{"id":20712,"date":"2026-05-06T15:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20712"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:00:25","slug":"journal-of-the-week-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20712","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5\/6\/2026 Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting take by the Holy Post Media in analyzing speeches between King Charles III and Donald Trump:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Gemini:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"p-rc_9b4376bb4196156f-105\"><em><strong>King Charles III<\/strong>: His address to Congress referenced his Christian faith as a \"firm anchor\" that inspires a \"generosity of spirit\" and a duty to foster pluralism and peace among all faiths.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"p-rc_9b4376bb4196156f-106\"><em><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>: In his welcoming remarks, Trump framed Christianity as a \"cultural identity\" linked to Anglo-Saxon heritage, presenting it as something fragile that requires protection and walls to preserve.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"p-rc_9b4376bb4196156f-107\"><em><strong>The Contrast<\/strong>: Skye Jethani observed that King Charles' vision was rooted in <strong>love and outward service<\/strong>, whereas the vision promoted by Trump and J.D. Vance was driven by <strong>fear and inward preservation<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Charles\u2019 Christian Message plus Alan Noble (ep. 719)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qtE3c01a8pM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5\/4\/2026 Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interesting interview with Carlos Campo, CEO of the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Seems that Campo is not Reformed, so Allie Beth Stuckey caught the common grace - \"self evidence\" error, but wasn't able to correct him easily, perhaps due to Allie's own lack in the Reformed doctrine: That by <strong>general revelation (common grace)<\/strong>, human rights are indeed \"self-evident\" though corrupted by sin and thus not perfectly executed by unregenerate sinners. Christian view is perfected by Christ on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Study: America is Biblically Illiterate. Here\u2019s How to Change That  | Carlos Campo | Ep 1342\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2HyFl7zKng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other error of a few more which I am not willing to go over all here, is his take on the etymology of the word \"amusement\". Google AI has great response, I couldn't have done it better:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, the prefix in <em>amuser<\/em> does not mean \"without.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The French Prefix <em>a-<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this specific French word, the prefix <strong>a-<\/strong> comes from the Latin <strong>ad-<\/strong>, which means \"to,\" \"toward,\" or \"into a state of.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It acts as an intensive to push someone into an action.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Amuser<\/em> literally means \"to put into a muse\" or \"to make someone stare blankly.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Confusion with Greek <em>a-<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confusion happens because there is a completely different prefix <strong>a-<\/strong> (sometimes <strong>an-<\/strong>) that comes from Greek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That Greek prefix does mean \"without\" or \"not.\"<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Examples include <strong>amoral<\/strong> (without morals) or <strong>anonymous<\/strong> (without a name). [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dummies.com\/article\/academics-the-arts\/study-skills-test-prep\/gre\/brush-up-on-prefixes-suffixes-and-roots-for-the-gre-test-263591\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studysmarter.co.uk\/explanations\/english\/english-grammar\/prefix\/\">2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because <em>amusement<\/em> grew out of Latin and French roots rather than Greek, it means to engage the mind rather than strip it away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last but not least, love the brief tour part:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Archaeological Reliability:<\/strong> Campo highlights significant artifacts like the <strong>Megiddo Mosaic<\/strong> (one of the earliest Christian worship spaces found) and the <strong>Crosby-Sch\u00f8yen Codex<\/strong> (containing the earliest copy of Jonah) [00:03:10]. These demonstrate that the Bible was not a \"phone game\" but a carefully preserved text [00:09:27].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\/6\/2026 Wednesday Interesting take by the Holy Post Media in analyzing speeches between King Charles III and Donald Trump: Google Gemini: King Charles III: His address to Congress referenced his Christian faith as a \"firm anchor\" that inspires a \"generosity &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20712\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20855,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20712\/revisions\/20855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}