Two points to be made here: 1) The percentage of those who identify as Christians in the United States and Europe is quite clearly falling, though that doesn’t mean that nonbelievers are “hostile” to the faithful. 2) Hostility comes in …
Category: Sustainability
Why Love Can’t Speak Loudly
My wife and I often have discussions around this point. Why can’t people of kindness and decency speak as loudly as the greedy and the liars? It’s simply not their nature. Great thinkers have been saying this for thousands of …
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Televangelists in Hell
Lots of jokes have been made about the passing of Pat Robertson, and the possibility that he’s burning in hell as God’s retribution for the televangelist’s having taken advantage of our nation’s poorest and most ignorant people on his rise …
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Making Incremental Progress Re: the Planet’s Environment
At left: Düsseldorf in 1990 and 2019. Does this mean that we’re making progress at the global level? No, but it does suggest that progressive actions can lead us all forward.
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Marketing To the Anti-Woke Crowd
From these folks: “Our mission is to promote Godly values, provide excellent coffee, and protect every beating heart.” In fact, this coffee may be terrible. Perhaps horribly bitter, or utterly flavorless. That’s not the point. There is one thing that …
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America’s New Values Are Perverse
Those who remember Ayn Rand from her mid-Century novels will recall that she popularized, for a short period of time, the idea that altruism was intrinsically evil, claiming it to be incompatible with human rights, freedom, and capitalism. That thinking …
How Sacred Is Human Life?
In an uncountable number of cases that happen around the world, on a daily basis, we treat our dogs and cats with far more concern and compassion than we do human beings. Here at home in the U.S., we have …
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Losing Our Kids to Gun Deaths–Some in Our Schools, Some In Our Own Homes
Here’s an excellent article that examines why we are losing an increasingly large number of our toddlers to shootings by their young siblings. You may have known, for instance, that a gunshot to a small body is more likely to …
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The World’s Water Shortage
The only thing I know about the book here is the word “Worlds” in its title needs an apostrophe. This doesn’t make a good first impression.
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Does Ben Carson REALLY Want My Thoughts on Education?
My #1 thought about American education is that Ben Carson can only worsen it further. A reader, Margaret Morris, asks: How do you improve education? I respond: Though I’m not an expert, here are three ideas. 1) Proper funding for …
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