Undeception

Personal news

Steve — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:16:19 -0600

Looking through this site, you’ll probably notice that there is a minimum of personal info about myself. It’s largely unintentional, since this site is about ideas more than about me as a person living a normal life. I just don’t have much to say about me here on this blog. One area of my personal life [...]

Quote of the day (11-13-2008)

Steve — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:50:08 -0600

(I’ve been out a bit this week. Hopefully I’ll be back in action by the end of next week: prayers are solicited for my performance on my upcoming exam.) From the ever-intriguing John Stossel comes this gem: Obama promises: “We will change the world … There is nothing we can’t do, nothing we can’t accomplish if we [...]

New world order

Steve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:10:19 -0500

This post is prompted by two recent comments, from two different commenters on two different issues. But their answer, it seems to me, is related. I was asked, “Why wouldn’t Jesus say that evil would be forever dead instead of having this eternal fire to go to? Even if it was recognized as an exaggeration at [...]

Are liberal politics more Christian?

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:57:33 -0500

Do those worshippers of government believe that free persons will cease to act? Does it follow that if we receive no energy from the law, we shall receive no energy at all? Does it follow that if the law is restricted to the function of protecting the free use of our faculties, we will be [...]

Philanthropy vs. justice

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:56:55 -0500

The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect persons and property. Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons [...]

Class with Professor Kev

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:49:14 -0500

My good friend Kev, the excellent humor and personal finance columnist at Special Kind of Stupid, has written a great post in his inimitable style illustrating the group-think, legal plunder system that is taking ground alarmingly quickly in the U.S. these days. Check it out! © Steve for Undeception, 2008. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: [...]

Organizers of humanity

Steve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:06:10 -0500

Clearly then, the conscience of the social democrats cannot permit persons to have any liberty because they believe that the nature of mankind tends always toward every kind of degradation and disaster. Thus, of course, the legislators must make plans for the people in order to save them from themselves. This line of reasoning brings us [...]

Just in time for Halloween

Steve — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:58:09 -0500

It is my belief that Revelation’s Lake of Fire/Fiery Sulfur was never intended to be read as an actual geographic location (even in the spiritual realm), but was a colorful apocalyptic image meant to depict and dramatize final termination of various sorts, including punishment. The key indicator of this is that the sulfur imagery and [...]

H E double hockey sticks

Steve — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:37:28 -0500

I was recently asked to contribute to a podcast for Love for All Ministries, a group of young Christians dedicated to honest, intellectual dialogue with non-believers of all walks and creeds. The topic for the discussion when I was on was “Hell”. I haven’t talked much about hell on this blog so far, so I [...]

My turn for a post count

Steve — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:42:38 -0500

Following the lead among my local blogger friends Saige, Heather, and Josh, all of whose blogs have around 200 posts, I decided to reckon my own post count. Now, mind, I started blogging on a blog called Don’t Dream It’s Over in March 2006. Note for anyone clicking on those links: it’s a part of the [...]