Welcome!
So, you found my blog...good for you. 
I don't expect to be blogging every day just yet since I'm working on a few different projects. This blog will serve as one of the ways I can discuss and write about my studies that I am conducting on textual criticism and the cultural & historical context of the Bible. Please feel free to visit my personal website LibertarianKing or a project I am working on called Torah Echad to see some of what I am working on.
Of course, that's not the only thing I will be writing about - anything that tickles my fancy actually. So, some of you by now must be saying, "But David, I didn't think you wanted to blog?!" True, but also slightly wrong. True in the sense that I don't like to just do whatever the "in" thing is right now - like myspace. But, with the prospect of studying abroad in Yisra'el (Israel) this will be an excellent and easy way to communicate with people back in the States. Not to mention, I can now put tidbits of my thoughts on the page with regards to current events, politics, religion, philosophy, and whatever else "be on my mind" without feeling like I have to finish the project first.
Liberating thought for the day: To defend liberty and establish peace, the people must limit the government and fight to foster justice. I defer to the wisdom of the ancients, as it is written in Job 29:17 (JPS), "And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth." Job's use of force (broke the jaws...) was to liberate and defend (plucked the prey out...); justice is a necessary component of liberty. If the oppressor is allowed to oppress (take away liberties), then we are not pursuing justice which means that we are not truly seeking to defend liberty. The first thing is to reprove the oppressor without force, but we cannot sit idly by while an injustice is squarely in front of us.
In Defense of Liberty...
The funny thing is you joined myspace to promote your blog and sites. But thats cool they are worth reading. Keep up the blogging!
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