Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If I had to do a list of the real problems behind school shootings, I’d say (in no particular order)…. One: Fatherlessness, which results in a defective generation of young men. Two: Abortion, which results in a generation of young people who believe life has no value and that individuals
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3rd Day of Christmas, St. John the Evangelist, Religious Tolerance, Soviets Liquidate the Kulaks, Hagia Sophia, Kepler, Whitefield, and More . . . Holidays and Observances on December 27 Today is the Third of the Twelve Days of Christmas Feast of St. John the Evangelist & The Blessing of the
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Modern astrophysics is a faith just as surely as traditional religion is — but the astrophysicists are too arrogant to admit to that fact. Regular readers know that a troll came through here this past weekend castigating religious believers as idiots and wrapping himself in the scientifically pure flag of
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We’re told atheism is a rational response to the Bible’s factual failures. That’s a cover story. Atheism is really about an illusory freedom from Big Rules. I’ve been thinking a lot about aggressive atheism. Or put another way, I’ve been wondering why atheists are so determined to erase God from
Continue readingI continue to be unpleasantly overwhelmed by deadline intensive work. Breaks are few and far between. The virtue of this is that, separated from the minutiae of daily news, I’ve had the opportunity to step back and focus on larger trends. My musings today too me into the realms of
Continue readingMy sister watched The Unbelievers, a documentary that follows Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss as they try to convert people to atheism, with science as the true faith. That’s all fine. If they want to proselytize to willing listeners, good for them. I have just a few comments, based upon
Continue readingMy approach wasn’t as erudite, but this short lecture much explains the intellectual process I went through to stop being an atheist. I haven’t yet jumped on board with the Biblical God (although I am deeply fond of the lessons the Old and New Testament hold about justice, morality, and
Continue readingBefore I explain how Christians are killing Christianity (at least according to Alternet and Salon), a short anecdote: I have friends who used to joke that they would take up smoking when their kids were teens. Why? So that the kids, who they assumed would be rebellious, would rebel against
Continue readingMy very strong sense is that the shutdown will reveal how much of our federal government is inessential. I’m not the only one who feels this way. And no wonder, because the shutdown reveals waste everywhere. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Monopolies are invariably poorly managed and unchecked bureaucracies invariably
Continue readingI have no problem with atheism, having been an atheist for large chunks of my life. I do, however, have a problem with atheists’ concerted attacks on religion, which I think bespeaks precisely the type of intolerance atheists swear they oppose. That’s why I found so amusing Catholic Vote’s list
Continue readingThe Arizona legislature had an atheist “prayer”: Arizona State Rep. Juan Mendez (D) turned a Tuesday afternoon prayer into something much more. The Phoenix New Times reports that Mendez, who is an atheist, changed the course of the event held prior to the House of Representatives’ afternoon session. He asked
Continue readingWhen I was young, I was an atheist, in that I didn’t believe in anything at all. As I’ve grown older, however, I find that I cannot sustain a belief in nothing. Interestingly, my belief that there is some intelligent or design force out there that is infinitely greater than
Continue readingA lot of people have been crowing that the “God particle” proves that there is no God, because it explains the “something from nothing” aspect of the Big Bang. These people forget one thing: Where did the so-called God particle originate? Dennis Prager is more erudite than I am, so
Continue readingSuek posted this is an open thread, but I thought it was too good to keep hidden: Marines are taught: 1) Keep your priorities in order and 2) Know when to act without hesitation. A MARINE was attending some college courses between assignments. He had completed missions in Iraq and
Continue readingRicky Gervais distinguished himself well yesterday by savaging the same people who usually savage us, the ordinary Americans. The video makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing, since the victims of Hollywood’s barbs are usually sitting anonymously in theaters and living rooms, not in the same room in which the insults are
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