We should consider what is said—not with what eloquence it is said. Nor should we look at how it tickles the ears. Instead, we should look at the benefits that it confers on its hearers.
Arnobius (ca.305), 6:340. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg 550
A son … who deserts his father in order not to pay him obedience is considered deserving of being disinherited and of having his name removed forever from his family.
Lactantius (ca.304-313), 7:155. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg 499
If you had been brought up in a well-built and nicely furnished house, but had never seen a workshop, would you have supposed that your house was not built by some man, just because you did not know how it was built?
Lactantius (ca.304-313), 7:55. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg 266
The world, being made spherical, is confined within the circles of heaven…. Without a doubt, the world is beautiful. It excels as well in its magnitude as in the oblique circle and those about the north, and also in its spherical form. Yet we must not worship the world, but other its Artificer.
Athenagoras (ca.175), 2.132,136. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg.222
Note that in ca.175 they knew the earth was round, contrary to the historical revisionists who say people back then thought the earth was flat.
She is not a modest woman who strives to stir up the fancy of another—even though her physical chastity is preserved. Away with those who do not really adorn their beauty, but prostitute it instead. For anxiety about beauty is to only the wisdom of an evil mind, but belongs to deformity…. Why is the color of hair changed? Why are the edges of the eyes darkened? Why is the face moulded by art into a different form?
Novatian (ca. 235), 5:591. Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg. 177
We don’t have movies, songs or novels anymore. We have propaganda, scolding, preaching, sneering, hectoring, and smirking by the elites who control the cultural machine. Politics is their life and they want it to be ours. They can’t conceive of anything important that’s apolitical. ...
Culture hasn’t consolidated politics, instead politics has consolidated culture. Entertainment is just another adjunct of the Democratic Party. The producers, directors and actors don’t just finance the party, they make party-approved entertainment for party members. Our culture has become an echo of that of any Communist country’s agitprop entertainment. But there are no official censors or production boards, the industry took a knee and did it to itself with shareholders, advertisers and investors being taken for a ride or joining the party.
Daniel Greenfield, Politics Killed the Culture
Socialism turned good citizens into bad ones; it turned strong nations into weak ones; it promoted vice and discouraged virtue ... transformed formerly hardworking and self-reliant men and women into whining, weak and flabby loafers.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Perhaps more importantly, RFS has not reduced carbon emissions—one of the primary objectives of the policy.
The “corn boom” RFS [Renewable Fuel Standard law] created has impacted over 5 million acres of land once set aside for conservation. Landowners have filled in wetlands and have sprayed billions of pounds of fertilizer to facilitate the demand for corn to fulfill gas ethanol requirements. As a result, rivers have been contaminated and the habitat of waterfowl and other wildlife has been damaged.
Perhaps more importantly, RFS has not reduced carbon emissions—one of the primary objectives of the policy. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin found that the corn boom has released as much carbon dioxide as 34 coal power plants in one year. It turns out ethanol is not carbon-neutral, as promised, and it actually worsens gas mileage, making cars less fuel-efficient and worse for the environment.
Aside from the environmental impact, less fuel-efficient vehicles means spending more on gasoline. Ethanol delivers 25 percent fewer miles per gallon than gasoline, and ethanol-induced higher gas prices increase the impact of the RFS. Last year, the Congressional Budget Office reported that if the RFS is not repealed, gas prices could increase 13 to 26 cents per gallon by 2017. While a small group of corn farmers may benefit from the RFS, everyone is impacted by higher gas prices and less fuel-efficient gasoline.
Erik Telford, “How Pandering To Iowa’s Ethanol Lobby Hurts America”
Ethanol increases the demand for corn, which means corn prices go up. This causes prices for farmland to rise. It also raises the prices for animal feed, which makes food prices go up. Not just on meat -- prices have gone up on poultry and dairy products, as well as foodstuffs containing cornstarch, cornmeal, corn syrup and other corn products. Meanwhile, the U.S., which as recently as 2007 supplied two-thirds of the world's corn with its exports, now supplies only a little over one-third. And the amount of corn used to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV's gas tank could feed one person for one year.
Larry Elder, Ethanol: The GOP-Supported Rip-Off
A man who has had pharmacological or surgical alterations to mimic some aspects of womanhood is not a woman -- he is a pharmacologically altered or surgically mutilated man. …. Please note that these radical medical treatments and surgical procedures are performed on mentally ill children and adults. These patients are mentally ill by definition -- if they were not ill, they would not be in need of medical treatment, and their illness is not physical (their sexual organs are healthy). Their illness is mental, and for that they are subjected to radical medical intervention (including hormones of the type administered to sex offenders) and mutilating surgery.
Michael Egnor, M.D., “Gender Ideology and the Paganization of Western Culture”
That the post-Christian age has been the bloodiest in history, that the French and Russian Revolutions, both fiercely anti-religious, produced bloody despotic regimes, while the pro-religion, God-based American Revolution produced the freest country in the world -- both these facts are unknown to most young Americans. So, too, young people don't know that religious Americans are happier, commit less suicide, give more charity and volunteer more time than irreligious Americans.
Dennis Prager, Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious? The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason
Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H. L. Mencken
Anyone who derives his moral values from the Bible is essentially forbidden from using those values to shape societal norms. You can cite Ibram X. Kendi or "White Fragility" or your heart as the source of your social values, but if you cite a biblical book, you are told that violates the alleged "separation of church and state."
Dennis Prager, Why Are So Many Young Americans Irreligious? The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason
Life begins at conception, for we contend that the soul also begins at conception. Life takes it commencement at the same place and time that the soul does.
Tertullian (ca.219), 3.207, Cited in A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, edited by David W. Bercot, Pg. 172
Since there seems to be a lot of confusion around definitions lately, let me spell it out in a way that avoids all confusion: human females have the biological plumbing that is associated with producing eggs, incubating babies, and nursing babies. Human males have the biological plumbing that is associated with producing and implanting sperm. Some females are very masculine in outlook and affect; some males are very feminine in outlook and affect. No matter what, though, they remain biologically identifiable as men or women, male or female. And that's no joke.
Andrea Widburg, “The transgender crowd smacks down a funny little lesbian joke”
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.
Henry David Thoreau (American essayist, poet, and naturalist)
Our nation's morality is changing into an immoral man-centered system devoid of the divine. Through political correctness and tolerance doctrine, Americans are bullied into accepting perversity as normal and healthy, violating norms and mores that historically maintained social decency from Moses' time. Political correctness is a strategy developed by Marxists to undermine biblical values and culture to transform the West into a Marxist paradigm. It is a hammer, an instrument of destruction. Economic Marxism proved inefficient in and of itself to alter the power and influence of Christian values.
Pastor Stephen E. Broden, “The Rise of Black Girly Men”
