So righteousness is determined by consensus. Even when the consensus agrees that it’s good to, say, sacrifice children in fire or cut the hearts out of living victims?

It’s simple logic: without an external arbiter of right and wrong, everyone determines for themselves what is moral and what is not. So yes, really, Hitler was a moral man by the standards of Hitler.

Now, on what basis does your opinion of morality trump Hitler’s?

On another note, I want to say that I do enjoy listening to you and Sharon, both of you seem genuinely warm and caring. Sarah

The t-shirts, however, were inappropriate and tacky. They branded the event as political first and foremost.

Anthony: decency is in the eye of the beholder. Absent an external standard, every man — to borrow a biblical phrase — does that which is right in his own eyes. Even Hitler was a righteous man by the standards of Hitler.

I looked to confirm that Dr. Daniel Amen, one of the men Rick Warren recruited to lead his “Daniel Plan” for weight loss, really does teach tantric sex. As Paul rightly notes, we shouldn’t rely on circular sourcing.

Yep.

Are there no Christian nutritionists with whom Warren could partner? Of course there are. But they’re not famous.

I went to Urbana University for a time after I got my associates degree. It’s ran by followers of his. His complete works were kept at the university library. Sat and read a little. They had some gnostic overtones.

I wouldn’t believe everything Marrs says. The guy flew off the rails several years ago. He also plagiarizes a lot.

His books have become notorious for circular citing. Check out the sources cited at the end of his books. Almost all conspiracy literature. Research methods teach that, argumentatively speaking, your position is best served by primary sources and sources that don’t agree with you.

Christians need to stop taking legit research and retooling it for some bullcrap metanarrative they have concocted. Chris Pinto and Eric Jon Phelps are notorious for doing just that.

Let God determine when the “endtimes” will be. It will happen when He wants it to. Don’t try to get decent deep political research to conform to some bullcrap interpretation of prophetic Scriptures.

That being said, you are right in pointing out Loughner’s involvement in the occult. His experimentation with lucid dreams makes me wonder if he was even awake during the attack. That’s speculation, of course.

The attempts to put this off on Palin and talk show hosts is extremely lame. There’s a 75-year-old, deaf sheriff who really needs to lose his job over this. Megyn Kelly made him look like the fool he is, and she’s not exactly the sharpest tool.