AboutTerry Applegate, Author at Affluent Christian Investor - Page 2 of 2
Thoughts on Biblical Business Management Skills
The presupposition that this article is based upon is that the Word of God provides the epistemological foundation for all knowledge and actions in every realm of life. The practitioners of every discipline, if they are to seek and … Read More
Are We About to Repeat the Same Mistake that Resulted in the Noahic Flood?
Scientists recently genetically edited viable human embryos to fix a genetic defect that can cause sudden cardiac death, according to a front page Wall Street Journal article in early August of this year.
While welcome news for those suffering from … Read More
Trudeau Gives 10 Million to Terrorist, Stiffs Victim’s Widow
It is our innate reaction to love our government. They protect us from the bad guys. They are on the side of those who obey the laws, do good deeds and further the communal cause. Thank goodness for the police, … Read More
Witchy Weather
Recently, President Trump signed an executive order to rescind many of the previous administration’s global warming policies. The order was designed in part to roll back regulatory incursions on the energy industry to increase domestic production and make America … Read More
Bad Business vs. Good Government?
Do many Americans implicitly believe governmental activism is morally appropriate and pragmatically competent?
Is it reasonable to put immense trust in the ability of government to solve our problems, many of which it created?
More and more, Americans seem to … Read More
The Physics of Marriage
Science seems to fight a non-stop war against things unseen, religion and anything that suggests that there may be more to reality than merely the physical.
For instance, Harvard professor, Richard Lewontin explained the scientific antipathy towards any non-material … Read More
Should We Keep on Living After We’re ‘Useless’?
How often have you heard that without possessing a certain quality, that life just isn’t worth the living? This thought seems to have percolated through the culture so deeply as to become part of the warp and woof of … Read More
How the Modern State is Like the Medieval Church
As part of my governmental (public) education, I was taught that in earlier times the church held great power which it misused in a systematic way to appropriate vast riches.
By accepting indulgences in lieu of good works and in … Read More
Hypocrisy on the Left
The hypocrisy of the left wing is becoming increasingly stunning. Liberals’ righteous dismissal of opposing opinions one minute and their feigned devotion for open-mindedness the next is simply too wonderful for words.
Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn has reported … Read More
The Reality Party vs. The Unreality Party
American politics has finally and definitively bifurcated into two main camps. On the one hand normal people who work with things (in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, etc.) are basically still grounded in reality and realize that reality trumps concepts. These people … Read More
A Different Era a Different Tyrant
Throughout history man has consistently shown himself beholden to his treasured preconceived ideas. One’s world view is so solidly a part of one’s thinking that it is only the rarest individual who can traverse uncharted cerebral territory without benefit of … Read More
Three 19th Century Ideas That Need To Die
While our current world is plagued by multiple fallacious ideas, there are three prominent ones that have fueled our furious descent into irrationality and confusion.
First, Sigmund Freud’s idea that sex is the main causative behind all human action & … Read More
What Sermons SHOULD SAY About Wealth and Poverty
Finding ourselves in the silly season of this run-up to election year we shouldn’t be surprised to be confronted with acerbic and divisive political rhetoric. Seeing that we have a president that is at least a closet – Marxist, it … Read More
Kim Davis, and Secular American Dhimmitude
The Sanctuary Cities[1] (those cities that have policies in place to not prosecute illegal aliens, flouting federal law) have it right. They understand the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates. They get the fact that lesser civil governments have not only … Read More
The Paganization of the Marketplace
Once upon a time, man lived in fear of nature and based his world-view on myths populated with demons and other spirits who were everywhere to be found, ubiquitous in nature. Always fearful and cautious so as to not upset … Read More
Why Social Justice is a Contradiction
Speaking on the occasion of the creation of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in California recently, President Obama declared it to be “an issue of social justice.” Well, this was certainly giving a new stretch to an old term. … Read More