November 3, 2005

Today on The Dividing Line I addressed changes in Mormonism, focusing on the church’s obvious retreat from the viewpoints and beliefs of earlier generations. This led me to tell the story of Zelph the White Lamanite. You’ll just have to listen. Then we took calls on Islam and Roman Catholicism, so we truly covered a wide spectrum of topics today!

   I can’t see that our new location would have anything to do with phone calls, but it seems we have really been getting more calls since we moved here. We did today, to be sure. I played a small portion of a debate wherein Shabir Ally commented on the New Testament, but mainly took calls, commented on the Caner situation,

Started out the program today with a little history and a tribute to Jerald and Sandra Tanner. Felt it was important to discuss weighty, eternal things before being dragged down into the mire of the silliness that has become trying to deal with the situation at Liberty. But, starting about twenty or twenty five minutes in, I recounted what has

Christian militancy.  Reviving the Inquisition.  Wiping out heretics.  Sound like medievalism?  It is, but sadly, when you regularly encounter the medieval behavior of ISIS and Boko Haram and the like, it is easy to forget Christian teaching and adopt a bit of medievalism in response.  Evidently, that’s what Theodore Shoebat has done.  The son of Walid Shoebat, Theodore has been