Recent content by breepf

Go back another 5 years and that dildo was supporting the Iraq War.

This idea of faith-as-action is also evident insofar as the Jewish law follows the model of a king-vassal treaty. In other words, the vassal is not pledging to believe in the king, but to hold up his end of the bargain. FWIW, Jon Levenson's book on love in the Hebrew Bible has a lot of cool...

This is an aside, but it's worth noting that what you've offered is a Protestant-inflected notion of faith as an act of cognition. Historically, faith more closely resembles what we mean by the word "faithful." If your wife or husband is unfaithful to you, it's not for lack of belief that you're...

But how did this Fred T. Foard graduate get involved with a Charlotte gang?

Better question: what is Josh Stein doing to protect the God-fearing people of Mt. View from Charlotte gangbangers who can now make the drive with fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles? What these thugs save on gas they now invest in bullets.

It's worth noting that the idea of a soul is not native to the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. Yahweh does not imbue the man with a soul in Gen. 2. He instead gives the divine breath to the soil and, just as easy, that breath departs upon the death of the man. Ancient Israelite thought does...

Thanks to Hwy 321 the Charlotte bangers could very easily and comfortably make the drive to Mt. View without having to bother with I-77 or I-40. It really changes the shootout calculus. You can just set the cruise control and sit in the right lane while listening to true crime podcasts.

No self-professed conservative can support law and order, on the one hand, and the Trump family's brazen corruption, on the other. To pretend it's not corruption is to cuck your own brain. And I'm not even talking about the half-a-billion-dollar jet or the pardons for $1M dinners. The...

A few weeks ago on Ones and Tooze, Adam 'The Tooze' Tooze had a blistering take on Abundance.

FWIW, this argument is broadly consistent with mine.

Unfortunately, I think OKC wins game 7, and especially if Gordon's hamstring isn't ready to go.

I don't have any remaining family in the area--probably haven't been to Hertford in 35 years. My grandmother lived at one end of Dobbs Street.

Same goes for my father's family. 300+ years in Hertford / Perquimans County.

Here's a reading update that no one asked for: 1. My second Warhammer 40k novel--part of a different series--was not nearly as entertaining as the first. It turns out that I don't give a shit about pseudo-philosophical banter in a torture chamber. That being said, the two Warhammer novels that...

Hertford is in Perquimans county. In any case, UNC has been the proud home to not 1 but 2 very influential right-wing "thinkers": Welch, yes, but also Sam Francis, who got his PhD from UNC. Francis was a speechwriter for John East and theorized the political potency of a sort of alienated...