The Pale Blue Spot

Since this keeps coming up in conversations, I thought I'd just post this here as a reference so I don't have to keep typing the same things over and over... Let me reiterate that I'm not saying that Republicans or Democrats are better here, that I am for or against Trump (although you can guess where I stand on that), or that this article has anything much to do primarily with political stances - Quite the opposite, it's more of a critique of the Capitalist system which both parties have supported, and continue to support/defend without question. We have been consistently told that the economy is doing great and that all we have to do to understand this is to look at the unemployment numbers.  Yes, they are lower than they have been in something like 50 years, but there is a lot more to look at behind this one number and we should never take it at face value (even when it appears to be bad, it's probably worse, and still doesn't tell us all that much). Th

Christian Support of Trump An old friend/acquaintance of mine recently posted something in regards to President Trump and how he as a Christian would stand behind him, basically, so I politely asked him (and anyone else in the thread who wanted to) to explain why he thought that Christians should support a man like Donald Trump.  One person (who shall remain anonymous) responded as follows, and this seemed like a fairly typical response that is probably somewhat representative of the protestant Christian community as a whole: I wanted to offer a concise response to this, and there was no way that I would be able to in a format that would fit properly in a Facebook response, so I decided to edit it well and post it here on my blog (then link back to the article in the thread). Let’s get started… “Pro Israel” This is a touchy subject, of course, and I suppose I can start off by saying that being Pro Israel isn’t a stance that is uniquely held by Republicans… that much shoul