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Why G.K. Chesterton Feared ‘Experts’0
- Culture
- June 6, 2018
A man of great good cheer, G. K. Chesterton was well known for his sunny disposition and irrepressible sense of humor. Sunny disposition notwithstanding, Chesterton did have his angry moments. How else to account for the vaguely titled “Conclusion” to What’s Wrong with the World? In it, Chesterton reveals a very different frame of mind,
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Atheist Community: Too Many Atheists Embracing ‘Troubling’ Morals 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2018
In recent years, the atheist movement in North America has begun to experience institutional rot. For example, in May, “Eiynah,” an ex-Muslim atheist based in Toronto, Canada, denounced at her Nice Mangoes blog, “blind faith, dogmatism, tribalism, homophobia, sexism, sexual abuse and harassment, transphobia ” in their movement. Darwinian atheist P. Z. Myers responded, lamenting
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Gay Wedding Cakes & Firefox: Why We Need the Freedom to Discriminate 0
- Culture
- June 6, 2018
Do you know one of the fastest ways to create strife and discord in a pluralistic nation like America? Use the government to force conformity of lifestyles and beliefs upon everyone. A pluralistic nation is one in which people of differing beliefs and worldviews agree to a general set of laws that uphold common
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Cognitive Dissonance: The Psychological Phenomenon that Explains Why Intellectuals Can’t Stop Believing Socialism Works 0
- Philosophy
- June 6, 2018
The graveyard of failed socialist states is vast. In recent decades, examples are replete: from the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the horrors in North Korea, to the recent nightmare in Venezuela, the evidence looms large and tragic. Yet among its faithful, there is a persistent belief that “real” socialism does work. (G. A.
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3 Socialism Myths Debunked by Venezuela’s Nightmare 0
- Economics
- June 5, 2018
History provides endless examples of vicious despots ruling under various collectivist ideologies. Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and—today—Kim Jong-un and Nicolás Maduro may have had different names for their collectivist ideologies, but they have resulted in the deaths of countless millions of people and endless misery for the survivors. Alarmingly, a majority of millennials would
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Four Good Non-Christian Books by Christian Authors 1
- June 5, 2018
C.S. Lewis once observed that we don’t need more Christian books, we need more Christian writers. In other words, people of faith who have the gift should write not just worthy books on prayer. They should write novels and children’s stories and cookbooks and travel books, fantasy, fiction, poetry, and drama. His point was that
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Why G.K. Chesterton Feared ‘Experts’0