With the recent hue and cry about the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, one would be inclined to believe that the foundations of American society are about to crumble, bringing the entirety of this nation with it. However unlikely this may be, it hasn’t stopped social conservatives from invoking every sort [...]

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Wow.
Seriously. Wow.
Pat Buchanan has been pimping his new book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, and making some interesting arguments. From CNN’s The Situation Room:

BUCHANAN: I’ve read and studied Hitler. One thing he did not want was war with the British Empire. He admired it. He respected it. He never wanted war with it. He [...]

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After reading some modern day butchering of Nietzsche’s philosophy, most recently, that of Ravi Zacharias, and the impact upon history of Nietzsche’s thought, I feel it is somewhat necessary to provide clarification on both.
Zacharias directly and obliquely relates Nietzsche’s thinking to Hitler and Mussolini. And he does this not just once, but repeatedly, without offering [...]

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“Can man live without God?” That’s a question asked by Ravi Zacharias in his book by the same name. Unfortunately, Zacharias’ book doesn’t offer any substantive response beyond tortured logic that sounds more like a diatribe from Laura Ingraham than an intellectual response to atheism.
I seriously tried to read this book. However, it is intellectually [...]

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A few days ago, I asked a very simple question:

Q. Where in our Constitution does it acknowledge or state that the U.S. relies upon the Judeo-Christian God, Christianity, or Christian morality?
A. It doesn’t. Period. God is not mentioned once. Religion appears exactly twice, once in Article VI where the “no religious test” prohibition is articulated, [...]

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May 5, 1925. A warrant is issued for the arrest of John Scopes, a high school biology teacher, for teaching evolution—in violation of state law—to a high school biology class in Dayton, TN.
The result: God goes and trial and fails to appear to defend “His” creation. In lieu of God, William Jennings Bryan shows up [...]

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