New Word of the Day

Inerrancy

i-ˈner-ən(t)-sē

NOUN

exemption from error : infallibility

the question of biblical inerrancy

This is a new word that I learned earlier today while studying the recent exodus from the United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church at its recent General Conference made changes in their constitution.  The UMC now recognizes gay marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ.  Adultery and extramarital sex are no longer chargeable offenses for pastors. Foreshadowing these changes was the already mentioned conservative exodus to, in many cases the Global Methodist Church. Newcomers to the nascent GMC recognize the issues that divided the UMC are only superficially about sexuality and gender. The divide is fundamentally about the authority of the Bible. 

The term inerrancy is used with respect to the Bible, judging it to be infallible. 

A while back I read Rules for Radicals, written by Saul Alinsky. In that he described how he would use trained activists to indoctrinate community leaders, college professors and theologists to imbed seeds of contrarian concepts with intent if creating disharmony in communities. 

It's been working, disharmony is here.  

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

In this case the punishment was death by lynching.

OpIndia reports:

How good deed of Christian man Nazir Masih led to his lynching by Islamists over ‘blasphemy’

In the Mujahid Colony in Sargodha city in Punjab, there had been, storm.  Nazir Masih was cleaning the aftermath in the street, sweeping up refuse. He then burned the pile of trash. Apparently, there were pages of the Quron in a box within the pile.   A Muslim neighbor accused the Christian of deliberately burning the religious text, in his mind blasphemy. A riot developed and a man was murdered. 

The victim's nephew quoted.

"My uncle was only trying to do a good deed by cleaning the street, but see what it did to him."

“I’ve been observing blasphemy cases since the 1980s, and in ninety per cent of the cases, personal jealousy is the driving force behind rumors of blasphemy against members of minority communities,”.

“Sometimes, something as simple as a Christian wearing a nice suit can be enough to incite them to plot our downfall,” he concluded. 

As we suffer the behavior of the political apparatchiks in the United States, comparisons Muslim fanaticism, while not as extreme are congruent.  I would judge the liberal Democratic actions of the last eight years to be a type of religious zeal.  Having formed an ascension with bearing like religious crusade allows the believers to justify any an action taken.  Essentially the ends justify the means.

Back on point, an old man cleaned the street about his home, and died for it.  Who thinks that the people that murdered this man have any remorse?  Not me.

53 Million

Donations to the Trump campaign exceeded $53,000,000.00 in the 24 hours following the New York verdict. 

An average of $2.2m per hour. 

I had already donated twice before the verdict, now I am going to donate an amount double the sum already given.

Possibly because of my long-understood insecurity, I've not been one to proselytize, but now will make an effort to share my rejection of the bag of oatmeal and endorsement of the 45th President.

Doubt that anyone will listen, but here is the start.