"In northern Europe, theism has almost died out, and is heading that way too (but slowly) in the U.S., the slowness being due to historical colonial reasons."
"In northern Europe, theism has almost died out, and is heading that way too (but slowly) in the U.S., the slowness being due to historical colonial reasons."
My high school alma mater is a Catholic school, and it’s been gathering some national attention this week after rescinding an invitation to its graduation keynote speaker because not only is he gay, but as well engaged to be married to another man. These facts were not volunteered to the school’s principal when he made the offer to speak, but discovered later by a visit to the young actor’s Facebook page. Apparently it came as a surprise to the erstwhile speaker, also an alumnus of…
"...cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiah and his Holy Spirit.” - Matthew 28:19, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Arabic version.
These are the titles of a couple books I read recently, and they go together perfectly. The subtitle of Ten Tortured Words is instructive: “How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America . . . and What’s Happened Since.” I can see the secular atheist types sharpening their metaphorical pens, but they have a minor problem: History. The distortion of the Founders intent regarding religion and state goes back to the 1947 Supreme Court’s majority decision in Everson v. Board of Education. But…
— 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,’…
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…
What is it about the term American Exceptionalism that so disturbs modern liberals. We know the term wouldn’t have bothered older liberals, say like America’s Founding Fathers, who thought their little experiment in limited government and liberty was pretty special. With the GOP presidential campaign heating up The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen is hearing too much about this American Exceptionalism and he just can’t take it anymore. “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in…
The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens, in the face of imminent death, is doubling down on his atheism, and what is mildly disturbing, on his invective against people of faith. And it’s not so much the invective that annoys, but the deeply dishonest and distorted nature of it. I suppose there is a body of militant atheists so completely devoid of humility and honesty that they would actually believe Hitchens’ drivel, but I’d like to believe that most people who choose to be atheists have some…
By Mike Gray [N]one of us has a fully coherent solution to the problem of theodicy [look it up]. But the problem is not exactly new — every great religion has dealt with it, and most of the brilliant minds in history retained their faith in God despite all the unjust suffering they saw. The difference today is that life has been so good for most Westerners that suffering is no longer regarded as part of life, but as an aberration that can be done…
By Mike Gray “I am not prepared to accept anything that disagrees with my naturalistic conceptions … [that] over hundreds and millions of years of development man has developed downwards, to become ‘Homo sapiens’.” — Adolf Eichmann You probably have never heard of Eichmann. Russell Grigg explains who he was: Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) was one of the principal architects of the Nazi Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically murdered. His task was to maintain the killing capacity of the concentration camps by providing…
Do you believe in Richard Dawkins? Your faith in him might be shaken after listening to this. (Audio: 6 minutes 6 seconds.)
What I'm saying is that whatever world view you adopt, even if it's materialistic, a metaphysic comes with it. And that metaphysic provides a form for the nut's nutty ideas. Religion does not drive people to madness or violence. Religion—like ideology, and even literary theory—simply forms an armature on which the insane person sculpts his personal monster.
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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