There will be a lot of moaning and groaning about President Trump’s decision to bomb an Iranian terrorist leader operating in Iraq, among American leftists, i.e. John Kerry and other Obama devotees.

But the president had drawn a “red line” in the sand against the mullahs who ordered invading the American embassy in Baghdad and murdering an American contractor with a rocket attack.

“This is Trump’s Benghazi test,” the national media giggled.

Then, like always, they had to choke on their own venom. President Trump took care of business and declared that punks don’t get a free pass on killing Americans or attacking their property anywhere.

Read James Phillip’s column on the right hand side of this page for an analysis.

Another talking head goes maniacal

The Free Press International Service comes up with this bit on left-wing worldview expressed by some TV talking head named Chuck Todd.

Todd let his contempt for President Trump and everyone who voted to elect him show in a “Meet the Press" propaganda blast with comments during a segment that also featured panelists from the New York Times and Washington Post, normally zaniest of the left-wing print media.

During a segment with guests Marty Baron and Dean Baquet, the top editors of the Washington Post and New York Times, Todd read what he called a “fascinating” letter to a newspaper which claimed that Trump’s supporters “believe in fairy tales” such as Noah’s ark.

Todd said: “I want to read you guys a letter to the editor that we found in the Lexington Herald-Leader. It was a fascinating attempt at trying to explain why some people support President Trump. Here’s what he says. ‘Why do good people support Trump? It’s because people have been trained, from childhood, to believe in fairy tales. This set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good. The more fairy tales and lies he tells, the better they feel. Show me a person who believes in Noah’s Ark, and I will show you a Trump voter.’ Look, this gets at something, Dean, that my executive producer likes to say, is ‘Hey, voters want to be lied to, sometimes. They don’t, they don’t always love being told hard truths.’ ”

Todd and his staff were likely very much taken aback when both Baquet and Baron said they disagreed with the letter’s content.

Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker wrote: “That Todd felt so comfortable about showing such disdain for the ‘deplorables’ who support Trump, with a twist of anti-Christian bigotry thrown in, shows just how little respect those in the press corps have for those with a differing political view. Todd would never deride any ‘fairy tales’ believed by liberal voters and it’s hard to imagine him daring to make such a fl ippant remark about the religious beliefs of any religion other than Christianity.”

Others noted that Todd’s bigoted comments covered not only Christianity, but Judaism and Islam, as Noah’s ark is part of all three religions.

We have to admit that we have considered stories from the Old Testament (Hebrew) to be something like Aesop’s Fables, an attempt to explain an important lesson in an easy way for people of the time to understand.

As we understand it, there is geological evidence of a worldwide flood at some point in time.

Geologists repeatedly discover the catastrophic effects of local flooding on the earth’s surface, resulting in the same conclusion each time: that substantial amounts of water can have the same geological effect in a short period of time (even laying down rock layers) that hypothesized millions of years of slow water flow would have.

In the New Testament, 2 Peter 2:5 Noah is described as a “preacher of righteousness.”

Psalm 104:6–9 sheds important additional light on the geological effects of the Flood. “The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them” (vs. 8).

There is the possibility that the flood and ark were events that occurred just as presented.

The lesson presented by Noah’s Ark was that only righteous people were preserved, a judgment on man’s wickedness.

A God that can speak a universe into existence surely would be capable of that.

Todd and others who apparently feel that the only thing to believe is what they can see or touch may be missing some very important points.

For instance, something has never been created from nothing in laboratories. They’ve moved matter around but never created it.

They also don’t take into account that carbon dating, which scientists generally accept, indicates that there was a definite starting point for the world.

It is not just something that happened by itself.

A fellow we know commenting on evolution, the concept presented by Charles Darwin in the mid-1800s, commented that if evolutionists believe man descended from monkeys they need to ask themselves, “who created monkeys?”

Evolution is the change in heritable characteristics of populations over successive generations.

It explains organisms adapting to a changing environment but it does not explain creation.

Todd is welcome to think whatever he wants about any subject, but he was off base in deriding Christians for a belief in an all-powerful deity and which belief, in his mind, makes them inferior to him and his simplistic views.

‘Faith and Reason

Mutually Reinforcing’

We are reminded of a talk Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave at the dedication of a new Christ Chapel at the Hillsdale College in Michigan.

He titled it “Faith and reason are mutually reinforcing.”

The talk reprinted in Hillsdale College’s publication, Imprimis, provides this quotation from the Thomas speech:

“The construction of so grand a chapel … does not happen by accident or an afterthought. Christ’s Chapel reflects the college’s conviction that a vibrant theological environment and a strong democratic society are fostered, not hindered, by a recognition of the Divine. Hillsdale College affirms, with the writer of Proverbs, that, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”

He concluded:

“Ancient authors from Plato and Aristotle to Petronius and Tacitus have suggested that affl uence combined with leisure paradoxically creates a laxity that leads to the kind of societal and institutional disintegration we are currently seeing. Another major ingredient of our current crisis is the failure of our education system to offer disinterested instruction following the post-1960s takeover by the left of our colleges and universities.

He concluded that individuals need to support colleges that continue to teach the principles and practices of liberty. “We must support policies that recognize the distinction between citizens and non-citizens and that bolster the middle class. And we need to defend the Constitution, our last hope to ensure American continuity and security.”