Religion

Gen Z Is More Religious Than You Think 2
- Culture, Featured, Religion
- August 20, 2024
Many Americans believe our world’s becoming more secular. While that’s true, many of today’s fastest-growing religious denominations aren’t progressive—they’re traditional. Here’s what the data show. In the 1990s, 90 percent of Americans identified as Christians on Pew surveys. Today, that number has fallen to about 67 percent. Among young adults, over 40 percent are religiously
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Is Islam Imperialist?2
- Religion, Featured
- August 12, 2024
English philosopher Antony Flew once commented that Islam was “best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.” This is a rather provocative notion, but it’s not as implausible as it seems. Arab imperialism is a very real phenomenon. As James Sinkinson writes, “Arabs are the most successful colonizers
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Do Evangelicals Care More About Trump Than Jesus?10
- Culture, Featured, Politics, Religion
- August 7, 2024
Are Christians united more by politics than Jesus? In a recent Washington Post opinion article, author Shadi Hamid argues that a peculiar partnership has emerged between politics and religion: Those who profess to be Evangelicals largely support former President Donald Trump. In the article, Hamid asks, “How can people who prize moral rectitude and personal
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Lincoln’s Last Hope: A Political Religion 11
- History, Featured, Politics, Religion
- July 29, 2024
People love to talk about the crisis facing America today, but few take a moment to consider all of the terrible challenges that the nation has faced. Millions of Americans can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, stagflation, the crime waves of 1970s and 1980s, and any number of other disasters. So while
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Karl Marx’s Obsession With the Devil 6
- Economics, Religion, Western Civilization
- July 10, 2024
It’s well known that Communism killed 100 million people — but few are aware of the obsession Communism’s founder Karl Marx had with the Devil. Karl Marx (1818–1883) is the economist and social theorist whose enduring footprint on the world is the political system known as Communism. Born in Germany but spending most of his
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Were the Founders Deist? Here’s One Sure-Fire Piece of Evidence Against That Idea 6
- Religion, History
- July 5, 2024
Although some of America’s Founding Fathers were deists, rather than Christians, the United States owes a debt of gratitude to a Judeo-Christian moral framework that goes beyond mere deism—and the proof is in the Declaration of Independence itself. Deism refers to the belief that God created the world and endowed human beings with reason, but after that, he
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