Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Religion and Morality Needed for Freedom

Statesmen may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand.


John Adams, letter to Zabdiel Adams (21 June 1776)

Monday, February 22, 2021

Colleges Are Brainwashing Students Into Fear

When I see Americans walking outdoors with masks on, my first reaction is to mourn the death of reason and my second is to wonder what college they attended. Because one of the many other awful things colleges do to most of their students is make them afraid: afraid not only of dying if they pass another human being while walking their dog but also of dying from global warming, and afraid of any ideas not inculcated into them by their school. That’s why they and most of their professors object to conservatives speaking at their school. To the brainwashed, different ideas are frightening and make them feel “unsafe” (hence, “safe spaces” at so many colleges).


Dennis Prager, When 2-Year-Olds Are Thrown Off Airplanes, You Know America Has Changed.

Friday, February 19, 2021

America's Moral Free Fall

America is in a moral free fall. Just look at it as I would as a pastor. You murder the babies in the womb. If they survive the womb, you try to seduce them into transgender sexual deviation when they're young. If they survive that, you corrupt them with a godless education. If they survive that, you have divorce in the family and if they grow to be adults, you drown them in a sea of pornography. This is a nation so far down in the sewer of immorality and wickedness that nothing surprises me. In fact, I would be shocked if a judge said, "Open all the churches and close all the strip clubs.’”


John MacArthur during interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News.

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Fatherlessness Leads to Crime.

Some people, mainly on the left, think there’s nothing to see here. They’re wrong. The vast majority of incarcerated juveniles have grown up in fatherless homes. Teen and other mass murderers almost invariably have filial rupture in their biographies. Absent fathers predict higher rates of truancy, psychiatric problems, criminality, promiscuity, drug use, rape, domestic violence, and other less-than-optimal outcomes. Here’s another pertinent, albeit socially radioactive fact: Fatherlessness leads to a search for father substitutes. And some of these daddy placeholders turn out to be toxic.


Mary Ebrstadt, The Fury of the Fatherless

Saturday, February 13, 2021

How Nations Die

 Nations do not die from invasion, they die from internal rottenness.

Abraham Lincoln

Friday, February 12, 2021

If You Take the College Debt, YOU Pay It!

Policies should never entice students into greater debt, nor should they put taxpayer dollars at greater risk. There are too many politicians today who support policy that does both. We’ve heard shrill calls to cancel, to forgive, to make it all free. Any innocuous label out there can’t obfuscate what it really is: wrong. The campaign for free college is a matter of total government control. Make no mistake: It is a socialist takeover of higher education.

—Education Secretary Betsy DeVos


Thursday, February 11, 2021

"Liberalism" Is the Road to Socialism

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

—Norman Thomas

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

The LEFT Is Destroying Our History

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

—George Orwell

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Heroes vs Celebrities

Our society has replaced heroes with celebrities, the quest for a well-formed character with the search for a flat stomach, substance and depth with image and personality. In the political process, the make up man is more important than the speech writer, and we approach the voting booth, not on the basis of a well-developed philosophy of what the state should be, but with a heart full of images, emotions, and slogans all packed into 30-second soundbites.

J.P. Moreland, Love Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul, pg.21,  1997

Friday, February 5, 2021

Real Heroes

Modern culture is quick to label anyone a hero, to the point where the word has all but lost its meaning. Successful athletes are heroes. Honest politicians are heroes. People who return lost purses with money still in them are heroes. As Florence King has observed, all anyone has to do to become a hero in America today is fall in a hole and live to tell about it.


Today, such dilution of the title results from two forces opposing each other to an unprecedented extent One is that the world is desperate for heroes. It always has been. We want someone we can could up as an example to inspire us. We want to be part of a race that produces great people who accomplish heroic things; we want to be able to look at a hero and imagine that, with dedication and strength of character, we can be heroes too.


The opposing force, stronger no than ever, is a culture that discourages heroism. While we crave it as always, heroism, so rare in the first place, has become increasingly difficult to find. A society that embraces relativism and multiculturalism is hard pressed to produce a hero. If every view of the world is equally acceptable, there can be no absolute standards of bravery, sacrifice, patriotism, faith, truth, fairness, fidelity, and honor.


And without absolutes, there can be no heroes.


John Perry, Sgt. York: His Life, Legend & Legacy, pg.331

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Half-Truths

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.


Alfred Tennyson.


Cited by Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods, pg.208

Monday, February 1, 2021

A Defect of Atheism

The atheist in fact talks of the true, the good, and the beautiful, but never asks why we admire or pursue such categories. These are ideas by which we judge everything, as Mortimer Adler points out. The same applies for liberty, equality, and justice. These are ideas by which we seek to live. Wars are fought over them. Books are written because of them. If such categories exist, which of the worldviews is able to explain them or justify them or sustain them? Atheism simply cannot do it. To be sure, it has been tried.


Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Jesus Among Secular Gods, pg 56