The Good Guys won this round. Prof. Kenneth Howell, who was fired from the University of Illinois for teaching Catholic dogma in an “Introduction to Catholicism” course, has been reinstated … for now.
Daily Archives: August 1, 2010
Gnostic-in-Chief?
On WorldNetDaily (WND), Ellis Washington shows us how a first-century religious heresy is intimately connected to twenty-first-century politics: Regarding American liberalism, pick any utopian socialist – from Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Clinton, Carter, Obama, to the useful idiots of atheism, feminism, gay rights, civil-rights activists, the labor and teachers’ unions – and you will find a person who thinks his knowledge base (politics) is superior to virtue; that the Bible is a collection of myths that isn’t to be taken literally; that moral relativism holds that all religions lead to “god” and that no religion is better (or worse) than any other; that separation of church and state is the singular dogma of liberalism; that there are no miracles, God or need for a savior. The State is god, and god is the State. The state under socialism will give everyone heaven (utopia) on earth through cradle-to-grave care. Private property, liberty and independent man are all relics of a bygone era …. Doesn’t the ancient cult of Gnosticism, which systematically sought to pervert and denigrate Christianity, sound strangely similar to modern political liberalism, which, since the Enlightenment Age, systematically sought to pervert and eliminate Christianity from the marketplace of ideas? Washington
‘Why Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism’
In his decision in the controversial 2005 Dover Area School District case, a clueless district court judge concluded—among many other things well outside his purview—that there’s no contradiction between Neo-Darwinism and theistic belief. But in an article at AiG, Jerry Bergman amply demonstrates how wrong His Honor was: Many, if not most, eminent biologists openly disagree with and have expressed this disagreement in the strongest terms possible. Just about every one of the scientists who would differ with the judge are evolutionists: “Evolution substituted a naturalistic explanation of cold comfort for our former conviction that a benevolent deity fashioned us directly in his own image, to have dominion over the entire earth and all other creatures.” — Stephen Jay Gould “Mutation and selection have jointly driven the marvelous process that, starting from microscopic organisms, has yielded orchids, birds, and humans. The theory of evolution conveys chance and necessity, randomness and determinism … this was Darwin’s fundamental discovery, that there is a process that is creative, although not conscious.” — Francisco Ayala “ implications of modern science produce much squirming among scientists, who claim a high degree of rationality. Some, along with many liberal theologians, suggest that
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