tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post1483611833306054663..comments2024-02-19T07:24:42.397-08:00Comments on Anglican Curmudgeon: Tidal Waves of DestructionA. S. Haleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05108498446058643166noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-29330152079444534542011-03-19T02:45:36.357-07:002011-03-19T02:45:36.357-07:00While it is true religion has been involved in war...While it is true religion has been involved in wars in the past, they can usually be traced to maniacs who manipulated religious fervour to gain land, slaves, or gold.<br /><br />Atheists rightfully point to the advances of science. But they fall silent when shown images of the victims of the wars of the last 100 years, fought not over religion but over land, gold, slaves and oil. What also fails to evoke their normal outbursts are the victims of nuclear bombs.<br /><br />These Hellish machines are designed to roast hundreds of thousands of people alive – men, women, children and infants – just because they live in another country. Atheists often point to the horrors of the medieval church. But a single such device in a modern city would create a million burnings at the stake, and leave countless survivors homeless, flayed alive by a boiling wind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-48313564803614408552011-03-16T08:16:42.313-07:002011-03-16T08:16:42.313-07:00Mr. Haley, I appreciate this post...watching the ...Mr. Haley, I appreciate this post...watching the longterm political and religious tsunamis was fascinating. Is there a map movie that shows how/when/where the various schools of secular/academic thought developed and rose over time to vaunt themselves against Christianity?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-759178030677978044.post-80280544554631710322011-03-14T21:23:17.330-07:002011-03-14T21:23:17.330-07:00Allan - Heres something you might wish to post abo...Allan - Heres something you might wish to post about the Fort Worth Diocese Litigation.<br /><br />The Dallas Court of Appeals has just held that "neutral principles of law" are to be applied in the property ownership context when dealing with a heirarchical church.<br /><br />In Retta v. Mekonen:<br /><br />http://www.5thcoa.courts.state.tx.us/cgi-bin/as_web.exe?c05_11.ask+D+4824426<br /><br /><br />The case is about the Eastern Orthodox church, which is hierarchical to be sure.<br /><br />While deciding that the court could not entangle itself in a "church membership" dispute:<br /><br />"However, the church's failure to follow its bylaws on <b>a matter of internal governance</b> is also a matter of internal church governance and ecclesiastical concerns, and the courts may not interfere with that decision. See Drevlow v. Lutheran Church, Mo. Synod, 991 F.2d 468, 461 (8th Cir. 1993); Smith v. N. Tex. Dist. Council of Assemblies of God & House of Grace, 02-05-00425-CV, 2006 WL 3438077, at *3 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth Nov. 30, 2006, no pet.) (mem. op.); Dean v. Alford, 994 S.W.2d 392, 395 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth 1999, no pet.)."<br /><br />The court however, also held that "neutral principles of law" were to be applied to determine property ownership:<br /><br />"More recently, the Texas Supreme Court has implied that the neutral-principles approach does not extend beyond the property-ownership context. See Westbrook, 231 S.W.3d at 398-99 (“But even if we were to expand the neutral-principles approach beyond the property ownership context . . . .”)."<br /><br />As we say in Texas, the rump diocese in Fort Worth is about to get a can of whoop-ass opened on it by the Fort Worth Court of Appeals.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285325003136746333noreply@blogger.com