Pro Rege Papers

I know we skipped July, but well, try some amnesia. Here’s the Quote of the Month for August:

“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen for physical or chemical reasons to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a bye-product, the sensation I call thought. But if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk-jug and hoping that the way the splash arranges itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I can’t believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”

- C.S. Lewis, former atheist

The Case for Christianity, 1943

I am very sorry to all of those who have been wondering what’s going on with this blog since February. Yeah, I was really busy. You have no idea. But, putting the past behind us, I have some interesting things lined up for this blog, so stay tuned.

For the quote of the month (the 1st anniversary of the Quote of the Month series), I have an excellent quote from a book I’ve been reading recently (and all of you should definitely read it too):

The more logical a man who holds a non-Christian position is to his own presuppositions, the further he is from the real world; the nearer he is to the real world, the more illogical he is to his presuppositions.

Here is the Quote of the Month for February, by the Christian political theorist and former prime minister of the Netherlands:

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: “Mine!”

Abraham Kuyper

Hat tip: Sovereign Grace Ministries.

Here is a quote from the malaria program director of the World Health Organization of the UN:

I am here today to ask you, please: Help save African babies as you are helping to save the environment. African babies do not have a powerful movement like the environmental movement to champion their well-being. They need your help.

Arata Kochi, September 15, 2006

Hat tip: WORLD Magazine

Here’s the Quote of the Month for November, 2006

My own conviction is strongly that if we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty, and if we start appropriations of this character we have not only impaired something infinitely valuable in the life of the American people but have struck at the roots of self-government. Once this has happened it is not the cost of a few score million but we are faced with the abyss of reliance in future upon Government charity in some form or another.

Herbert Hoover, 1934.

I just downloaded Firefox 2.0, and it is really cool. It reads parts of this page a tiny bit better, and has other new features, along with a slick new look. Of course, you use about 10 million add-ons with Firefox, including one that I use that shows me the weather forecast on the bottom status bar.

If you haven’t yet tried out Firefox, do so and enjoy. I love it. Internet Explorer is just sludge that reads many pages the wrong way, including this one. For those of you who aren’t going stay up with the times, I am working on fixing the appearance on IE.

For some reason right now, the template for the main page isn’t working. I have no idea how or why this happened, but I’m working on it.

UPDATE: The template is back online. Temporary glitch there that is fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused you.

I always wanted to say that phrase.

I also made some design changes with the calendar font and bars before each post. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know.

UPDATE: Nevermind. Internet Explorer reads the page wrong. Firefox, Opera, and practically every other browser reads the page correctly, but IE puts the posts way down after the sidebar. I hate IE. Everyone, switch to Firefox please.