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.
DeSantis evacuates Americans, Sweden is overrun with gang violence, and President Biden sells off half of the nation's oil reserves.
Though the great literary critic of totalitarianism, George Orwell was a man of the left. He also vehemently opposed abortion. He demonstrated his pro-life convictions both in his fiction and in his personal life, adopting a baby and devoting his life to caring for him after his wife died a few months later.
The big news continues to be the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel's response. Bloggers at Patheos have been discussing it extensively. We should join in.
Traditionally, elites signaled their social status by means of their possessions. But today even the lower and middle classes have access to what were once luxury goods. So new status symbols have arisen: beliefs, which elevate the elite over the vulgar masses and enable them to identify each other, without requiring much of them.
As church affiliation plummets and American Christians fret about becoming a minority, we would do well to remember that Christians have always been a minority. Christians seek affirmation from God, not other people, and must always maintain a certain alienation from the world. A writer relates this to the rise of liberalism and pluralism.
Some on the hard left are defending the violence of Hamas, even after information came out about its atrocities, such as massacring teenagers at a music festival and butchering infants. This reminds us that violence plays an important role in revolutionary ideologies.
The cost of Ivy-League radicalism; "preserve, protect and defend" doesn't mean "support"; and Bigfoot makes an appearance.
A few decades ago, Christians were torn over a controversy that became known as "the Battle for the Bible." Today, argues Carl Trueman, the issue is "The Battle for the Body." He points out how and why the status of the body underlies so many of the other issues that Christians are struggling with and explains what is at stake.
Abortion advocates have a new slogan: "Abortion is freedom." What is this slogan trying to do? What audience is it trying to reach? What's wrong with its underlying assumption? Can we come up with some new anti-abortion slogans?
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