Our country has been torn apart by culture wars. Now we are facing education wars, as various initiatives on the federal and state level are planning to require critical theory, gender ideology, and leftwing political activism in the public schools.
Our country has been torn apart by culture wars. Now we are facing education wars, as various initiatives on the federal and state level are planning to require critical theory, gender ideology, and leftwing political activism in the public schools.
Some critical theorists are denying that the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, offering evidence-free arguments, despite an overwhelmingly massive amount of evidence--including from the Aztecs themselves--that they did.
A proposed "model curriculum" in ethnic studies for California public schools, has children chanting prayers to Aztec gods. There are LOTS of problems with these exercises, which also lay bare the bankruptcy of a certain strain of progressive education.
Sean Fitzpatrick tells the rather humorous story of how St. Patrick baptized King Angus, then applies it to situations when church members are hurt by their pastor.
Time was, American ideas that were exported around the world had to do with freedom and democracy. Today, the American ideas we are exporting are critical theory, political correctness, and "woke" ideology. And some countries--such as France--are pushing back.
Some on the left are saying that "cancel culture" doesn't really exist, that it's nothing more than "criticism." But Jonathan Rauch disagrees, explaining the difference and giving six definitive signs of cancellation.
The $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill amounts to the largest government social program since the New Deal. And some progressives are crowing it marks the dawn of Social Democracy--that is, the European-style welfare state--in America. And that it will bring the working class back into the Democratic party, relegating conservatives to political exile.
Progressives look at problems in terms of systems and equality, whereas Conservatives stress personal responsibility and freedom. Of course, it isn't quite as simple as that.
St. Patrick's Day reminds us that Europeans too were brought to Christianity by missionaries. St. Boniface, another Englishman, evangelized the German tribes. He too has some colorful stories.
Many American Christians lack the neighbor-centered ethic and the understanding that God works through other people and physical means, as taught by Luther's doctrine of vocation. This is evident in the evangelical controversy about the COVID vaccine.
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