Category Archives: Religion & Philosophy
The Mosque Controversy
The proposed mosque near where the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed, along with thousands of American lives, would be a 15-story middle finger to America. Continue reading
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The Purple Prose of Cairo
The media purred over the “credibility” that Obama enjoys in the Muslim world. If so, it is a credibility based on either cluelessness or cynicism: perhaps Muslims don’t know about Obama’s turbo-secularism, or, if they do, they just don’t care, figuring that they at least share a common enemy –Christianity. Continue reading
The Consolations of Pessimism
It’s been clear for a while, at least since the collapse of Lehman Brothers last fall, that what we have to fear above all is hope itself. Attempts to trust that the worst is over and to stop frightening ourselves seem doomed to propel us into yet worse disappointment. We are not only unhappy, but—believing calm and happiness to be the norm—unhappy that we’re unhappy. Continue reading
Dan Brown’s America
Brown is explicit about this mission. He isn’t a serious novelist, but he’s a deadly serious writer: His thrilling plots, he’s said, are there to make the books’ didacticism go down easy, so that readers don’t realize till the end “how much they are learning along the way.” He’s working in the same genre as Harlan Coben and James Patterson, but his real competitors are ideologues like Ayn Rand, and spiritual gurus like Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra. He’s writing thrillers, but he’s selling a theology. Continue reading
Obama to be prayer day no-show
President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning. Continue reading
‘Too Christian’ for Academia?
The PC war on an academic press’s encyclopedia of Christianity. “This is probably the first instance of mass book-burning in the 21st century.” Continue reading
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