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
Because we live in a moral universe, the application of the moral law makes a difference. Ethical monotheism breaks the cycle of poverty and contributes to the development of nations, the transforming of pagan nations into civilized nations. The proclamation of the good God and the obligations of a moral
Throughout history the Jewish people have been persecuted. In the last century Hitler and the Nazis sought to wipe the Jews from the face of the earth and succeeded in killing over 6,000,000 in the Holocaust. Today anti-Semitism is rising globally. Political Islam has called for the destruction of the
Richard Hausknecht was a New York City ob-gyn. His specialty was high-risk pregnancies. The New York Times asked him to comment about partial-birth abortions, during which a fully developed baby is partially extracted from the mother’s birth canal, the head left inside, the skull opened with a pair of scissors, the
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