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  • What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?

    What Did Hannah Arendt Really Mean by the Banality of Evil?0

    Can one do evil without being evil? This was the puzzling question that the philosopher Hannah Arendt grappled with when she reported for The New Yorker in 1961 on the war crimes trial of Adolph Eichmann, the Nazi operative responsible for organising the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in

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  • Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America

    Poll Reveals the Least Religious Parts of America0

    This month, Gallup released the results of their annual poll on religious practice in America.   The most religious state? Mississippi, which has held the crown since 2008. According to the poll, 59% of Mississippi’s residents report being “Very religious,” meaning that “religion is important to them, and they attend religious services weekly or almost weekly.”

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  • If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting

    If Current Laws Had Been Followed, There Would Have Been No Waffle House Shooting0

    On Monday afternoon, Tennessee law enforcement officers captured a 29-year-old Illinois man suspected of opening fire on diners at a Nashville Waffle House, despite the man having had his firearms seized on multiple occasions in the last two years. Four people died and several others were wounded by the shooter—who wore nothing but a green

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  • 6 Reasons Evangelical Churches Should Consider Giving Confession a Shot

    6 Reasons Evangelical Churches Should Consider Giving Confession a Shot1

    As a child, the Catholic rite of confession always seemed mysterious to me. I once asked my father why our church didn’t do that. He offered a lengthy exegesis on the nature of sin and how it separates humans from God, adding that God alone can atone for human sin. Or something along those lines—I

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  • What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?

    What if Women Had Voted on Women’s Suffrage?0

    G.K. Chesterton’s What’s Wrong with the World contains a section of feminism.  By way of providing an accurate preview of what’s to come, he titled it “Feminism, Or the Mistake about Woman.”  Yes, G. K. Chesterton had his differences with the feminist movement, then in its infancy.  Chief among his differences was the mistaken view

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  • Kanye West: Stop Embracing Victimhood and Start Thinking

    Kanye West: Stop Embracing Victimhood and Start Thinking0

    Confession time. I’ve never known much about Kanye West. The basic extent of my knowledge runs as follows: He’s some type of musician (a rapper as it turns out – I had to look it up). He’s married to Kim Kardashian. He has a creative sense of humor when it comes to naming his children.

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