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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

My Response to a Tired Liberal Professor

By Byron / May 25, 2015 /

Home to Roanoke last weekend, I picked up a copy of the Roanoke Times Opinion page and found this gem: http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/ryan-biblical-bigotry/article_295411ca-f931-5f4a-a215-cb570a3669a8.html I figured that this liberal relic deserved a response, and so I sent the following letter to the Times, though they (as of yet) have not seen fit to post my response.  Read Professor…

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A Serious Question for my Calvinist Friends

By Byron / August 3, 2014 /

Been a long while since I’ve posted here–five months, to be exact–and this post isn’t a post full of statements, but rather an honest question to which I’d like feedback from my Calvinist friends (the more TULIP points, the better!).  I have asked this on several occasions, most recently this week of a new friend,…

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The Freedom to Refuse

By Byron / February 26, 2014 /

A lot is being made about the proposed Arizona law which ostensibly provides a religious freedom possibility for the declining of service to individuals. That sentence, upon further review, isn’t worded terribly well, but there’s a reason for that; it’s hard for me to know exactly what this law is intended to accomplish, in large…

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Was JFK a Liberal or a Conservative?

By Byron / November 15, 2013 /

I was three years old on November 22, 1963, the date that, until September 11, 2001, stood out as the darkest day in U.S. history in my lifetime. I have often wondered if I really remember that day or if I only imagine that I remember it, but regardless, it stands undeniably as a day…

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