tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post7267648584930060647..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: It Satan were in control...Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-23497453080539909912013-06-08T06:55:52.575-05:002013-06-08T06:55:52.575-05:00“The segment instead profiled a highly functioning...“The segment instead profiled a highly functioning autistic scientist who had learned through years of research how to register which stimuli produce which animal sounds and how to track what scares or stresses livestock. It turns out that the beef industry was wiling to pay for this information, and not entirely due to their humanitarian goals. High stress levels in animals can release hormones that could down grade the quality of the meat. Some of the largest corporations in the world hired this scientist to visit their meat plants with a checklist. She said her secret was the insight that novelty distresses cows. A slaughterhouse, then, in order to keep the cattle relaxed, should remove anything from the sight of the animals that isn’t completely familiar. The real problem is novelty… Workers shouldn’t yell at the cows, she said, and they should never ever use cattle prods…If you just keep the cows contented and comfortable, they’ll go wherever they’re led……” to their slaughter.<br /><br />Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Transition: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Orlando: Harcourt, 2005), 44-55<br /><br />Russell D. Moore. Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ. Wheaton, Il: Crossway. (2011) Kindle 319.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-29246862616525108662013-06-05T21:49:28.570-05:002013-06-05T21:49:28.570-05:00Didn't you leave something out?
"But thi...Didn't you leave something out?<br /><br />"But this petition is especially directed also against our chief enemy, the devil. For all his thought and desire is to deprive us of all that we have from God, or to hinder it; and he is not satisfied to obstruct and destroy spiritual government in leading souls astray by his lies and bringing them under his power, but he also prevents and hinders the stability of all government and honorable, peaceable relations on earth. There he causes so much contention, murder, sedition, and war, also lightning and hail to destroy grain and cattle, to poison the air, etc. In short, he is sorry that any one has a morsel of bread from God and eats it in peace; and if it were in his power, and our prayer (next to God) did not prevent him, we would not keep a straw in the field, a farthing in the house, yea, not even our life for an hour, especially those who have the Word of God and would like to be Christians."<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Therefore we finally sum it all up and say: Dear Father, pray, help that we be rid of all these calamities. But there is nevertheless also included whatever evil may happen to us under the devil's kingdom-poverty, shame, death, and, in short, all the agonizing misery and heartache of which there is such an unnumbered multitude on the earth. For since the devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch-enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour." <br /><br />http://bookofconcord.org/lc-5-ourfather.phpSir Cuthberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13802501959124430128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-45853738866219672862013-06-04T13:20:02.557-05:002013-06-04T13:20:02.557-05:00Pastor Peters wrote: "Such a god cannot save ...Pastor Peters wrote: "Such a god cannot save us but he can make us feel better about ourselves, encourage us to be better, to strive for more and to take credit for our advances, successes, and progress."<br /><br /><br />Yup! This is the theology of glory in action:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Every-Day-Friday-Happier-Days/dp/0892969903Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-25265996537637343202013-06-04T11:58:57.687-05:002013-06-04T11:58:57.687-05:00Mecca?Mecca?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-35904294144265371302013-06-04T11:40:57.159-05:002013-06-04T11:40:57.159-05:00I've lived there. It's Sweden. An extremel...I've lived there. It's Sweden. An extremely comfortable place to live as a law-abiding atheist. Scary as hell to raise children there and hope they might remain Christians.Timothy Buelowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054736557370216427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-55893438291978380402013-06-04T07:18:04.634-05:002013-06-04T07:18:04.634-05:00Sounds like Salt Lake CitySounds like Salt Lake CityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com