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Distinguishing Reality from Fantasy
No matter how good of an argument for Departmentalism my exceedingly brilliant friend and brother, Steve Hays offers (here, for example), Departmentalism is a pipe dream. It’s not the way America actually works. In practice, in America, the Supreme Court has a final say. Knowledgeable advocates of the position Steve Hays mentions continually rue this.…
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Judicial Supremacy
In a number of great posts at Triablogue, Steve Hays has raised the question of the legitimacy of what he terms Judicial Supremacy. His question is not totally illegitimate, even though it in no way rebuts (in fact, it presupposes) my argument that Obergefell is law. So, let’s briefly consider the question of so-called Judicial…
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Bad Law is Still Law
Steve Hays has a thought-provoking post (link) sparked by my own previous post (link). Since his post doesn’t seem to directly dispute the central thesis of my own post, namely that Obergefell is law, no rebuttal is needed. In fact, I find a lot of points in Steve’s post with which I agree – or…
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Unlawful Orders and Options – Some Thoughts on Persecution
Steve Hays has already provided some excellent thoughts on the issue of unlawful orders over at Triablogue (link). In supplement of those thoughts, I wanted to add a couple of additional semi-related points. 1) Distinguishing Permitted Disobedience from Required Disobedience In some cases, when someone in authority over us commands us to do something, we…
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Response to "Christmas Wars"
Steve Hays has a post called “Christmas Wars,” about objections to Christmas (link to post). As a non-celebrant of the day, I thought it would be interesting to review his identified objections and his responses to the objections. 1. Constitutional Objection As far as I know, Steve’s right about this. 2. Genetic Objection Steve has…
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Fourth of a Thousand Responses …
My pal Steve continues: Just to review, in discussing the possibility that domestic violence might be grounds for divorce, one argument I used was an a minore ad maius argument. An a minore ad maius argument is a special type of a fortiori argument, which is, in turn, a special type of argument from (or…
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The Third of a Thousand Responses to Steve Hay’s Rebuttal
My good friend Steve continued: This is confused on several grounds: i) To begin with, TFan has offered what appear to be contradictory statements on 1 Cor 7:15. In an earlier response to me, he said: Where does the Bible ever speak of a woman divorcing her husband? In 1 Corinthians 7 Paul addresses the issue…
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The Second of the Thousand Responses to Steve Hays …
We pick up with new arguments by my good friend Steve: i) It’s odd that TFan also quotes the Markan and Lukan passages to establish adultery/fornication as the one legitimate ground of divorce, for those Synoptic variants lack the exceptive clauses in Matthew. This isn’t really an objection to my point. And, of course, the…
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Part One of Thousands in Response to Steve’s Rebuttal Post
Ok, I don’t really intend to address all of the myriad points in my friend Steve’s latest divorce-related post (link to his post). Nor do I intend to address only one here. I’ll start at the beginning and get as far as I can in a reasonable amount of time. Steve is a resourceful and…
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… now and at the hour of our death.
Thanks to Steve Hays for pointing me to a recent report of man who, while trying to rescue his idol from her peril found himself her victim, as she collapsed on top of him. It is a sad story, but illustrative of the foolishness of idolatry. The idol could not pray for the man either…