We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.
Voddie Baucham Jr.
Quotations from conservative or Christian sources, speaking to the conditions of society, and countering the Left's phobia of Christian morality.
We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.
Voddie Baucham Jr.
The beauty in marriage, in which the two halves of the human race are united in a lifelong union that begets new persons, exceeds the pleasures of sexual indulgence. As we are seeing, the promises of sexual indulgence are mostly empty anyway. In contrast, Christian marriage illustrates the truth that we are meant for love, and that, when we live for something greater than our own desires, we will often find pleasure included as well.
Nathanael Blake, Why Prudes Are The Only Ones Consistently Having Good Sex
Stable natural families would be, by far, the best anti-poverty, anti-crime, and pro-education program. Thus, Christian sexual morality is integral to social justice because it protects and promotes family formation and flourishing. It is not an idiosyncratic or arbitrary religious decree or practice but, instead, is rooted in human nature and ordered toward our good and the good of those around us. Its truth and beauty are manifest in loving and enduring relationships, grounded on oaths sworn and upheld, rather than the fickle flux of day-to-day desires. This commitment provides a solid foundation for an enduring intimacy between man and wife.
Nathanael Blake, Why Prudes Are The Only Ones Consistently Having Good Sex
The United Nations, an institute built on ideals of fairness and equality, has become a breeding ground for relentless, one-sided attacks on Israel—a democratic state in the Middle East. Let’s call it what it is: institutionalized antisemitism. While Israel is held to impossible standards and vilified in hundreds of resolutions, some of the world’s most oppressive regimes walk away unscathed.
O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.75
The so-called “Palestinian national identity” is a modern construct, engineered for political exploitation and weaponized as a strategic tool against Israel. Unlike most nations that emerge from shared history, culture, or language, the Palestinian identity was cobbled together in the mid-20th century, not out of genuine heritage but as a calculated move by Arab powers to foster opposition to the Jewish State. It was an artificial project, devoid of organic roots, and aimed squarely at delegitimizing Israel’s existence.
O. Isaac, "The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths," pg.59
Without traditional reverence for the past, an ungrateful nation not only suffers a loss of knowledge but is plagued by hubris—so often the twin of ignorance—believing that it alone has discovered ideas and behaviors unique to itself and its own era, when they are in fact ancient. This closed mindset seeks a kind of perfection, a heaven on earth, instead of the good—and it ends up obtaining neither.
Imprimis, Victor Davis Hanson, American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address.
Much of our society’s current crisis derives from this personal refusal or inability to respect the property of others, to tell the truth, to stand up to the bully, to protect the weaker, and to end each day in contemplation that you were more a moral force for the common good than either a neutral observer or on the wrong side of the ethical ledger. When individual behavior and decorum falter, so does a country, which is, after all, only the common reflection of millions of its individuals.
Imprimis, Victor Davis Hanson, American Virtues – 2025 Commencement Address.
It’s also important to highlight that Palestinian Arabs weren’t passive bystanders in 1948. They actively fought against Palestinian Jews, both before and during the war. The Arab Liberation Army and local militias coordinated attacks on Jewish towns and settlements. Even before the war officially began, there was a civil conflict starting in November 1947. Palestinian Arab fighters imposed brutal sieges on Jewish cities, such as Jerusalem, cutting off food and supplies. Groups like the “Army of the Holy War” led heavy assaults and controlled critical routes, including the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
But Arab hostility didn’t start 1947. Violence against Jews in Palestine has a long and bloody history. The infamous chant “Itbah Al Yahoo” (“Slaughter the Jews”) predates the establishment of Israel by centuries. Let’s not forget the 1517 massacres by the Ottoman Empire or the 1834 Safed pogrom, where hundreds of Jews were raped and murdered. The 20th century saw a string of atrocities, from the 1920 Nebi Musa riots to the 1929 Hebron massacre and the anti-Jewish violence of the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.
O. Isaac, The Palestinian Lie: Shattering the Myths, pg.56
In some of the ancient nations, parents literally had the legal authority of life and death over their children. They could sell their children into slavery or even kill them! In ancient Rome this was codified into law and was called Patria Potestas. How barbaric this seems, but if the unborn child in the womb is a person, then laws that legalize abortion today are not that much different from Patria Potestas. Virtually the entire debate over abortion would be concluded if we answered that one question: "Is the fetus in the womb a person or not?" It is my prayer that those struggling with this question would consider what God has said about this issue in the Holy Scriptures: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you... " - Jeremiah 1:5
Brad Sherman. Pastor, former State Legislator, and candidate to be the next governor of the State of Iowa.