Contra Mundum

We no longer recognize our nations and our homelands.

Conservatives are great at lamenting what we have lost, BUT they get CONCERNED when we want to do something about it.

Conservatism is not enough anymore.

Hard times need to be confronted by hardened men, by patriots.

That’s the only way we can restore greatness.

The "affordability crisis" is a major talking point lately.

Things have long been getting worse, but furor erupted online over fast food burritos now becoming a luxury good.

The issue, of course, is not $20 burritos or even whether it is a wise use of finances to get lunch out regularly.

It is instead a question of, why do things cost so much? Why is so much of our income going to daily necessities? Why are things things seemingly so much harder for young people?

Shiloh Hendrix was convicted yesterday on one of two counts of disorderly conduct for using the gamer word.

We discuss how you don't actually have a Constitution without the will and the people capable of upholding it.

Yesterday, Donald Trump revealed recently unclassified documents showing Chinese and other foreign interference in American elections. What will this mean for elections going forward?

What are the foreign policy implications of this? And will there be corresponding releases of domestic election malfeasance in the future?

Plus CJay gives his eulogy of Senator Lindsey Graham.

Revelation is a "revealing" or an "unveiling." That is what the Greek word transliterated into English as "apocalypse" means.

Who or what is revealed in this book?

Why has it been given to us?

And what does it mean that "the time is near?"

Today's topics:

-The Trump Admin's new Green Card rules

-Massie's defeat

-Paxton's win

-Zach Garris' trial

Ron and Andrew discuss the various interpretive methods of Revelation, what each of their strengths and weaknesses are, and what the best one is.

In this episode, Ron and I examine the arguments for a late date (AD 90s) for Revelation and articulate why this is built upon weak evidence and also conflicts with the internal evidence of the book.

Apocalyptic talk is all the rage today, even more than it normally is.

"Who could be the antichrist?"

"Is World War III around the corner?"

The mainstream of American Christianity is apocalyptic. That has been true our entire lifetimes. It remains true today, though things seem to be changing.

As people question the End Times obsessiveness, and historical alternatives begin to have purchase, the question always comes up, "what about the Book of Revelation? What is that about?"

Ron Dodson and I have begun to explore this book and plan to do so over the next several months.

In the first episode we start to set the groundwork of what this book is, how biblical exegesis has continued to develop over time, and how in order to approach this book you have to have an extremely well-developed understanding of the entire Bible before you can begin to make sense of anything in it.

Earlier this month CJay wrote a long post on the topic of race, ethnicity, and American identity.

Naturally, the kind of people who believe the (now-discredited) SPLC is the fount of all truth immediately objected to it.

This is, of course, a difficult topic because of the hysterical religious zealotry surrounding it, but God has called Christians to maturity, especially in difficult topics such as these.

How should we think about this stuff in a mature and godly way?