Any serious consideration of racism in America needs to recognize several important distinctions. Black Lives Matter vs black lives matter The first is to distinguish between Black Lives Matter as an organization and black lives matter as a conviction. BLACK LIVES MATTERTM is an international advocacy organization focused primarily on
In the previous post I suggested that the most influential “prophets” whose creative thinking gave birth to the toxic new religion—were Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci. Both were products of Western culture, so to speak, but were solidly in the atheistic stream. Their ideological forebears included the continental philosophers Rene
Did you hear the one about the Marxist who praised religion? Sometimes truth issues from a most unlikely source. Melchizedek, king of Salem, appears as if from nowhere to bless Abraham, patriarch of God’s covenant people (Genesis 14). Balaam, who presents as a pagan priest in some ways, repudiates Israel’s
[The following post, refreshed from its original publication, is highly relevant to the current political-economic environment.] The global economic crisis is, at its root, a moral and metaphysical crisis. Our economic principles and polices are founded on assumptions which are either theistic or atheistic. One set of assumptions fits reality the
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