If God is dead, everything based on His existence—love, morals, truth, beauty, the significance of each human life, etc. … all of that is dead as well. So is education. Fredrick Nietzsche put it this way: When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality
Why does the world hate the Jews? Dennis Prager relates Hitler’s answer to this question. “We are fighting,” he said, “against the most ancient curse that humanity has brought upon itself. Against the so-called Ten Commandments, against them we are fighting.” His life’s mission, he said, was to destroy “the
Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why are the Jews God’s chosen people? Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why have Jews been so persecuted throughout history? I have pondered these questions much of my adult
The United States is being torn apart. We might better be called the Divided States of America. We are two distinct peoples sharing one topography. Janeane Garofalo, a comedian and political activist, expressed this division in unforgettable fashion: [W]hen I see the American flag, I go, “Oh my God, you’re
In an increasingly polarized America, religious liberty is eroding. Surely most observers of American society would agree that we are becoming more polarized. We are a nation divided. In fact, we are actually two very different nations sharing one geography, two nations enlivened by two very different moral and metaphysical
Yesterday I received a letter from a dear friend from Asia. He and other Asians are watching the US elections; he was wondering why Darrow Miller and Friends had not written anything about the 2020 election. So I thought it might be good to share with our larger audience a
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And
God made humans to be free. But free societies do not fall from heaven; they are born within the hearts of people, grounded in biblical principles, and established through obedience to all that Christ commanded. That mandate comes in the context of a war for the hearts and minds of
To keep their friends happy, students in Russian schools routinely cheat for one another, or at least look the other way. According to the annual Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations Project, one in seven university students in Russia admits to cheating on exams. Further, one in twenty-five admits to
At heart of the biblical narrative, both in the Hebrew and Greek testaments, are two related fundamental revelations: the nature of man and the nature of freedom. Judeo-Christian theism reveals that human beings are made in the image of God. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image,
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