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Preparing for a Battle That Doesn’t Exist

Reviewed: 09-16-24

This book would have been great, if it was written about 35 years ago. Because those are the old and tired challenges that the author addresses.
The author couldn’t keep her 21 century, western, democratic, capitalistic and Neo-Calvinist conservativism out of the chapters.

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Tá sé go hiontach!

Reviewed: 05-26-23

Tá an leabhar seo iontach, bia anam íon. This book is amazing, pure soul food.

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Author Needs Some Self Awareness

Reviewed: 05-18-23

Writing any book on theological triage from a reformed position is the very definition of contradiction. They die on every bill. Much like the author himself. If forbidden from quoting the reformers, or TGC, he’d have a paragraph to publish.

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No Empirical Evidence?!?

Reviewed: 02-24-23

How in the world is this man going to open his book with the accusation that there’s no empirical evidence to support the claim that racial discrimination was based on racial superiority?!?

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The Title Should Just Be Called Complaining About Non-Calvinists

Reviewed: 12-22-22

I found Boice’s book to be intellectually dishonest and lazy. Because, like Thomas Sowell hypocritically revisions economics, Boice just spends the bulk of his time complaining that the church isn’t what the Reformation said it should be with quips about things seen in pop culture. If Boice were forbidden from referencing the Reformation, from quoting Luther and Calvin, or from saying, “Christians these days don’t like…” he would finally be left with his honest opinion: “I thank you, Lord, that I am not like other men…” By reading this book, one would think that only the Reformed tradition is biblical or Christian. So, Boice spends 8 hours contradicting himself with pithy Christian sayings.

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A Libertarian’s Fantasy Dreamscape

Reviewed: 09-19-22

This book would be better titled, “A Libertarian’s Inability to Apply the Constitution to Present Day.”

I have two points about this book.

1. For all the work that the author does to get at the Founders’ intent for the constitution, he completely disregards the application process of reading and interpretation. A text can have all the intentions in the world, but the moment that intention is not put into the final product, we must now use interpretation and application in order to maintain that intention. In other words, this author doesn’t seem to understand case law and precedent very much, which makes his work come across as just another stereotypical libertarian rant about the government.

2. One of the chapters boarders dangerously close to cherry-picking quotes from the Founders in order to prove that stereotypical libertarian rant. Once again, unless those quotes are directly put into the final product, intent is meaningless, and we are now forced to use interpretation and application.

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British Propaganda

Reviewed: 09-02-22

“Undercover War” is a rather interesting title for 8 hours worth of 10 Downing Street Propaganda about their state sponsored terrorist groups sent to the North of Ireland to quash an armed struggle against a foreign occupation.

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A Breath of Fresh Air

Reviewed: 01-12-22

This is the podcast that the church in America needs right now. Instead of teaching an antagonistic faith, that must be at physical odds with all things not Christian, this group of hosts teach how to find God in all things and all people.

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More Hypocritical Than Informed

Reviewed: 06-22-21

This was my first introduction to Sowell’s writing. I was told he was a well researched writer, who based his opinions on facts and empirical data. But what I found was a very opinionated book filled with unhidden bias against liberals, the poor, and, ironically, academia. In one chapter, he states that liberals would rather stick to their “vision, rather than facts.” And everything he wrote before and after that statement was sticking to his own (conservative) vision rather than facts. This is no clearer than when he uses the Scottish highlands as an example of the prowess of western culture bringing in commerce. He states that the Scots people knew they had to stop using Gaelic if they wanted to succeed in life. Which is a far cry from the actual history of British treatment of the highlands, including outlawing Gaelic after the Jacobite rebellion. Sowell would do well to follow his own advice in letting empirical data lead to the truth, instead of opinions.

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Great Overview!

Reviewed: 08-04-20

This is a great read if you are looking for a streamlined overview of a very complex history. The information is excellent, but the narrator’s pronunciations in the Irish language are abhorrent.

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