Some good news about euthanasia
Scotland has voted against euthanasia after looking at the horror happening in Canada.
1 in 5 Canadian employees works for the government and it’s rising
And that doesn’t include all the time that private sector employees have to spend. Meanwhile the self-employed are dropping. Correlation doesn’t prove causation but…
Finnish parliamentarian convicted of hate speech for opposing homosexuality
…and the court ordered her book to be banned too.
The astonishing “engineering” involved in childbirth (10-minute read)
When a baby is born we think it is fearfully and wonderfully made, and that is certainly so. But we’re just starting to learn about all that’s going on in mom’s body during childbirth… and it’s amazing.
Some of this was a bit above me, but I enjoyed reading it even just getting the gist. What a gist! What a Creator!
Man most responsible for global population collapse has died
Paul Ehrlich passed away this week at the age of 93. He spent his life scaring people into thinking our planet was going to be overpopulated, and millions and billions would consequently starve. He did such an effective job that our world is now in great danger of a demographic collapse, with countries globally no longer having enough babies born to replace the adults who are dying.
Ehrlich is another example of how “Science” can be biased, and based on ideology, not reason or facts. Ehrlich was always wrong, but only people grounded in God’s Word – where we learn that children are a blessing, not our doom – could have stood up against his hype and hysteria. Oh sure, eventually the research proved him wrong, but that took decades. Decades and decades of abortions, with millions dead. Only Christians, gifted with God’s clear Word, could have known better. “Science” belittles the Bible, but the Bible was right and the world was wrong.
And now Canada’s birthrate is so low we would be shrinking, if not for immigration. This is the legacy of a man who was arrogant enough to go right up against God, took the world with him, and was disastrously wrong.
Marx vs. Mises – the epic economic rap battle
This is the most informative 8-minute overview of economics you’ll ever see. And the most entertaining. There might be some terms and concepts that blow past you, but if so, rewind, and then do some digging.
This isn’t a Christian presentation, though it lines up well with God’s Word… or at least far better than socialism.
Marx pitches socialism as all about equality, but it is about class warfare (against the 5th commandment), about fostering envy (10th commandment), about the use of force to take what God has entrusted to others (8th), and ultimately about the arrogance to think central planners can be omniscient (1st commandment), knowing what everyone should be doing.
Mises pitches individualism, which is often worshipped as a god too, but it doesn’t have to be. We are part of groups – our country, the covenant Church, and our family, to name three, but we are individuals, too, and God has entrusted us individually with our own skills and resources, and tasked us, as individuals, to make the most of them (Matthew 25:14–30). And if we do not steal what others have, or covet it, then what results? The free market with its free exchanges. Adam Smith spoke of an “invisible hand” making things work as if by magic, getting fruits and milk and medicine to market without a central planner. As Christians we can recognize Whose hand that is – when we do economics the way God prescribes, the reason it works so well is just evidence of His love for us.
