as to bind male and female together.
Should Christians Use Birth Control?
danielg previously touched off a debate when he raised this question in an earlier post. Now Tim Challies has weighed in on the issue with a very sound, scripturally balanced approach to the question of whether Christians should use birth control.
My Two Cents (01/15) – Sexuality
- Flawed Abstinence Study – The CDMA criticizes the research model of a recent Guttmacher Institute study that concluded that abstinence is not that effective. Their contentions make sense – not only is the research model incomplete, the sponsor (Guttmacher) is a liberal institution, whose “…mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and
men in the United States and throughout the world.” - Sexual Identity Therapy Guidelines (get PDF under DOWNLOADS) – Warren Throckmorton and other ex-gay therapists are publishing their latest set of guidelines for therapy to heal gays of unwanted same-sex attraction.
Designer disabilities
Everyone has now heard of designer babies, children genetically engineered to be the “perfect” combination of the two parents, now parents are asking clinics to make designer defect babies.
Smoking for smaller babies
Can there be anything more selfish than this: “Pregnant girls smoke to have smaller babies, says minister.”
HT: Allah at Hot Air
Humanity’s Enemies
You may not have noticed, but I put some widgets in the left margin which document what I consider to be three of humanity’s biggest killers. The first two are counters, while the last allows you to measure your own BMI and see how fat you are. I’m a 31, which is Obese I. Ouch. I’m 225, supposed to be 180. Again, the main enemies of humanity are:
- Islam – More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.
- Abortion – has killed almost 50 times more people than Hitler (over 250 million babies)
- Obesity – kills 300,000 people annually in the US
I would have included preventable diseases, but couldn’t get a good counter for it.
