Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I went to church yesterday, as I periodically do when one of my children performs at a church service. Since I don’t take communion, I can sit in the pew and watch people as they file back from the experience. Some look businesslike, some contemplative, some uplifted and some, interestingly,
Continue readingBrutally Honest brought to my attention the fact that the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) has released a statement denouncing Israel in terms that a Hamas member or Ahmadinejad could easily love: The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces
Continue readingOn the subject of the “secular humanism religion” that guides liberals, it’s informative to read this quotation from William Kristol, writing about Obama’s sudden imperative need to do away with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the American military: But the repeal is something that Obama campaigned on. He believes in
Continue readingI got a very hysterical form letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. What’s impressive about it is that Barry Lynn, the Executive Director who purportedly authored this fevered screed, is totally uninformed about the nature of America’s Constitutional mandates regarding religion. Here’s what the First Amendment
Continue readingIt’s always interesting to hear my husband, a militant atheist, and me, a respectful agnostic/atheist, talk about the Bible to the kids. Today, my husband tackled the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. He told the kids that the whole point of the story is to remind religious people that
Continue readingThere’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Brit Hume’s “come to Jesus” suggestion to Tiger: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJKmWdJQc4[/youtube] I don’t have a whole lot to say about that, other than it goes a long way to explaining why Hume left the MSM. Not only could he not say that when
Continue readingTwo views of moral behavior, one from the source, and one from an English divine: God: Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15) A priest in England: It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to ‘prostitution, mugging or burglary’. It is true that, under
Continue readingDon Quixote and I were at the local mall. The mall was getting ready for the shopping season, and it has some special events planned. It even had a sign: If you’re like DQ and me, you realize that something is missing from the sign: there’s no mention of the
Continue readingThe Reluctant Scribe is my Dear Friend, and I am his. I may not be blessed with faith, but I am blessed with friends. All of which means that I can only hope that the Abou Ben Adhem approach to God works for me.
Continue readingJack, the ExPreacherman, emailed me a great joke: During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the Director “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?” “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket
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Continue readingThe Breitbarth site headlines the following video as follows: SHOCK DISCOVERY: COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS PRAY TO PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA With my pre-Obama mindset, I promptly inverted the language and read it as a normal sentence: SHOCK DISCOVERY: COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS PRAY TO ELECT PRESIDENT OBAMA How naive I was. This political activism group,
Continue readingI have some familiarity with Church history and doctrine, owing to my background as a European history major. I am woefully ignorant, however, about modern Catholicism — or, more specifically, modern American Catholicism. I therefore have a question for those of you who are Catholic: Does it matter to a
Continue readingThe news lines are aflutter with the fact that the Vatican has kept mum about Kennedy’s death. This is scarcely surprising given that Kennedy, although raised a Catholic, took (and sought to use his political power to impose on America) political positions that are anathema to the Church: Edward Kennedy,
Continue readingOne of the brightest lines in America, a line that goes back to our Founders and the Constititution, is the imperative rule that the American government stay out of religion. That does not mean that people in politics cannot be religious or that their values cannot be informed by religion.
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