Any objective observer would surely agree that we are witnessing global upheaval in multiple arenas: Political upheaval – Nations are being rocked, as seen in The elections of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Donald Trump in the USA, The impending end of Teresa May’s government in Britain and Angela Merkel’s
Earlier in this series on SOGI we wrote about the Fairness for All compromise offered to the LGBT community by two Christian associations in the US. What would be the likely consequences of this proposed compromise? FFA would, for the time being, provide protection from SOGI laws to certain faith-based
SOGI laws, like all ideas, have consequences. The logic of the 1992 Casey decision led to the 2015 “civil rights” case of Obergefell v. Hodge. “The 5–4 ruling requires all fifty states to perform and recognize the marriages of same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as the marriages
By far the most widely read of all our blogs is School vs. Education: The Difference Matters. Now Canadian essayist and poet David Solway has written a disturbing piece of similar tone at PJ Media, The End of Education. Consider this excerpt: It has taken a hundred years to ruin
At its heart, the pursuit of happiness is moral, not hedonistic. The pursuit of happiness is fulfilled in freedom – the opportunity to do good, not in license – the right to do wrong. The pursuit of happiness is found by living within the moral universe, not in seeking to
National Parliament Building of Hungary In our time, globalization as a philosophy is rapidly expanding. It is marked by moral and cultural relativism, groupthink, and the rise of the algorithm, that 21st century phenomenon which is eroding our ability to think. The individual is being subsumed into the universal. Nations
Fifty years ago, watching Francis Schaeffer write on a napkin, I learned something important about the nature of truth. And I’m still reflecting on that evening with Dr. Schaeffer at his mountain home, Chalet Les Melezes, in Huemoz, Switzerland. What he said that night and the diagrams he drew on a
We have written about the abuse of power by the “new fascists,” about their use of language as weapons. This final post in the series will address fascist bullies. Marriage and the family, both inventions of God, are under assault from a new class of bullies: fascists. Increasingly, governments are
Over the last three? generations, Western society has made two worldview moves: 1) From premodern (Judeo-Christian) theism to modern atheism, and then 2) From modern atheism to postmodern neo-paganism. These changes have powerfully affected our understanding of the concept of truth. Humans are to be truth seekers. We were designed
Recently we published, “Rape in Sweden Increased 1,472% from 1975 to 2014.” The post examined the deadly mix of postmodernism, with its dismissal of objective truth, and the violent misogyny of Islamism. Sweden’s rape experience is just the worst of several European countries that have seen an alarming growth of
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