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The New Scarlet Letter

May 10, 2013
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The New Scarlet Letter

What do Tim Tebow, the US Military, Chris Broussard and Chick-fil-A have in common? They are all examples in 2013 America that our cultural elites HATE Christians, and will do anything they can to silence, delegitimize, stigmatize, and demonize them. Western cultural elites have always hated Christians, but the boomer venerated 1960s started a process of culture forming professions being taken over, so to speak, by secular progressives. By now media, entertainment and education/academia are totally dominated by these people who literally despise conservative Christianity.…

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You’ve Got to Be Kidding!!! Bill Maher Defends Christianity!!!

April 21, 2013
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On my morning visit to Real Clear Politics I see a link that makes me think I must have woken up in an alternate reality, where Spock has a beard and Bill Maher is a defender of the Christian religion. That link proves to be real, ‘Maher To Defender Of Islam: Equating Christianity And Islam “Liberal Bullshit.”‘ Bill Maher, atheist extraordinaire, who has said that religion, most especially Christianity, is a mental disease, actually has a moment of clarity and rebukes a liberal agenda pusher…

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What’s So Bad About Uncle Tom?

January 28, 2013
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What’s So Bad About Uncle Tom?

I’ve often wondered these several decades of my political awareness why the term “Uncle Tom” is used by modern liberals as an epithet. As is easy to do in our Internet age, a quick read of the Wikipedia entry on “Uncle Tom” gives the basic outline, but given I seem to be immersed in antebellum America lately, having read “What Hath God Wrought” and having just watched the PBS series “The Abolitionists” I figured it would be a good time to finally read “Uncle Tom’s…

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Les Misérables Didn’t Make Me Totally Miserable!

December 29, 2012
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Les Misérables Didn’t Make Me Totally Miserable!

You see, I’m not a big fan of musicals. Yes, I guess you could say, I’ll admit it, I’m a musical hater. But it could be I’m getting soft in my old age. When I heard that a film was being made of the Broadway hit Les Misérables I yawned. But my daughter sure didn’t; she was ecstatic. And the wife thinks musicals are great too. Being a fan of Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel I figured I’d join them to see what this musical adaptation…

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Wanted Dead or Alive: Opinions About Why We Shouldn’t Believe in Christ’s Resurrection — and One Dissent

April 2, 2012
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Wanted Dead or Alive: Opinions About Why We Shouldn’t Believe in Christ’s Resurrection — and One Dissent

"Religion is a symptom of irrational belief and groundless hope."

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Shocking Entertainment Has Some Exalted Company

January 26, 2012
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Shocking Entertainment Has Some Exalted Company

Most Americans no longer have a close familiarity with the Bible and the stories of the Bible. Even many Christians only have a very cursory knowledge of it, basically what they get at Church every Sunday, or whenever they go. My knowledge of The Book is more than cursory, but it had been decades since I read it from cover to cover, and after all that time I’m sure I needed a refreshing on the narrative of God’s progressive revelation.

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A Western Government Declares BC/AD To Be Un-PC

September 13, 2011
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A Western Government Declares BC/AD To Be Un-PC

— and some people aren’t at all happy about it: Australia is to remove the birth of Jesus as a reference point for dates in school history books. Under the new politically correct curriculum, the terms BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini) will be replaced with BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era). The Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, yesterday condemned the move as an ‘intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history.’ He described the phrase ‘common era’ as ‘meaningless,’…

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“Hitler’s Bible”

August 20, 2011
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“Hitler’s Bible”

On the CMI website, Russell Grigg tries to set the record straight: Elimination of the Jews in Nazi Germany was not confined to the Holocaust. It also took the form of rewriting the New Testament to ‘dejudaize’ it, i.e., to remove references to Judaism and to recast Jesus as an Aryan, generating what has been called the ‘Nazi Bible’. This has been the subject of some sensational and substantially erroneous claims, including that the project was Hitler’s brainchild. In 1930s Germany, the ‘German Christians’ (Deutsche…

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Books Reviewed: The Saga of Father Aillil

May 28, 2011
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Books Reviewed: The Saga of Father Aillil

By Mike Gray “Norway is great because we’re wolves in a world of sheep!” The calendar says it has been nearly a thousand years since the advent of Christ. But for Father Aillil, the priest of a recently converted Viking lord, the news of the “White Christ” is only now penetrating into Norse culture — and it’s meeting considerable resistance. Erling’s Word (1997) Collected in The Year of the Warrior (2000) “I think you’re as fair as a summer morning with the sun rising over…

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To Hell, or Not To Hell? That Is the Question

April 19, 2011
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To Hell, or Not To Hell? That Is the Question

There is a debate going on in certain (Protestant) Christian circles about Hell, strangely enough. Hell doesn’t get much press nowadays, and not many ministers are fond of preaching about it. It’s so pre-modern. Thus it doesn’t surprise me that this debate was stirred up by a pastor of a mega-church in Michigan, Rob Bell, who soft pedals the idea of Hell in a bestselling book called “Love Wins.” I haven’t read the book, which came out last month, and I don’t plan to, but…

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“Spartacus” and What if Christianity Had Never Been

March 12, 2011
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“Spartacus” and What if Christianity Had Never Been

As readers of this fine publication may know, I am a passionate apologist for the Christian faith. It is unfortunate that this seems to bring out so many irrationally smug and arrogant atheists, but what are you going to do. The atheists that I cannot abide think religion, and specifically Christianity, is a cancer, a mental derangement only for the weak who “cannot handle the truth!” The only contribution Christianity brought to history and society according to these types is the pathological. Of course, to…

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Atheist Alert: Do NOT Read This Book! “Unbroken”

January 21, 2011
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Atheist Alert: Do NOT Read This Book! “Unbroken”

Spoiler Alert: If you have heard of and plan to read the best seller, “Unbroken,” and if you don’t want to know details of how the story ends, you will not want to read any further. And it really is a worthwhile read. Literally everyone likes it. So if you want to read it, bookmark this and come back after you’ve finished it. Actually, this would be a fantastic book for atheists to read, because it would challenge some of their cherished assumptions about Christianity.…

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An Atheist’s Contribution to Culture—and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Atheism

January 2, 2011
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An Atheist’s Contribution to Culture—and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Atheism

By Mike D’Virgilio I take everything back! No, not really. I’m sure all the vitriolic God-haters (yes I know, they wouldn’t say they hate God, who they believe doesn’t exist—it’s those lousy religious morons they hate) who took me to task for implying that atheists contribute nothing to Western culture won’t be commenting on what an open-minded person I’ve become. I found nothing persuasive in the knee-jerk, clichéd comments about how stupid religious people are and how logical atheists are. But after reading the book…

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Genetic Basis for Religion Found

December 22, 2010
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Genetic Basis for Religion Found

Actor-writer John Cleese explains the rock-solid evidence for atheism, in this very funny video: H/t to Bruno Behrend.

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Opera Company of Philadelphia “Hallelujah!” Random Act of Faith

November 26, 2010
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Opera Company of Philadelphia “Hallelujah!” Random Act of Faith

Once in a while something special happens in America culture to bring joy to our country’s vast population of Christians, and especially those who take their Christian faith very seriously.  We are more used to being the butt jokes and ridicule, or the object of libertarian fears, and more often than not just ignored. Just stay in your closets, or churches, and quit bothering us with your absolute standards and exclusive claims on The Truth. It’s just tough for Christians to be popular in a…

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