"You are what you eat."  What about what you breathe?  The culture is the air we breathe in and the water we swim in.  You cannot escape the culture, because even if you mark off your own boundaries and defend them vigilantly, your new country is still... a culture.  Moreover, as history has shown, when there is warfare boundaries can be, and often are, overrun.   Many Christians today have adopted the defensive strategy of the French after World War 1, establishing a line of defensive fortifications- their very own Maginot Line.  Unfortunately, the results are likely to be the same for the Church as it was for France.

The 2010 Online Apologetics Conference is casting a vision for a different approach:  fight the battle we're actually in and not the battle we wish we had.  If the ...

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How often have you heard the impassioned rationale that, "If we hadn't done such and such, it would have been worse."  The flipside of the argument is, "If we don't do this, this horror will happen."

 A recent example of this reasoning surfaced in a news story:

 "You might ask, 'What good is Chicago's handgun law if so many of our young people are still being shot?'" Nance-Holt said. "All I can say is, imagine how many more would be if the law were not there."

Yes, imagine it- for the reasoning here relies only on imagination.  I am not going to say that the logic is completely flawed, since what we're talking about here is basically just cause and effect.  The real flaw resides in the fact that we are asked to set public policy based on these assertions.  I may be naïve and idealistic, but I believe that any kind of restriction on the liberty o...

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Today, my ministry is releasing Joseph Keysor's Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Bible.  This 488 page refutation of the growing charge that Hitler was a Christian and the holocaust is an outgrowth of Christian anti-semitism is desperately needed.  Website:  www.hitlerandchristianity.com

The reader may very well wonder why it even matters.  In my experience as a Christian apologist, I have seen how insinuations and associations have effectively replaced argument and evidence.   For forty years, the idea that Hitler and his Final Solution had even a remote resemblance to Christianity would never have been considered.  Indeed, the biggest complaint was that Christians themselves allowed a man such as Hitler to get away with so much- implicitly acknowledging that what Hitler did was ...

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Rush Limbaugh is on record protesting the fact that public school teachers are only paying in a fraction of the millions they take out in retirement, cheering on new New Jersey governor Christie.  As the spouse of a public school teacher, I think some clarification is in order.

When the new NJ governor recently attacked the wage and benefit packages of public school teachers, Rush Limbaugh and numerous conservatives cheered.  Here is what Governor Christie said:

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime. Is it “fair” for all of us and our children t...

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This is a quick response to a forum posting discussing my article a couple of days ago discussing how the global warming hysteria was foisted on the world population.  I argued that it wasn't difficult to understand:  global warming proponents merely needed to use the techniques that had already been shown to be effective in the promotion of evolutionary theory.  This is a response and some clarification.

In the first place, I can see from a tactical point of view people wouldn't want to link the debate over 'climate change' with the debate over unguided macro-evolution.  However, my bone is not with evolutionary theory, but with ho...

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Though it probably won't be told to the great huddled masses for another few years, those who get their news through alternative media know that Global Warming is now one short step away from being completely debunked.  It would be good to think about how things got here to prevent such a colossal fraud from occurring again.

At Townhall.com today there is an article by John Hawkings linking Global Warming, and the doublespeak it morphed into, 'climate change,' to bad science, bad politics, and rampant liberalism.  It is a good article, and I submit it for further reading.  I cite it because it hints at some of the reasons why Global Warming took hold across the world.  In my article, I will explore that more directly.

Hawkings raises the point that liberals cited 'scien...

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It is possible for two people at odds with each other on an issue to both be right.  In the recent Tea Party convention, a widely reported encounter took place between editor of Worldnetdaily.com, Joseph Farah, and Andrew Breitbart over whether or not time Obama's citizenship is worthy of discussion.  Farah, "Yes."  Breitbart, "Not enough evidence to make it a winning strategy."  I think both of these men are right and below I'd like to chart a way forward for the Tea Party, composed as it is of so many people who care about the Constitution and want to win elections.

What follows is a bit lengthy, but I hope you'll hear me out.

The Tea Party, as I read it, was not created simply as a reaction to the brazen actions of the Obama administration.  It was also born of contempt, distrust, and outrage ...

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Planned Parenthood has released a commercial of their own to answer the Tim Tebow Superbowl ad- which we haven't even seen yet.  You can see Planned Parenthood's video here.

It has been with sadness, disgust, anger, and even humor that I have observed the response to the news that the pro-life community would dare issue a 'divisive' issue ad at the Superbowl.  By 'response' I think we have to mean 'frothing at the mouth incoherence.'  For just one example out of many, consider Gloria Allred's accusation that the ad, yet unseen, is deceptive because the ad does not state that abortion had been illegal in the Philippines when Tim's mother was given the option to abo...

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I have never been ashamed of being an American, but I have often felt shame at what America has done, but only to a degree because I know that there is little that I could have done.  Indeed, for some of those events, I wasn't even born yet!  There is something shameful happening now and I wished that there was more than I could do then write a column... but the person who really can do something, who really ought to be ashamed, is a certain President Obama, and I hereby call upon him to do the right thing before it is too late.  Of all the things I could be referring to here, what I am writing about now is Iran.

I watched with dismay this summer as President Obama allowed Iran to trounce the dissidents who had poured into the streets to protest the results of the 'free' election.  Obama's words at the time were subdued.  While he was trying to portray himself as one who deliberates on the evidence before drawing conclusions and risking an ...

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Coming out of the state of Wisconsin is prolific blogger, columnist, author, and speaker, Anthony Horvath.  Anthony is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries, an apologetics organization with unique goals and methods.

It is my pleasure to add my voice to The Cypress Times.  I hope that readers will forgive a post filled with so much personal information, but as a new contributor I thought that at least one column explaining who I am and where I come from would be appropriate.

Way back in 1993 I had a crisis of faith while studying to be a Lutheran pastor.  There was a time when I doubted seriously that there was a God at all.  Except in liberal denominations, pastors are expected to believe in God, so this was a pretty intense time for me.  The singular author who helped me through that time was a certain C.S. Lewis, and I will remain forever in his debt.

Also born from this experience was a burning passion for Christia...

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