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Re: Is Killing Innocents Christian? | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:15:02 -0000

How d'you know it's evil? You may not like triune Jehovah or His Biblical laws, but at least He lays down standards of right and wrong. Where do your standards come from?

Re: Grifters, Activism, and Thomas Massie | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:25:11 -0000

What was wrong with opening the Epstein files?
Didn't Trump himself promise to do so?
Didn't he lost some poll numbers by hesitating?
And if most of the bad guys in the files are Democrats, ok, but face up any that aren't.

Re: Why Does Donald Trump Squash Conservative Republicans? | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:19:26 -0000

I subscribe to NR, relevant or not. And years before Trump ran I was posting that the GOP establishment and the Tea Party types needed to work together ("fusionism"?) Since the RINOs didn't give the right a fair shake, they were asking--and so was the liberal establishment--for Trump, who, whatever his many faults, didn't claim our votes and do nothing about our issues. (He may be doing more of that now.)

Re: Why Does Donald Trump Squash Conservative Republicans? | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:13:35 -0000

Libertarian (small government) is good--Jesus Christ is libertarian, so so am I. Mr Massie may've been anti-semitic, but releasing the Epstein files was good (hadn't president Trump[promised to do that?)

Re: Is Capitalism Sinful?

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:27:34 -0000

Real estate can barely increase (drain a swamp); leave money aside; can one call it "increase of wealth" that George Washington may've been the richest American in his day, but we travel faster (cars and planes); communicate more easily (phones, email, web); we have air conditioning, electric lights and stoves and microwaves; poverty is way down since his day; prefer to call it increase of comforts? The Creator created creative people in his image.

Re: Christmas and Easter: Four Holidays?

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:49:09 -0000

Yeah, thanks for the distinction between Christmas and the other one then, and Easter and the other one then. (C.S.Lewis had a little piece "Christmas and X-mas," in "God in the Dock," making a similar point about his Britain.)

Re: Is Capitalism Sinful?

andrewlohr — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:36:18 -0000

Have you compared the sharing in Jerusalem in Acts with Jeremiah buying Jerusalem real estate despite Nebuchadnezzar? Selling warned the old covenant was making way to the new. Not insider trading, a public warning (Mt 24, etc.) Elsewhere Christian were generous with weekly earnings.

Re: Deconstructing Evangelicalism

andrewlohr — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:53:51 -0000

'Bible, cross, conversion, and activism' (Bebbington), and basic Christian orthodoxy? Thanks.

Re: When Business Went Bad

andrewlohr — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:38:11 -0000

When did coveting and envy of what rich people have become good?

When did bullying, taking from one person and giving to another, become good?
When did politicians, who practice such bullying, become trustworthy?

To force equalization of money requires a non-equal Equalizer. Who is like unto the IRS, and who is able to make war with Him?
To equalize money de-equalizes power; if you think the IRS is bad, try Stalin.

When government enforces monopolies, when it crushes competition so the rich can become richer instead of having to offer better services than their competitors, get rid of that.

But if you can box better than Tyson Fury, and get people to pay to see you, go ahead.
(Making taxpayers pay for sports stadiums is another story.)

Re: Evangelicalism a Closed Club?

andrewlohr — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:03:14 -0000

Yes. Are you also concerned that pastor Doug Wilson, the CREC denomination, and "Christian Nationalists" get a fair shake?
(At least in principle; I'm not dictating your interest level.) Be faced, and not lied about?

(I heard Dr Geisler at an ETS meeting, late '80s, blasting Theonomy. I remember asking him, after hearing his address, if the Bible should determine what we think of it. I forget what he replied.)

Re: Deconstructing Evangelicalism

andrewlohr — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:28:07 -0000

Most of these articles seem to criticize evangelicalism. (God is perfect and we're not so there's plenty to criticize, starting in a mirror, tho we puritan fundamentalists might often question different points than you would.) Have you one, or plan one, setting forth what you think evangelicalism is or should be? (I think commenter Glen B. Smith here has a similar request.)

