Some great assessments of the shortcomings of atheism: While we can seek to take atheists seriously (after all, some of my readers were former atheists,…
Statism and its war on God: This is a follow-up piece to an earlier article I wrote on political religion. In that essay I spoke…
Statist religion and its war on Christianity: Because God exists, and because we are all made in his image, that means all people are inescapably…
Sadly, many Christians seem indistinguishable from secular humanists: There is much more to being a Christian than simply claiming to be one. All sorts of…
Everywhere we look we find conflict. There are political wars, there are ideological wars, there are culture wars, and there are religious wars. Overwhelmingly, behind…
Hmm, a contradiction here? An oxymoron? We know that the word ‘secular’ is synonymous with terms like non-religious, non-spiritual, non-church, temporal, worldly, etc. Secular is…
I am reading the book of Exodus again and I had just gotten up to chapter twenty, where the Ten Commandments appear. I found myself…
The decline of a culture can take place by means of a billion small steps. Individually such things may not seem like much, but taken…
Some folks have declared April 1 to be National Atheist Day. Be that as it may, in the past four or five years a spate…
In the Judeo-Christian scheme of things, idolatry is perhaps the defining sin against the one true God. An idol is anything that we dedicate ourselves…
One keeps coming back to the dictum attributed to GK Chesterton: “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing.…
The first sentence of the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence is well known. It reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…
It is to GK Chesterton that we attribute the line, “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He…
Modern man is in a bad way. Everywhere we see people in the modern Western world in crisis and chaos. The signs of disintegration and…
Penn Jillette is one half of the magic and comedy act, Penn and Teller. The pair is famous – or infamous – for, among other…
Ideas have consequences, and worldviews matter. If we happen to have a bad worldview, it will lead to bad results. For example, Hitler picked up…