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Abortion is Demon Worship

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   For some reason, I am seeing more about abortion and the fight against it lately. This is a moral issue that has plagued the western world for decades, and there is no end in sight. While many people recognize it as the evil that it is, there are too many others who have been indoctrinated to believe that keeping the option of killing your unborn child is a human right, and they will twist their minds around flawed premises in order to justify their thirst for blood. I will not hold back or sugar coat this. Legal, government sponsored abortion is probably the greatest evil that the devil has visited upon humanity. It is a lethal attack upon the most innocent and defenceless individuals on the face of the earth, and it has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of millions of babies over the decades. That is not an exaggeration. You don't believe me? The World Health Organization estimates that there are 73 million abortions performed around the world each year. Being very gener...
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My Page May Have Attracted Unwanted Attention

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 I have taken a bit of a break from my writing over the last two weeks. It was not planned; it just came about. I have decided that I want to write less about politics and focus more on faith and parenting, but I have been dealing with a bit of writer's block and a lack of inspiration. My goal is not to become a "content creator" for the sake of creating content. If I do not have something that I feel is worth sharing with others, I do not want to waste your or my time chasing after views. I will try to get back into writing, but I may be posting less content, especially over the summer, as my time is being called upon in other ways now as well. All of that being said, this weekend I witnesses something that I cannot explain. Even though I am not writing much at this time, I am still monitoring this blog, and I saw my view count surge this weekend. What has me concerned is that the views do not appear to be organic. I am not even sure that the views were human. I suspect...
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We Need to Return to Meritocracy

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Do you know what meritocracy is? Possibly not. Especially since the practice of it has been decreasing over the last couple of decades. Instead, we have begun to focus on the immutable characteristics of people to decide their worth; things such as the colour of their skin, their religious or cultural background and even their social status. Meritocracy is simply recognizing the skills, abilities and knowledge of people over anything else. In a world that has been screaming about ending "systemic racism" for years while only stoking it through society's actions, meritocracy is the epitome of non-racist actions. Meritocracy does not take one's past, their religion or their skin colour into account; it simply seeks out the one who is the best at what they do. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) do not take a person's abilities, knowledge, skills or training into account. The entire focus is on meeting quotas to have 'enough' people of certain skin colours...
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The Dark Ages, The Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment

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    Have you noticed how the world likes to change the use and meaning of words, especially when they want to remove God from their worldview? This has become a rampant problem, but it seems like it is not a new problem.   Some time ago, my mind wandered and I got to thinking about the terms "the Dark Ages" and the later occurring "Enlightenment". I got to wondering what the basis of these terms actually was. On the surface, one might think that the Dark Ages were a time of oppression, lack of human flourishing and maybe even spiritual repression if you have a bent towards theological thinking. The Enlightenment would seem to then be the contrast to that, suggesting that oppression had ceased, human civilization grew and advanced and that spiritual repression had ceased. But is this really the case?   As it turns out, the term "Dark Ages" was coined, somewhat indirectly and unintentionally, by an Italian poet by the name of Francis Petrarch who lived in th...
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The Nature and Timing of Creation

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   What follows is another of my thought exercises that I sometimes like to undertake. There may be some references to Scripture, since I base my thought processes on what Scripture says, but I will not assert that what follows is strictly Scriptural. In the beginning, God created (Genesis 1:1); in the beginning of what? It can't be in the beginning of time, because, as I will discuss a little later, time as we know it only came into existence through the creative process. It also can't be in the beginning of God's existence, because the Bible tells us that God has always been. We understand from astronomy that the universe is constantly expanding, and though some scientists may not acknowledge this, the implication of this is that at some point in time, the universe had to have a beginning. If the universe is constantly and consistently expanding, then it cannot have always been. If we reverse the expansion back through time, there will come a point at which the ...
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Teach Your Kids to Make Good Decisions

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   I came to a realization this morning, which I will get to shortly. I have often shared a story with people that I know that demonstrates how people need to be taught what many of us may think of as a basic skill of survival. I may or may not have already written this story on this blog previously, and I'm not about to share it now as it is merely a parallel situation to what I am writing about today, but this story is about maintaining basic cleanliness and how it is not an ingrained human trait, but rather, something that has to be taught. I came to this realization many years ago after having been exposed to a people group who had apparently never been taught this skill. To the same end as this story, this morning I came to the conclusion that people need to be taught how to make good decisions. In our internet age, we get to have a front row seat to the consequences of too many peoples' bad decisions. How often have you come across some story or video of someone who is b...
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GCD Short - Gentle Parenting is Not A Path to Success

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I have been witnessing and observing the methods and results of a style of parenting that is referred to as "gentle parenting". According to a summary of an article by Cleveland Clinic, "The goal of gentle parenting is to raise confident, independent and happy children through empathy, respect and understanding, and setting healthy boundaries. This parenting style focuses largely on age-appropriate development." This method of parenting is contrasted with traditional parenting with a "focus on punishment and reward." I was raised traditionally. As were my siblings. We all turned out well. We are all functioning members of society with friend groups and social circles. We all avoided the teenage and young adult traps of cigarettes, drugs, alcohol and sex. And most importantly, we all loved our parents and had good relationships with them. I think this is a fantastic outcome of a parenting system that has been around since the start of time. There are, of c...
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