Islam, America, and Religious FreedomEver since the horror of 9-11, Islam has been a highly charged topic. Anything involving the death by immolation and defenestration of three thousand innocent office workers, to say nothing of watching kidnapped journalists getting their heads chopped o... |
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God and Man at HarvardHarvard University, which was founded 130 years before the United States, has always had a fundamental influence on American educational practice. With its ancient and storied history combined with by far the richest endowment of any educational institu... |
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The Limits of Religious FreedomAll the political harbingers point to 2010 as being a devastating year for Democrats as American voters spew out all the high-octane statism they've been force-fed for the last year. Just because Americans don't like current Democratic policies doesn't ... |
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Hitler's Big Mistake and Islam's Big AdvantageFrom the early days of the internet as global discussion and debate between far-flung groups of ordinary people became possible and even routine, attorney Mike Godwin made a trenchant observation:
As a discussion grows longer, the probability of a com... |
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The Wrongs of Rights 4: Of Nuptials and Thoughtcrimes I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- attributed to Voltaire
For centuries, American schoolchildren were taught to honor the memory of the Pilgrims who braved the dangers of icy Atlantic O... |
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What To Iran Is the Fourth of July? A few weeks back, Mr. Obama invited Iranian diplomats to join their American counterparts at U.S. embassies all over the world for our annual Independence Day celebrations. This outstretched hand of friendship to a totalitarian theocracy could hardly h... |
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The Wisdom of Professor Obama Last April 14 when Mr. Obama was still in a two-candidate race with Hillary for the Democratic nomination, National Public Radio reported that he had accused a great many rural voters of being bitter.
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Hearts of Darkness 8 - Religious Marketing A man died and went to heaven. Upon arrival, St. Peter offered to take him on a tour, and he readily agreed. They saw the Throne of God, the angel choir, the mansions of the great missionaries and apostles, and all the fantastic sights of Paradise.
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Hearts of Darkness 7 - Church and State The concept of any separation between church and state was invented by the men who wrote the US Constitution and their immediate intellectual forebears. Until that time, known to historians as the Enlightenment era, the idea of government not being dee... |
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Hearts of Darkness 6 - A God of Order or of Chaos Most people today, when asked about the relationship between science and religion, would likely answer that they are inherently opposed. We've all heard how the Catholic Church forced Galileo to recant his belief that the earth revolved around the sun,... |
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Hearts of Darkness 5 - One God or Many A major variation in the concept of God is whether there is one God or many gods. Throughout history, most people appear to have been polytheists who believed in many gods. Polytheism is dominant in Japan, China, most of Asia, Africa, and traditional ... |
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Hearts of Darkness 4 - The Nature of Man An individual's view of God greatly affects his world view. Islamic terrorists gleefully murder thousands of "infidels" on the command of their god; America's founding fathers based their political philosophy on the belief that God cares about everyone... |
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Hearts of Darkness The recent terrorist atrocities in Bombay, India, have forcibly returned the War on Terrorism to global attention. People in the West have been lucky for some time now in enjoying the absence of terrorist attacks. You've certainly had other things to ... |
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Another Drug Problem Someone who appreciated our articles about the War on Drugs sent us a clipping of a letter which has been around the Internet and which has appeared in a number of newspapers:
The other day, someone at our local store read that a Methamphetamine lab ... |
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Words Versus WorksTo say that Mr. Obama is a magnificent orator is to say that the surface of the sun is a trifle warm. This is a good thing in a President. The day-to-day job of being President of the United States includes a lot of cheerleading. When Mr. Reagan took ... |
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Christopher Hitchens Doesn't Get ItNot long ago, a friend gave me a copy of Christopher Hitchens’ God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. No, this friend is not Satan. Despite being a Hitchens fan, I set the book aside for as long as possible. Why? Because, having seen the auth... |
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