Bookworm on Sep 17 2008 | Filed under: Religion
The other day, as part of my “false syllogism” post, I noted the way in which the Left continues to be, as it was in Marx’s heyday, fanatically hostile to religion. If you doubt me, just check out Patrick’s gimlet eyed examination of Cintra Wilson’s attacks on Palin and other openly religious public figures, as [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
For many years, I’ve thought that people confuse fairly neutral conduct with bad motives, resulting in false syllogisms. I first came to this conclusion after reading John McWhorter’s wonderful Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. Although my memories are a bit hazy about the details of the book, I seem to recall reading [...]
Bookworm on Jul 14 2008 | Filed under: Religion
In the past two days, I’ve read two articles that examine the liberal approach to religion. The first is Hillel Halkin’s How Not to Repair the World (available to subscribers or for a $2.95 fee); the second is Mark Tooley’s Is God a Liberal Democrat? They were sort of a nice pair to compare to [...]
Bookworm on Jun 12 2008 | Filed under: Climate change, Religion
It’s an old-fashioned concept: Some horrible disaster happens, and the victims (or the observers) ponder it, and then pronounce, “It’s God’s will.”
Nobody would say that now, right? We’re rational, scientifically oriented creatures who search for meaning in everything/ We would never shrug and, Job-like, admit that meaning can elude us and that [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2008 | Filed under: Religion
Over at National Review, Kathryn Lopez interviews Steven Waldman, who is an editor at BeliefNet.com, and who just wrote a new book: Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. In it, he carefully examines the way in which the Founders envisioned faith playing out in America, and the [...]
Bookworm on Mar 18 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Media matters
The AP is diving into damage control, assuring us that, not only is Pastor Wright just your ordinary black improvement activist, but his style of rhetoric is dying away anyway:
As shocking as they may be, the provocative sermons of Barack Obama’s pastor come out of a tradition of using the black church to challenge its [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Religion
I love the Anchoress’ blog, which I think is amazingly well-written, intelligent, humorous, humane and full of insight. I therefore find myself in the peculiar position of disagreeing with her twice in as many days.
The post at issue is one the Anchoress wrote in the wake of the “aha!” journalism that suddenly sprang up [...]
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