Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Americans’ very different reactions to COVID make me wonder how much our vanishing Judeo-Christian heritage factors into those reactions. America embarked on two diametrically opposite paths once the first COVID panic ended. Leftists embraced an approach intended to do anything and everything they could to avoid the possibility of dying
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Leftism is just another faith, but it’s more cruel than the Judeo-Christian tradition as its creed does not recognize remorse, repentance, and redemption. This is a rather discursive post, but there are a lot of ideas and facts I want to tie together to explain why I argue that Leftism
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There’s a scary paganism to the unbridled blood lust that appears wherever Judeo-Christian ethical monotheism is in retreat. Ethical monotheism underpins Western civilization. It’s a gift from the Jews, transmitted to large parts of the world through Christians. It is the idea that there is a single God. Unlike pagan
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A powerful HBO documentary about the beginning and end of using children as camel jockeys highlights the difference between Islam and Biblical morality. One of HBO’s better shows is Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. It has a 60 Minutes format which sees it have three relatively “in-depth” stories per hour
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Talking to my child and reading about a friends’ child, left me wondering whether it’s enough to believe in God without God also believing in you. For many decades, I’ve counted among my friends a married couple made up of two of the nicest, most decent people in the world.
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Today, for the first time, I noticed striking differences between the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions involving both happiness and predestination. Daniel Greenfield wrote about the interview Chelsea Handler did with Kumail Nanjiani, the Muslim star of HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” He complained that popular culture fails to focus on what fun
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With his usual acuity, Dennis Prager explains that true morality exists only if there is a God. Absent God, people just opine about what they like or dislike. The phrase “moral relativism” gets thrown around a lot. The Right things it’s bad; the Left thinks it’s good — indeed, that
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