It’s amazing how important worldview can be. Take the secular vs. the Judeo-Christian view of bad behavior and unfairly advancing self, family or friends. The secular worldview, if it were honest, would not criticize such selfish behavior, because if we are just...
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How is the U.S. to be a Christian Nation?
As noted in previous posts, there are several facets to the U.S. being a Christian nation, and here I want to focus on how the U.S. should be Christian nation. I ask the question: at the beginning of the twenty-first century, how should we live? The same way as the...
Independence Day 2011
In a December post I gave both general and specific reasons why I am certain that the Founders of this nation clearly intended for its laws and its society to be founded on Judeo-Christian principles. And that they expected the unhindered propagation of Christian...
Remembering on Memorial Day 2011
It is Memorial Day, set aside to remember all who have served our country in uniform, and especially those who have given their lives to protect our nation. Memorial Day is about honoring the individual and his or her personal decisions, not about the pros or cons of...
The Time Bomb of a Nation without Fathers
Over the last several years I’ve worried about the underappreciated critical value of fathers to families, but a recent experience has multiplied that concern exponentially. Up until now I’ve been concerned about two situations: 1. In societies where multiple current...
Is the U.S. a Christian Nation?
This is an important question, and it has several facets, each of which is worthy of reflection. For the moment I’d like to focus on whether this is a Christian nation in the sense that it is supposed to be one, or at least was one in the beginning. In this context,...
Obedience to the Unenforceable
In our friend Fitz Allison’s insightful new book, Truth in an Age of Arrogance, I found a quote by someone I’d never heard of, Lord John Fletcher Moulton. I looked him up; he was a brilliant English mathematician and jurist at the beginning of the last century. The...
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