Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If I’ve written this post correctly, it should trigger discomfort in sensitive Leftists. “Trigger warnings,” for those of you fortunate enough not to move in circles that use them, are warnings at the beginning of any information presentation, be it fact or fiction, written or oral, aural or visual. They tell
Continue readingSince the first minute gay marriage appeared on the horizon, I’ve steadfastly argued that gay marriage will inevitably create a clash between newly discovered Constitutional rights that the Founders could never have envisioned and core, explicit Constitutional rights, such as the “free exercise” of religion. I developed this idea most
Continue readingMy sister watched The Unbelievers, a documentary that follows Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss as they try to convert people to atheism, with science as the true faith. That’s all fine. If they want to proselytize to willing listeners, good for them. I have just a few comments, based upon
Continue readingBack in the 1980s, when I was a good ol” liberal Democrat (sort of in the Kennedy mold), I kept hearing those Bible Thumpers in the Moral Majority bandy about a word: “Secularist.” What the heck was that? Nobody I knew (and everyone I knew was a person of the sort-of
Continue readingBarack Obama self-identifies as a Christian. He seems, though, to find Christianity troubling. Meanwhile, although he denies being a Muslim, he obviously finds it an emotionally and aesthetically attractive belief system. Why do I say this? Because someone was good enough to assemble a list of his statements about both religions,
Continue readingMy approach wasn’t as erudite, but this short lecture much explains the intellectual process I went through to stop being an atheist. I haven’t yet jumped on board with the Biblical God (although I am deeply fond of the lessons the Old and New Testament hold about justice, morality, and
Continue readingBen Shapiro doesn’t like Noah, the newest Hollywood wannabe blockbuster, this one based loosely on the Bible. At his own website, Truth Now, and at Breitbart, he vigorously attacks the movie for turning the Bible on its head. As you read here some months ago, Hollywood has taken one of
Continue readingBefore I explain how Christians are killing Christianity (at least according to Alternet and Salon), a short anecdote: I have friends who used to joke that they would take up smoking when their kids were teens. Why? So that the kids, who they assumed would be rebellious, would rebel against
Continue readingLast week, I wrote about an image I saw in Facebook, which sought to disparage religion by showing that religion tears people down, while science builds them up: My response was to mock up an alternative poster that the little girl could have held up, one that shows that religion
Continue reading[UPDATE: If you came here from Ricochet, welcome. Having read Judith Levy’s post, I think she misunderstood the point I was making here. I obviously wrote with insufficient clarity. I’ve expanded upon — and, I hope, clarified — my point in this post.] It’s been many years since I read
Continue readingI’ve mentioned gay marriage once already today as the latest non-issue to roil the left even as the world around us crumbles (a la the 1930s), the American military is reduced (a la the 1930s), and tyrannies are rattling their sabres (a la the 1930s). Overnight, the same liberal who
Continue readingMatt Lewis nails the core issue when it comes to the LGBT crowd’s demands that shopkeepers engage in acts contrary to their religious conscience: But let’s be honest about something else. This is really a surrogate battle. A much bigger one is coming. [snip] The reason conservative Christians are fighting
Continue readingMona Charen has written an excellent article about the Obama administration’s use of Obamacare as a vehicle for attacking religion and religious people. I urge you to read it. I was particularly struck by one point Charen made, regarding Sebelius’s previously stated view about religious accommodation — to wit, that
Continue readingQuestion for you — when you think of mass weddings, does your mind head in the direction mine does, and think of the Moonies? The cult followers of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, after all, have long been famous for their mass weddings. It makes sense that Moonies would happily go
Continue readingPlus ça change, plus c’est la même chose; or, the more things change, the more they remain the same. In 1960, Protestant Americans were afraid that a Kennedy election would mean that the Pope would have a say in American politics. In 2014, with the Pope having been anointed (inaccurately)
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