A lot of noise about Justice Moore lately. The ACLU crowd is probably right, but I also think they can deal with it. God rules and reigns over this country, and every other one. And no, I don't mean that generically. The God of Israel wrote those laws. He is the only true God. Tolerance is an idol, and like every other one, it will burn. I'm not going to apologize for the Christian past of many American leaders. There's been preference, and rightly so. We're right, that's why.
I once had a friend, a dear friend, who helped me with personal care needs in college. Reformed Presbyterian to the core. When I was a Reformed Presbyterian, I visited their church many times. We were close. I still consider his siblings my friends. (And siblings in the Lord.) Nevertheless, when I began to consider the claims of the Catholic Church to be the Church Christ founded, he took me out to breakfast. He implied--but never quite stated--that we would not be brothers, if I sought full communion with the Catholic Church. That came true; a couple years later, I called him on his birthday, as I'd done every year for close to ten of them. He didn't recognize my number, and it was the most strained, awkward phone call I have ever had. We haven't spoken since. We were close enough that I attended the rehearsal dinner for his wedding. His wife's uncle is a Catholic priest. I remember reading a blog post of theirs, that early in their relationship, she told him of the p
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