Re: Every Interpretation of the Bible’s “Texts of Terror”

andrewlohr — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:10:56 -0000

Literal, 3, may endorse executions and just wars today as Biblical, but 'exterminate the Caananites' was for Joshua and maybe down to Saul, not a permanent order of things. (And we'd better be careful telling God what He can't do or say.) Just as Jesus is Lord and Christ with His own particular mission, yet also a man and in some ways an example for other men, so Israel was God's particular nation up to A.D. 70, yet in some ways an example for other nations--God advised against tax rates of 10% and against national service and eminent domain, for example (I Samuel 8); basic justice is that criminals owe restitution to their victims, and I think our prison-centered system could take a hint.

A modern novelist, Christian or not, may create, and be sovereign over, evil characters who do evil things, without ceasing to be a good person telling a good story--C. S. Lewis's White Witch in Lion Witch & Wardrobe, for instance. Similarly with triune Jehovah.
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Re: Pope Leo XIV’s Fatherly Balancing Act | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:55:11 -0000

Like what Kinsey the famous researcher found a lot of without concentrating on Roman Catholic priests (if indeed he studied them at all).

How does in-sin-you-ate-her sound?

Re: Pope Leo XIV’s Fatherly Balancing Act | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:52:18 -0000

Well, if he has to excommunicate SSPX bishops, he might do well to make sure the formerly mandatory Tridentine Mass is actually available for those who want it, and to make clear that he is doing so. Not just the SSPX is doing something out of line, but also that they don't need to.

Re: When the Villagers Finally Have Had Enough of the Pillagers | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:34:59 -0000

Read (and sing) the Psalms in the Bible. They say a lot about external enemies.

I've sung thru "The Book of Psalms for Singing" several dozen times.
Love triune Jehovah, love His lyrics (in some form or other.)

I think "exclusive psalmody" (sing nothing but Psalms in church) goes too far, but I favor "inclusive Psalmody" (make sure church singing includes all 150 Psalms one way or another.)

Re: Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:44:26 -0000

The other man Oswald tried to kill was a general too conservative for the Army.

Re: Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:43:53 -0000

Yeah. And Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist more liberal than president Kennedy, who shot JFK for the personal reason of wanting to impress his wife and the political reason that he saw JFK as a gung-ho cold warrior.
For that matter Sirhan Sirhan was also a communist (who shot JFK's brother Robert.)

Re: Calling the Pope ‘Liberal’ | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:43:21 -0000

Well, if God doesn't listen to the prayers of warmakers, and Islamic terrorists are warmakers, then God does not hear their prayers.
Would the pope agree that his meaning includes this?
What about supporters of Islamic terrorism, such as Dems just nominated in Michigan?
Does God hear their prayers? Would the pope openly say He does not?

Re: Calling the Pope ‘Liberal’ | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:40:33 -0000

Martin Luther said that if you preach the whole gospel except the one point being contested right now, you're not preaching the gospel.

Re: Pope Leo on Peace, War, and Conscience | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:56:41 -0000

Let Christians consider this, indeed, but does he have a word for Secularists, Muslims, and others? God in the Bible emphasizes His own people, but He does also speak to those heading, unless they repent, for Hell and for the Resurrection of Damnation, not just those already heading for Heaven and for the Resurrection of Life, who still have our own sins to repent of but are working on it.

Re: If FDR Had Killed Hitler? | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:55:32 -0000

A British military attache in Berlin in the A.D. 1930s offered to assassinate Hitler--he had a clear shot from his office to a podium Hitler would speak at, or something like that--but his superiors told him not to.

Re: National Review Sides with the War Party Again - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:33:07 -0000

Who started the shooting?

Re: National Review Sides with the War Party Again - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:30:40 -0000

Gulf of America is ridiculous; the old name is fine.

Re: National Review Sides with the War Party Again - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:29:08 -0000

Stone cold realist's 3-day-war is 3 years old?

Re: National Review Sides with the War Party Again - The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator | USA News and Politics

andrewlohr — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:27:56 -0000

Didn't Mr McCarthy vote for Trump in A.D. 2020? I could be wrong, but I seem to recall three NR writers, McCarthy voting for Trump, Mr Cooke? not voting?, and someone else (Mr McLaughlin?) voting for a 3rd party? And while blaming president Trump for the blowup with president Zelensky, Andy did say Z had behaved incompetently.