Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
As Election 2008 continues unabated, the issue of Mitt Romney's religion continues to surface, both on the right (where Evangelicals don't like the idea of a Mormon President) and the left (who don't like the idea of religious people period.) We expect to see considerable discussion about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day …
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The flap over General Pace's remarks about homosexuals in the military makes us think of our own closing remarks in our 2004 piece Gay Marriage? What Marriage? Such moves (Christians withdrawing from the mainstream of society as a result of enshrining gay marriage into law) would have the long term effect of strengthening the Christian …
While thinking about the volleys of insults last week (both Ann Coulter's and Bill Maher's about the Vice President) we keep being haunted by the following: Above: A St. Andrew's School sophmore points out the obvious Confederate flag on the wall of a dorm room while his classmates (one American and one Bahamian) have a …
Although liberals are doubtless dancing in the streets over the conviction of Scooter Libby, the truth is that our plethora of laws insures that, if those in authority want to put us away, they can do so one way or the other, even when there's no crime to start with. Just grind down someone long …
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The film Amazing Grace--or at least the life of William Wilberforce--highlights something that most people have forgotten: many of the "social justice movements" had their roots in the evangelical Christianity that emerged towards the end of the "Age of Reason," and specifically Wesleyan Methodism. (The French proved that the "reasonable" didn't need any help from …
Ann Coulter's characterisation of John Edwards as a "faggot" was unnecessary. If she really wanted to insult him, she could have pointed out that he didn't go to an Ivy League school, as we did earlier this year. This is what she did with Harriet Miers two years ago. Calling people "faggots" was an old …
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We like Michael Medved's piece on Why Liberals Hate The Ten Commandments. He hits a lot of the kinds of points we make on this site in one swipe. But he could have said something about God as a competitor of the liberal, as we did back in 2001. Evidently his liberal friends (he went …
One of the most militant expressions of left-wing Christianity was and is Liberation Theology, that creation of Latin American Roman Catholicism that brought Marx into the Church for so many years. One of the enduring slogans of that movement was "the preferential option for the poor," which means that the Church acts in such a …
It's bad enough that a federal judge has ordered a Massachusetts child to learn about the homosexual lifestyle to the end that the child will become a "productive citizen." What really hit me personally was the following: However, in April 2006 the same school presented the book "King and King," about homosexual romances and marriage, …
Continue reading "Political Correctness Resorts to Vigilante Force"
The drama that is taking place this week behind closed doors in Tanzania has created a real guessing game in the Anglican Communion. While we wait for the results--assuming there are meaningful results--let's think for a moment about an obvious question: how has liberal "Christianity" held on as long as it has? Everyone knows that …
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