传统基督教信仰在社会的地位，由 common good 的支持者变为极端主义者。这样的观点也渐渐在主流传媒中流行（虽然在一般社区里还不是这样），美国已经不再是30过往的美国：
https://barna.org/research/faith-christianity/research-release/five-ways-christianity-increasingly-viewed-extremist#.Vs5wLuRul9B
2016年2月24日星期三
2016年2月22日星期一
2016年2月17日星期三
97% 气候科学家认为全球暖化主要是人为的？
Obama 政府治下的NOAA 总是强调说97%的气候科学家认同全球暖化是人为的。其实他们所引用的那篇论文其可信性已经广泛被质疑，但官方还是照样官气十足。下面文章列出了2015年中250篇质疑这个论点的学术论文：
http://notrickszone.com/2016/02/16/impossible-to-ignore-in-2015-alone-massive-250-peer-reviewed-scientific-papers-cast-doubt-on-climate-science/#sthash.2oLIS1s1.KsO7iTON.dpbs
而在这篇文章之后，有评论指出还有1350篇：
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
上述97%的论文里，说曾经调查了11944篇论文的abstracts，但翻查后发现有66%其实并没有立场，只有~5%才是真正支持该论文的结论。更甚者，其研究方法已经被证明有问题。
美国终审法庭的裁决延迟了Obama 治下的EPA 所推行的C02 排放控制计划，对Obama 的signature policy 是一个大打击。但终审庭的裁决是否合理？下面的文章，在主流传媒不容易看得到，但内容其实很有意思：
http://nypost.com/2016/02/15/the-supreme-court-sided-with-science-against-obama/
http://notrickszone.com/2016/02/16/impossible-to-ignore-in-2015-alone-massive-250-peer-reviewed-scientific-papers-cast-doubt-on-climate-science/#sthash.2oLIS1s1.KsO7iTON.dpbs
而在这篇文章之后，有评论指出还有1350篇：
http://www.populartechnology.net/2009/10/peer-reviewed-papers-supporting.html
上述97%的论文里，说曾经调查了11944篇论文的abstracts，但翻查后发现有66%其实并没有立场，只有~5%才是真正支持该论文的结论。更甚者，其研究方法已经被证明有问题。
美国终审法庭的裁决延迟了Obama 治下的EPA 所推行的C02 排放控制计划，对Obama 的signature policy 是一个大打击。但终审庭的裁决是否合理？下面的文章，在主流传媒不容易看得到，但内容其实很有意思：
http://nypost.com/2016/02/15/the-supreme-court-sided-with-science-against-obama/
2016年2月15日星期一
一个诚实，为社会的 common good 挺身而出的公仆
追念 美国终审庭的大法官 Antonin Scalia。他的principle of originality, 他对社会 common good 的热情和道德勇气：
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/how-scalia-inspired-a-generation-to-defend-the-constitution
还有怀念他对终审法庭同性恋婚姻判决的中肯评语：
Judges are selected precisely for their skill as lawyers; whether they reflect the policy views of a particular constituency is not (or should not be) relevant. Not surprisingly then, the Federal Judiciary is hardly a cross-section of America. Take, for example, this Court, which consists of only nine men and women, all of them successful lawyers who studied at Harvard or Yale Law School. Four of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant of any denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today’s majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not. And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation… - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/scalia-on-same-sex-marriage
---- Late Justice Antonin Scalia
基督徒也可以看看下面的文章：
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/14/a-giant-has-fallen-the-death-of-justice-antonin-scalia-and-the-future-of-constitutional-government/
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2016/how-scalia-inspired-a-generation-to-defend-the-constitution
还有怀念他对终审法庭同性恋婚姻判决的中肯评语：
Judges are selected precisely for their skill as lawyers; whether they reflect the policy views of a particular constituency is not (or should not be) relevant. Not surprisingly then, the Federal Judiciary is hardly a cross-section of America. Take, for example, this Court, which consists of only nine men and women, all of them successful lawyers who studied at Harvard or Yale Law School. Four of the nine are natives of New York City. Eight of them grew up in east- and west-coast States. Only one hails from the vast expanse in-between. Not a single Southwesterner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner (California does not count). Not a single evangelical Christian (a group that comprises about one quarter of Americans), or even a Protestant of any denomination. The strikingly unrepresentative character of the body voting on today’s social upheaval would be irrelevant if they were functioning as judges, answering the legal question whether the American people had ever ratified a constitutional provision that was understood to proscribe the traditional definition of marriage. But of course the Justices in today’s majority are not voting on that basis; they say they are not. And to allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation… - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/conjugality/view/scalia-on-same-sex-marriage
---- Late Justice Antonin Scalia
基督徒也可以看看下面的文章：
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/14/a-giant-has-fallen-the-death-of-justice-antonin-scalia-and-the-future-of-constitutional-government/
2016年2月7日星期日
nicety extremism
nicety 是西方世俗化精英的道德标准，以多元，包容，敏感体贴，不冒犯为上。都是好事，但如果事事诉诸法律和大众传媒，以迫使社会变迁，这种激进的手段和文革时代没有两样。
基督徒可以继续阅读美南浸信会一位教授对最近现代主义的论述：
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/03/secularization-and-the-sexual-revolution-evangelical-theology-and-the-cultural-crisis-part-1/
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/22/the-secularization-of-the-west-and-the-rise-of-a-new-morality/
基督徒可以继续阅读美南浸信会一位教授对最近现代主义的论述：
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/03/secularization-and-the-sexual-revolution-evangelical-theology-and-the-cultural-crisis-part-1/
http://www.albertmohler.com/2016/02/22/the-secularization-of-the-west-and-the-rise-of-a-new-morality/
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