Bullet Wednesday: Theocracy/Theonomy

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•Winnipeg Free Press: Paul Wiecek, June 13, 2017  Cited: 'But what does the Nashville experience really prove, other than fans everywhere will cheer a winner?'

•Cited cont.:There’s a reason NBC’s cameras caught Bettman fawning all over Hill during Game 6 Sunday night, and it’s because Bettman knows it could be a very, very long time before hockey attracts that kind of star power again.The test of whether hockey is working in a market isn’t how well the fans support a winning team — that's the easy part. The real test is how well they support the local side when they’re losing.'

•Cited cont.: 'Fans in Canada and a tiny handful of American markets cheer for hockey; the rest cheer for winners.'

•Many people in Canada, especially me, become tired of losing National Hockey League clubs, but I think the author's point is a good one. Regardless of whether or not a club is distinctly successful, overall, a club generally, will do financially better in a market where that club and sport is significantly culturally relevant. Admittedly, that may now be the case in Nashville, but in general, it is more true in traditional hockey markets. And the larger those traditional markets, the better is it for franchise value. Therefore, I philosophically support more teams in traditional hockey markets.

•Quebec City and its new arena are not in line to receive a franchise, in a similar way to Hamilton and its now outdated arena.

•Much of what one labels, depends on where one is philosophically standing...

•Howard James Bartel: 'The biblical first church was built on voluntarism. That is not the same as socialism. The former involves consent, the latter does not.' From my years of study, I would conclude this is correct, Chuckles.

•Although a moderate conservative, I can agree that some left policies would be in agreement with the New Testament and some right policies. But a serious, fatal problem is the universal sinful nature of humanity (Romans 1-3 and following) corrupts any system of government, left, middle or right. Therefore, too much power increases the possibility of more corruption. Can we not observe this? There needs to be reasonable checks and balances between government and personal rights and freedoms.

•As a theologian/philosopher, in this realm, I am dead-set against any theocracy or theonomy whether left or right or other. I do not want anyone trying to force my religion or non-religion. Or any excessive secular state. This by the way, somewhat explains my refusal to embrace partisan politics or partisan denominationalism. The increased power can lead to abuse of citizens that do not follow the rules of state/religious interpretation. Or non-religious dictatorship. Empirically, this can be seen historically in many cases with religions, and communism/fascism. In the culminated Kingdom of God, it will be ruled by the perfect God-man, humanity will be perfected from sin, the problem of evil and humanity will not have need in ways that can lead to suffering.

•I do not claim to be a 'fundi' or US 'fundi'. I claim to be a Christian of the Reformed tradition. There is no need to abandon a Christian tag because of this often questionable group, which most Canadian evangelicals, as example, do not embrace in many ways.

Bullet Monday: Kool-aid

While editing a new entry, because of a Blogger error and frozen image application, I attempted to delete the draft.

Sadly, Blogger deleted the draft and the previous post, the original version of this first bullet post. Therefore, a repost and new title.

•Sorry Hockey world, neither myself, nor my good friend, X (not Chuckles) are drinking the Nashville Predators/Gary Bettman 'Kool-aid.' The Ottawa Senators and Washington Capitals both took the Stanley Cup Champion, Pittsburgh Penguins to seven games, unlike the Predators that took them to six. It is not a clear and concise argument in regard to which team was the second best in the playoffs this season. In other words, Nashville is not clearly the second best club at present.

•Further, X and I were both appalled by the lack of objectivity from many Canadian commentators, especially, during these playoffs. It was as if because Nashville is such an exciting city, with exciting fans, in comparison to most Canadian cities, especially Ottawa, that therefore Nashville should be the Stanley Cup favourites. It was as if some analysts were confusing enjoying the experience of visiting Nashville with an objective evaluation of a club's playoff prospects. X and I, both stated as far back as the Pittsburgh-Washington series, that if the Edmonton Oilers were knocked out, the Eastern Conference winner would win the Stanley Cup. X and I do not view near the amount of National Hockey League games as do the commentators. How could we observe this and predict as the most reasonable occurrence and many of these commentators did not? An answer is, the pursuit of objective evaluation and objective reason.

•In regard to Nashville now supposedly according to some commentators, being one of the best hockey markets in the world. As I have noted, according to Forbes, the club is 26/31 for franchise value in 2016. Well behind, Ottawa. I reason this shall rise for Nashville, but there needs to be objective evaluation of this market and not Kool-aid inspired, frenzy.

•At the 'fire' on Saturday, Cousin Buff told a story of a Father and friend that had lightly disciplined his teenaged daughter by grabbing her arm and soon through her Secondary School, the Father faced an RCMP interview, and discipline from I assume, the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

•Yesterday, I was at London Drugs. A young man of his late teens, it appeared, kindly opened the mall door for what appeared to be his Mother and then me. This was a kind extended opening. I thanked him and thought he was a good young man of class. I saw him briefly chat with his likely Mother, and then an older man appeared in front of them and spoke, I assume an Eurasian language, very sternly at the teenager. Father, I assume, slapped the teenager extremely hard in the hand/arm area. Consider the last two bullets together and angry Father should reconsider his public and private actions.

•I have asked Uncle Chuckles to the downtown Vancouver, TriCities Church fundraiser, Friday. With Pope Chucklins status as a known Mennonite saint, he should be embraced and on his way to being a church Elder upon entering the facility.