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- Donald Trump now champions “reproductive rights” 2024-08-28The Pro-Life argument for voting for Donald Trump is history: Trump has declared himself a champion for “reproductive rights” and promised to veto a federal abortion ban. So why in the world are evangelicals (prominent ones, no less) still supporting him?
- Clerical Abuse is not just a Catholic Problem 2024-08-11A number of years ago, at the height of the Roman Catholic clerical abuse scandal first in the US and then also in Europe (Ireland, Austria, etc) there was quite a bit of tut-tuting among some of us Evangelicals, combined with finger-pointing at the celibacy requirement for Catholic clergy. In 2017 prominent Evangelical apologist Ravi Zacharias ...
- Fatherland – A Novel 2024-08-04I have just finished reading “Fatherland” by Robert Harris, a police procederal set in 1964 in a Germany that has won the war.
- The Angela Carini–Imane Khelif Case 2024-08-04Here are some thoughts, prompted by the Carini-Khelif case and extending beyond it, presented in random order. They will likely lead to my classification as a backward and “transphobic” male chauvinist — so be it, as I am already considered “homophobic” anyway
- Der Fall Angela Carini – Imane Khelif 2024-08-02Ein paar Gedanken, angestoßen von der Kausa Carini-Khelif, aber auch darüber hinausgehend, in willkürlicher Reihenfolge, die wahrscheinlich zu meiner Einstufung als rückständiger und “transphober” männlicher Chauvinist führen werden — sei’s drum, als “homophob” gelte ich ohnehin schon
- Die Niederlande sind schon weit unten auf einer schiefen Bahn … 2024-07-27Dass einer der niederländischen Olympiasportler wegen Kindesvergewaltigung verurteilt wurde, und dass dies in den Niederlanden anscheinend keine Empörung auslöst, zeigt, wie weit das Land auf einer moralisch schiefen Ebene abgerutscht ist …
- The Netherlands are far gone down a slippery slope … 2024-07-27Throughout my childhood I had contacts with Flemish (Belgian) and Dutch people who greatly impressed me; in my late teens I came to a living faith in Christ through a group including several Dutch people, and in subsequent years Dutch people including the late author Corrie teen Boom, a Dutch Jewish holocaust survivor, influenced me ...
- Changing Neighbourhood … 2024-07-27Our neighbour is constructing a building for his wine growing operation — this week it was a noisy construction site
- Donald Trump’s Pro-Life Ploy is History 2024-07-17The Republican Party platform has been stripped, at Donald Trump’s insistence, of the pro-life position which was part of it for fifty years.
- Aktueller Status 2024-07-17Ein schnelles Update zu meinem Gesundheitszustand.
- Die Krise der nachchristlichen Kultur 2023-11-11Der große Fehler in der Verteidigung der westlichen Zivilisation scheint zu sein, dass sie den Glauben, der sie geschaffen hat, aufgegeben hat: das Christentum. Sie hat sich freiwillig und energisch vom Christentum losgesagt.
- Der Westen: Fehlende Überzeugungen 2023-11-10„Ein Teil der Schwierigkeit, die wir haben, um ideologische Überzeugung zu verstehen, ist, daß wir selbst keine haben. Es ist sehr schwer, diese Art von Motivation zu verstehen, wenn unser Glaubenssystem so erodiert ist, daß es bestenfalls ein Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse-Problem wird.“
- Einige Gedanken zu den aktuellen Ereignissen 2023-11-04Gute Nachrichten scheinen schwer zu finden zu sein. Das liegt wahrscheinlich daran, dass man zu viel Aufmerksamkeit auf „aktuelle Ereignisse“ statt auf das ewige Ereignis der frohen Botschaft Jesu Christi legt.
- Faktencheck: Biden behauptet, die Hamas vertrete nicht die Palästinenser. Stimmt das? 2023-10-24Wir sollten die Palästinenser für sich selbst sprechen lassen, auch wenn die Wahrheit unbequem oder nicht „politisch korrekt” ist.
- Das Evangelium des Friedens in einer Zeit des Terrors 2023-10-23Dieser Artikel von Heinrich Arnold,einem Leiter der Bruderhof-Gemeinschaft, ist ein wertvoller Gedankenanstoß und Beitrag zu unseren Überlegungen zum Themenkomplex Feindesliebe/Selbstverteidigung/staatliche Gewalt/Gerechter Krieg (bellum iustum), der durch die Ereignisse in Israel brandaktuell geworden ist.
- Gedanken zum aktuellen Krieg in Israel 2023-10-16Warum ich in meinen Kommentaren zu den aktuellen Ereignissen in Israel die biblischen Aussagen über das Land und Volk Israel kaum erwähne, mit Ausnahme der Aufforderung, für den Frieden Jerusalems zu beten, sowie verschiedene andere Gedanken.
