In the next issue: Water found to be wet.

Gotta love the persistent failure of secular attempts to replicate the self-control and the identification of those who attend for purely social reasons!  Indirect evidence for the Holy Spirit?  Nah!  It couldn’t be because the dominant materialist paradigm can’t acknowledge the Spirit.  So why opt for the “spiritual” through bogus technological paradigms?

I just love a good paradoxical materialist explanation first thing in the AM.

Whatever, the cause, the “discovery” is an important one, because, increasingly, the cultural issues will focus on whether our society will have and maintain standards or not. This question will centor on the development of self-discipline (and you know how hard I have argued for this as essential to a sane culture). The remaifications reach faar beyond religion; if our culture had been paying attention to the demands of self-restraint, hordes of people would not have gone out and bound vast castles they could not pay for, nor would lending institutions have advanced the money therefore. And the issue of ssm will be involved in the same debate, the liberals arguing that self-restraint is to be fettered to the past, and the conservatives arguing that that self-discipline is timeless and refuses to sanction excess in any period. I wish I knew who was going to win this argument. Larry

Researchers around the world have repeatedly found that devoutly religious people tend to do better in school, live longer, have more satisfying marriages and be generally happier.

For best results, follow instructions of Maker.

I’m as materialist as the next guy, but I also know there’s no filling that hole in our souls with anything but Jesus Christ.

Time to bring this out again: ” All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”—-C.S. Lewis