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  • The Cultural Illiteracy of Today’s Christians

    The Cultural Illiteracy of Today’s Christians0

    The news came recently that Family Christian Stores, the nation’s largest retail Christian book chain, is going out of business. In fact, it is interesting that the word “books” was no longer in the business’s title anymore, a good indication of the reason for the decline of Family Christian Stores and Christian book stores generally.

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  • The Cultivation of Christmas Trees

    The Cultivation of Christmas Trees0

    There are several attitudes towards Christmas, Some of which we may disregard: The social, the torpid, the patently commercial, The rowdy (the pubs being open till midnight), And the childish — which is not that of the child For whom the candle is a star, and the gilded angel Spreading its wings at the summit

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  • The Cult-Like Transgender Recruitment Model

    The Cult-Like Transgender Recruitment Model5

    Oh, the insecurities of youth! “Will I be popular?” “Can I play basketball as well as the other boys?” “Will the others let me hang out with them?” “Will boys like me?” “Will girls like me?” “Am I as strong/smart/good-looking/funny as the cool kids?” Most kids and teens endure these doubts about themselves. It’s a

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  • The Cult of Safety Explodes

    The Cult of Safety Explodes3

    It was the 1970s. Dry cleaning bags lurked quietly behind couches waiting patiently for the opportunity to pounce on the hapless child who dropped a Lego nearby. Unguarded five-gallon buckets stood brazenly in the middle of basement floors hoping to entice their next drowning victim. Discarded refrigerators prowled the land looking for unsuspecting eight-year-olds to

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  • The Cult of Niceness

    The Cult of Niceness0

    More than twenty-five years ago, in The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom pointed out that college students in the United States had become very “nice.” Students in general did not want to offend anyone and there was a constant concern to protect one another’s feelings. Bloom meant this as a half-hearted, even backhanded

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  • The Cruelty of Modern Death

    The Cruelty of Modern Death0

    Progress involves improving on the past. Once, we used leeches to suck out an excess of cancer-causing humors, or just blamed them on the wrath of the gods. In modern hospitals, we now image such tumors deep within the body, target them with synthetic chemicals or narrow beams of radiation, or excise them with clinical

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