Have a happy, but thoughtful Memorial Day. I know it’s mainly become just the beginning of the summer holidays, the first bratwurst of summer (in the words of Those Darned Accordians). Enjoy that part of it, but the holiday was started as a commemoration of
In trying to explain Pope Francis’s statement about atheists that we blogged about, a Vatican spokesman, Father Thomas Rosica wrote a piece entitled Explanatory Note on the Meaning of ‘Salvation’ in Francis’ Daily Homily of May 22: Reflections on Atheists, Christians, and Who Will Be
Pope Francis preached a homily in which he pretty much said that atheists too can do good and therefore can go to heaven. (Notice the assumption that salvation is by good works and not by faith, which is being presented as not really necessary.) The
The Boy Scouts of America voted to accept gay members. The ban against homosexual scout masters and other adult leaders remains in place. According to gay ideology, sexual identity is innate, not formed, so it makes sense to speak of homosexual children. (more…)
What a difference 68 years makes! The most popular country in the world is Germany. Japan is 4th. The United States of America is #8, barely beating out China. Details and complete rankings after the jump. (more…)
I’d like to spin off from our reflection a comment Lars Walker made, as we blogged about yesterday in the post The Bible and Liberty: As Paul Johnson notes in Modern Times, moral relativism always leads to Totalitarianism. Because in a morally relative age, power
Christian scholar Mary Eberstadt has a new book entitled How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization. From the editorial description at Amazon: In this magisterial work, leading cultural critic Mary Eberstadt delivers a powerful new theory about the decline of religion
Officials have learned that the dead Boston Marathon bomber was involved in an earlier triple homicide. His accomplice in that murder confessed under questioning but attacked interrogators with a knife, whereupon he was killed. In the meantime, two men in London assaulted and beheaded an
Lois Lerner, the IRS officer who first disclosed that the agency had been targeting conservative organizations, invoked the 5th Amendment’–“I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself”–in refusing to say anything at a Congressional investigation. (more…)
In the course of recounting an online argument, novelist Lars Walker gives an excellent account of how the Bible gave ordinary men and women the conceptual ability to question their rulers, thus, in his words, turning them “from subjects to citizens.” (more…)
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