Last week, Randy Cohen, “The Ethicist” at the New York Times , asked that very question : Etiquette holds that religion, especially another person’s religion, should be treated with deference or, better still, silence by nonbelievers. Hence the familiar dinner-party injunction: . . . . Continue Reading »
Information is pouring out about the red-flashing warning signals that the Fort Hood killer was a homocidal fanatic. Here’s NPR’s account via Instapundit this morning:EXPLOSIVE: Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’. (Via The BlogProf). On NPR I heard . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaker Nancy Pelosi-no democrat, small “d”—wants to shove her 2000 + page monstrous bill down our throats by forcing the House to vote before anyone—including legislators—can absorb all its provisions. Toward this imperious end, she scheduled the vote for a rare . . . . Continue Reading »
Tom Bethel has been riding an anti-relativity-theory hobby horse for years. He has recently published an article questioning the theory of relativity in the American Spectator . I have never met Mr. Bethel. I am sure he is a fine fellow; but he should stick to subjects he knows something about. . . . . Continue Reading »
The British biologist J. S. B. Haldane used to say that if biology had taught him anything about the nature of the Creator, it was that he had “an inordinate fondness for beetles.” If we can learn a similar lesson from astronomy it might be that God has has an inordinate fondness for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Benedict Arnold sell out the Revolution, because the strain of fighting a difficult cause?Evidently on MSNBC the first reaction to a gunman killing troops is to blame the fact that troops have to be troops. The strain of deployment, the job these men and women signed on to do, has pushed them . . . . Continue Reading »
“Every anti-choice group in the country is pulling out all the stops to derail health care reform,” Planned Parenthood announced this week. “For example, right now, Catholics are being asked to contact their legislators, telling them to alter current health care legislation to . . . . Continue Reading »
Much discussion has been had by Christians today (and in past ages I’d imagine) of the role of the Christian should take in the public square, especially in a modern multicultural democracy. People speak derisively of a Christian ghetto and/or the consequences of withdrawal. Others promote . . . . Continue Reading »
The differences between the United States and Canada are not always easy to discern on the surface, but they’re there. One of these concerns post-secondary education. Here in Ontario this field is dominated by a very few provincial universities, some of which may have had Christian origins but . . . . Continue Reading »
Those who want to use this creed as the basis for their concession speech have to grasp first that the creed was not the means by which the universal and apostolic church all held hands and sang the Greek version of “Kumbaya”. It was the means by which the church was separating itself from egregious error. Continue Reading »
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