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Osama bin Laden is dead.  I cannot tell you how long I have waited to hear those words.  In the early months of the now decade-long war in Afghanistan I listened constantly for the news of his capture or death, the capture or death of the man who had declared war on my homeland, murdered its people and left a section of one of our great cities in ruins.  I waited, we waited collectively as a nation, and we waited in vain.  For nearly ten long years we waited for news of the destruction of our most prominent avowed enemy.  And yet, despite our matchless military power and extensive intelligence capabilities, he evaded our grasp.  Like the “bogey man” of old, he taunted us from the darkness and left us no traces of his existence but shattered lives and cryptic taunts. Until yesterday, that is.  After a decade of waiting, after long having given up hope of the dead being avenged or justice being done, I sat dumbfounded, along with millions of my fellow countrymen as we heard President... Read the rest of this entry »

Here is another fine posting from Catherine Aurelia over at CARM (Christian Apologetic Research Ministry). This time, in a thread entitled Have We Now Reached a Point Where the Mormons are Unwilling to Defend Mormonism? This came from one of … Continue reading →  Read More →

A funny thing about a lot of the forgotten stories in the bible is that while they are often interesting stories, they contain no particular lesson. Perhaps that’s why they are forgotten. One such story involves a little mess that Lot, Abram’s (Abraham’s) brother got into. You probably remember that when Abram and Lot first arrived in the land of Canaan, they divided the land in half, and each took a half. Well, there were still people and cities in those lands, and Lot picked a land that was more fruitful, but it was also in the middle of a pretty nasty war. Lot built a home on the outskirts of Sodom. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were apparently losing the battle, because the armies of those cities fled to an area that was full of “slime-pits,” or bitumen pits – a sticky, petroleum-based goop. The few who were left back at home fled into the mountains, and when the opposing armies collected spoils of Sodom, they took Lot and the people of his household prisoner. Among... Read the rest of this entry »

The story of Lamech is hardly an inspirational one, but it carries a very important warning. The Lord has no toleration for secret combinations, and Lamech was what you might call the heir to Cain’s secret society. We know little about what happened to Cain after he was cursed, except that he was a fugitive and a vagabond, and had to constantly watch his back for fear someone would kill him. Anyone who was leader of this secret combination was called Mahan, master of the great secret, and from the Pearl of Great Price, we learn that this combination didn’t end when Cain was “discovered” and cursed. Lamech, one of Cain’s descendents, became Master Mahan. Lamech murdered a man for the sake of the oath, and as is common for evil leaders, Lamech became prideful in his position. He thought that as Master Mahan, he could boast to his wives about the murder he had committed. He was sure that in his position, and as devoted to his secret society as he was, he was more dangerous... Read the rest of this entry »