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In this third installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or in some way related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: In part of a prior post, I noted that A video I recently discovered from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion provides an excellent summary of why hormonal contraception taken by women (aka “birth-control pills”…

In this second installment, I look further into some interconnected topics touched upon, or somehow related to, the themes established in the preceding series (post 1, post 2). Specifically, I cover materials under the following headings: As we saw in part 1, Southern partisan Brion McClanahan fails to take full advantage of the explanatory power of our founders’ pragmatic realism. Claiming, as McClanahan does, that these men didn’t believe the propositions they…

In this second of two posts, I continue grappling with such complex and interconnected issues as preborn humans’ right to life, federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment and its incorporationist interpretation, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Unable to simply join and comply with a tribe, I’m stuck having to work through and fit together the opinions I hold, or tend toward, on my own. In this second post, I think through…

In this pair of posts, I grapple with some complex, interconnected issues, such as the right to life of unborn humans, federalism and the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and use of government power to redefine “marriage.” Many people seem content to find a tribe they largely agree with then, over time and under the tutelage of tribal leaders, bring their thinking into conformity with tribal norms. They might join Theonomists,…

In my last post, I discussed some beliefs and behaviors of my fellow Christians that I just can’t make sense of. Staying with that theme, I now ask: what’s with the professing believers who treat Donald Trump as though he were a divinely chosen prophet or something? This past couple of weeks, I’ve seen all of the following: Now, I know America is in dire straits under the rule of reality-denying woke…

Prospective Remarks This post comprises three sets of remarks: Some concluding comments will follow these three sets of remarks, though I can’t promise those comments will strengthen the linkages between the sets. I can’t even promise that they will attempt to do so. Favoring liberty but opposing anarchy, defending radical skepticism as a coherent and rational choice for unbelievers, and promoting the cause of abortion abolition to atheist empiricists who idolize Ayn…

Introduction and Contents My dissatisfaction with American political options persists. As I continue to reflect on what matters most to me in the political realm, I find I must make adjustments to my affiliations and entertain solutions to problems that I would not previously have considered. To those ends, here is what you’ll find in this post: While searching for abortion abolitionist broadcasters on YouTube, I discovered the Abolish Abortion California Initiative…

Introductory Remarks: Culture Peace As Possible God, through the Apostle Paul, urges his people to, “as much as lieth” in them (that is, insofar as doing so lies within their control), “live peaceably with all men” (Romans 12:18). For a while now, I’ve found it difficult to square this divine directive with efforts to use the government to win the so-called “culture war.” I’ve also been troubled by how some include abortion…

Welcome to the latest collection of my off-site correspondence, including online discussion posts and, possibly, remarks I opted not to post. As previously noted, all posts on this site are snapshots of my thinking at whatever point in time I wrote them. Since I’m always modifying and improving my thinking — or trying to — my current opinions may not precisely match this set of snapshots. The following materials are snapshots from…

Welcome to the latest edition of the series formerly known as “prompted letters,” which chronicles my off-site correspondence with all and sundry. As will be noted in the Pious Eye “About” page when I get around to updating it, all posts on this site are snapshots of my thinking at whatever point in time I wrote down the posted material. Since I’m always modifying and improving my thinking — or trying to…

Preface ˅ Our nation’s degeneration into tyranny seemed to accelerate in 2020 as a new virus and the respiratory illness caused by it, one with a fatality rate that should not have caused any more fright or alarm than the ubiquitous threat of death hanging over every one of us every day, was used by America’s tyrant-at-heart government “leaders” to force upon a once freedom loving people an increasingly absurd assortment of…

Will you weep for the two poor prisoners in their COVID-19 isolation chamber?[1] Pandemic-excused infringements of liberty and a looming presidential election with typically nauseating major-party offerings have focused much of my attention on political matters lately. Fox News remains the Trumpian news network, of late choosing to emphasize its embrace of mass impulse by titling its election-coverage segments “Democracy 2020,” and MSNBC the official anti-Trump network, no doubt taking its lead…