Well, everyone.. it's currently 3:46 am on December 21st, 2006. I always like to add the year whenever I write an intro as compelling as that one.. You all can glance it up and down, and if you are lucky.. turn to the person next to you and say something like, "He must think we don't know what year it is." And the two of you can laugh over something so simple as an unnecessary specification :-). Back onto topic, It's 3:46, three days into Hanukkah and three days from Christmas Eve. It's amazing how you spend enough holidays away from home, that you don't really seem to mind it as much anymore, I know what you're thinking.. if I TRULY didn't mind I wouldn't even be making mention of it in this small update entry, but I honestly felt I needed to make the point that I really don't care about the "Christmas season" before I stated how much I love the month of December. Read More...

Quote 1:

"The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.

It was absolutely wrong to discuss war-guilt from the standpoint that Germany alone could not be held responsible for the outbreak of the catastrophe; it would have been correct to load every bit of the blame on the shoulders of the enemy, even if this had not really corresponded to the true facts, as it actually did."


Quote 2:

"There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher Of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful...

In an effort to be objective impartial, and scholarly a writer or a teacher may unwittingly be giving equal time to the adversary...

In the Church we are not neutral. We are one-sided. There is a war going on and we are engaged in it. It is the war between good and evil, and we are belligerents defending the good. We are therefore obliged to give preference to and protect all that is represented in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we have made covenants to do it."

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