From Reg: "Let's do a thought experiment. If the Palestinians all put down their weapons and stopped fighting, what would happen? There would be peace. If the Israelis laid down their weapons and stopped fighting, what would happen? There would not be a Jew left alive in the entire Middle East." Is he wrong?
Robespierre's justification for the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution gives clues to the mindset behind today's terrorism. And his fate shows why that tactic is not only evil but self-defeating.
Holidays that derive from Christianity have a joy about them, something noticeably lacking in their anti-Christian counterparts. For example, consider how the French Revolution celebrated its holidays, such as the "Festival of the Supreme Being."
Today's churches are also in need of a Reformation, and others have put together lists of theses according to the issues they think need to be addressed. Let us here at the Cranach blog celebrate Reformation Day by posting theses of our own, not on a church door but upon a website, the modern day equivalent.
The Gaza hospital hoax, the terrorist drug, and Silicon Valley is giving up on news.
What's the difference between how a conservative thinks and how a liberal thinks? Konstantine Kisin, discussing progressives who have become conservatives after the Hamas attack on Israel, cites Thomas Sowell, who defines the two mindsets as a "constrained vision" vs. an "unconstrained vision."
It is being said that we are living in the most dangerous time in decades. Do you think the U.S.A., as things currently stand, is equipped to deal with these dangers?
A conservative Catholic argues that the current liberal pope should lead to a reversal of the current overemphasis on the papacy in Catholicism, a development in the doctrine of the papacy that would return the office to a more modest role, as it was in the early church.
Responding to the Vatican's Synod on Synodality and its discussions on sex and gender, Anthony Esolen warns against making the sexes indistinguishable, interchangeable, and meaningless.
A recent poll shows that rank and file Americans from both sides of the political divide have also turned against Constitutional self-government: 31% of Trump supporters and 24% of Biden supporters believe that democracy is “no longer viable” and that America should try some other system.
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