- Traurige Kollateralschäden 2023-10-10Krieg hat immer Kollateralschäden — die Zivilbevölkerung des angegriffenen Landes, sondern auch die des Angreifers.
- Der Große Austausch 2023-09-13Chad Bird: Der Vers, der die Frohbotschaft des Christentums auf den Punkt bringt, ist „Gott hat Ihn, der keine Sünde kannte, für uns zur Sünde gemacht, damit wir in Ihm Gerechtigkeit Gottes würden.“
- Gedanken zu Gottesdienst, Kirchenjahr, Tradition 2023-09-01Ausgehend von den interessanten Gedanken von Pfarrer i. R. Detlef Korsen zum Thema “Eventgottesdienste” habe ich mir meine eigenen Gedanken gemacht über die Situation in meinem österreichischen freikirchlichen Umfeld.
- Das G’frett mit dem Gendern 2023-08-20Es is scho a G’frett mit dem Gendern: Warum gendert “auto touring” zwar Leser:innen und Wiener:innen, nicht aber Veganer, Bruncher, Nachtschwärmer, Würstelmänner, und Touristen?
- Guillotine Chic 2020-09-03Written in an American context, but it is a warning we should heed in Europe as well – whether it be Brexiteers ascribing sinister motives to EU officials, Remainers dehumanizing Brexiteers, Hungarian “patriots” denouncing George Soros, the extreme right in Germany and Austria railing against refugees, Covid-Deniers denouncing government officials or those who comply with ...
- Whose sins do you confess? 2020-08-26Not only in America: «I find that people in America, the religious people, those who pride themselves on being the straight and narrow, I find universal among them, they’re confessing the other guy’s sin. This never pleased God. It is not our job to confess the other guy’s sins, to point the finger and say, It’s ...
- Christians fighting over “justice”? 2020-08-24On Scot McKnight‘s Jesus Creed blog David Fitch pushes back against an article by Tim Keller on on Justice. Fitch agrees with Keller that there is no universal standard of justice on which all Americans agree, and then (basically) faults the church in both its conservative and progressive manifestations for assuming that it is their task to somehow persuade the culture at large of ...
- Are Satanists and Gays changing the text of the Bible? 2020-08-17There is a post making the rounds on Facebook, being shared by concerned and well-meaning Christians, which claims that Harper-Collins owns the rights to the NIV and ESV and is intentionally altering the text of the Bible. The post argues that Zondervan, the publisher of NIV and ESV, is owned by the international publishing conglomerate Harper-Collins, ...
- A lack of accountability 2020-08-08CNN reports that Jerry Falwell Jr. has taken an indefinite leave of absence from Liberty University, at the request of the university board’s executive committee. Everything I have read to date suggests that this is an overdue move, and not just because of questions about Falwell’s private conduct and repeated posting of inappropriate photographs.There have been ...
- My Views on the Eucharist, or Lord’s Supper 2019-12-28As an Evangelical Christian, currently attending a Baptist church in Vienna, Austria, I have for quite a while been bothered by the prevailing view of the Eucharist, or Lord’s Supper, in our circles. Because of intensive contact with friends in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches I have recently spent some time thinking through the various positions ...
- Pachamama – Paganism in the Church? 2019-10-28Some conservative Roman Catholics have displayed quite some anger and frustration over the use of some indigenous statues of a highly pregnant naked woman in some quasi-religious ceremonies and a display in a church, in the context of the Synod of the Amazon in Rome; a couple of men, believing the statues to be pagan ...
- Decision Making and the Will of God 2019-10-24I’ll admit it right at the outset: the title of this note is not original with me; it is borrowed from a book I read sometime in the 1980s and which massively influenced my thinking on this subject. As a young Christian I was taught, first in a basic Christian Life course by the Navigators, and ...
- The Billy Graham Rule and supposed sexist discrimination 2019-07-23I am fascinated by the discussion in the United States concerning the so-called “Billy Graham Rule” or “Pence Rule”. This rule, named after the late evangelist Billy Graham is the commitment by some married men, mostly in the public eye, not to be alone with woman other than their respective wives, in order to avoid ...
- Intimate Worship in a Public Church Service? 2019-01-21Recently I was drawn into two similar, strange discussions in one day. First, in a conversation about taking pictures and filming in public church services someone said that being photographed or filmed during worship was irritating, since worship was such an intimate thing that it was almost like being photographed or filmed during sex. Later that same ...
Hier werde ich, nach Maßgabe der verfügbaren Zeit, meine Facebook-Beiträge sammeln, damit sie leichter zugänglich sind.
Here I will collect, as time allows, my Facebook posts, to have them more accessible.
- Feindliche Übernahme: Mein Facebook-Konto wurde von Hackern geklaut! 2024-06-12Mein Facebook-Konto wurde Opfer einer feindlichen Übernahme — es wurde von Hackern geklaut! Was habe ich daraus gelernt?
- Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
- Wolfabschuß in Kärnten 2023-06-02Bin ich froh, daß ich nicht in Kärnten wohn’ — ich halt’ mich nämlich auch unmittelbar neben, und sogar in, von Menschen genutzten Gebäuden auf …
- Social Engineering in Fernsehserien 2023-06-02Ich kann gut verstehen, daß viele Christen ein Problem haben mit den heutigen Fernsehangeboten. Ich hab mich hier ja schon öfters auf die deutschen Fernsehserien bezogen, die ich an sich recht interessant finde. Mir ist schon öfter aufgefallen, daß diese Serien “social engineering” betreiben, und zwar im Sinne einer progressiven Sexualmoral (oder -unmoral): Homosexualität ist o.k., ...
- Lies vs Bullshit 2023-06-02In 2016, during the pesidential contest between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, in which both candidates were caught making untrue statements, I characterized the difference between them as follows: When Clinton tells untruths she knows what the truth is and is consciously saying something else — just like most of us when we lie. Trump, on the ...
- On the subject of ChatGPT 2023-05-31“Language models are trained to predict the next word,” said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper’s authors. “They are not trained to tell people they don’t know what they’re doing.” The result is bots that act like precocious people-pleasers, making up answers ...
- Mentalitätsunterschiede? 2023-05-29“24h Polizei im Einsatz”, eine aktuelle Serie auf puls24 TV die Grazer Polizisten auf ihren Einsätzen begleitet, ist genauso interessant, wie die deutschen Serien “Auf Streife” und “Ruhrpottwache” — aber auf ganz andere Weise. Teilweise liegt das sicher am Ansatz (die Deutschen stellen Einsätze mit teilweise tatsächlichen Polizisten und anderen Ersthelfern nach, die Grazer begleiten ...
- USA: Problems with super long trains 2023-05-28When we were living in Plano, TX in 1984-1989 trains would regularly cut the town in half; as soon as the sound of a train whistle was heard, cars started racing along Avenue K to get to a crossing before the train blocked all crossings for half an hour. And this was not rural Texas, ...
- Russell Moore on Tim Keller, and other stuff. 2023-05-25Russell Moore is editor of Christianity Today. This is his weekly newsletter. Link to sign up to it is at the bottom. Moore to the Point
- Salzburger Katastrophen-Koalition 2023-05-24Wie man hört plant Wilhelm Haslauer in Salzburg eine Koalition mit der FPÖ — wohl ein Vorbote dessen, was uns im Fall einer Doskozil-SPÖ auf Bundesebene bevorsteht. Man sieht daß, wenn es um Machterhalt geht, Schwarze (bzw Türkise) und Rote ziemlich gleich agieren und nicht den gebührenden Abstand zur ausländerfeindlichen Kickl-Partie halten.
Hier gibt es gelegentlich eher technisch orientierte Beiträge, vor allem auf Englisch, da dies meine „Technik-Sprache“ ist.
Here I will post the occasional technical note, mostly in English since that is the language I mostly work in.
- Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5 2024-06-24I am starting a project to install Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5.
- Through Theology In One Year 2024-06-24I am just starting to watch a video podcast series called “Through Theology In One Year”, and found a way to reverse the playlist to watch the episodes in the correct order.
- Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
- Upgrade Windows 11 Home to Pro using an OEM key 2023-10-18Using an OEM key to upgrade Windows Home to Pro is not as straightforward as using a Retail key, but it can be done, and at least in Europe is perfectly legal.
- Forgetting Backups can be Disastrous 2023-10-16With hard disks / SSDs now frequently soldered to the mainboard you can’t take them with you when your computer breaks. All the more important is is to consider and implement some sort of backup.
- Linux Mint Mate: Menu Scripting 2023-07-07I have been playing around with the Mate menus.
- Google Translate has become almost usable 2023-05-19I am really impressed with the progress Google Translate has made. After a disppointing experiment a few years ago, yesterday it produced a passable translation of a theological article.
- Google Translate ist ziemlich brauchbar geworden 2023-05-19Ich bin schwer beeindruckt von den Fortschritten, die Google Translate gemacht hat. Nach einem enttäuschenden Versuch vor ein paar Jahren habe ich gestern eine ziemlich brauchbare Übersetzung erhalten.
- Is Artificial Superintelligence Dangerous? 2022-09-04Yes, Artificial Superintelligence is dangerous but not just because of the risk of accidents but because it will inevitably be abused by malevolent actors. We should be on our guard but not despair, because Christ’s ultimate victory is assured.
- Backing up GMAIL with GMvault 2022-03-21In addition to wanting a local backup of my Gmail data, Google is terminating the free edition of Google Workspace (previously Google Apps, then G Suite) this spring which means I need to migrate my family’s e-mail accounts to other providers. After some research I settled on the Python script GMVAULT.