A Lesson from the Nuremberg Trials and Today’s Morality Problem
We’re beginning to hear from Hollywood insiders that Hollywood “has no moral authority.” It’s not just Hollywood. By what standard is morality determined today? How many times have we heard, “You can’t impose your morality on me”? In what way is it morally right for women to impose their view
Is This the Reason For Mass Shootings and Other Acts of Violence?
A federal judge has ordered Lehigh Valley County, Pennsylvania, to remove the cross from its seal. He says it violates the Constitution. The cross represents the reality of sin, separation from God, and the redemptive work of Jesus Christ to reconcile us to God. The judge in the case “made
Could Convicted Murderers Go Free If Atheist Group Wins Case?
Shari Webber-Dunn “received a minimum 40-year sentence after her conviction on first-degree murder charges following the shooting death of her estranged husband, Scott Webber, in 1994…” She filed a lawsuit this week, “alleging that prison officials have been ‘imposing Christian beliefs’ on her and other inmates…. She says officials there
Atheist Says Your Brain is Just a ‘Meat Computer’ and You Don’t Have Free Will
The long-term consequences of brains, bodies, and babies are that in the end that we are nothing more than meat machines that are only receptacles to perpetuate the species by passing our genetic makeup to future generations. If this is so, and a scientist like Jerry Coyne tells us as much, then in the future there will never be a valid moral argument against genocide.
Can Atheists Account for Morality?
If there is no God, can there be morality? I’m not asking whether atheists are moral people and do moral things. They do, but by what unimpeachable and ultimate standard? An atheist might say that certain laws are good for the advancement of the species. But let’s not forget that
Robotics’ Revolution Proves Something-From-Nothing Evolution Never Happened
By evolution. I do not mean changes within species. Long before Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species, dog, horse, and cattle breeders1 knew about the positive and negative effects of acquired traits in selective breeding. By evolution, I mean something-from-nothing, molecule-to-man evolution. If a scientist can’t demonstrate
Why Do Millions of Christians Ignore Politics?
Let’s get a few preliminaries out of the way. First, there is no doubt that there are few differences between the two major parties. With both Houses of Congress owned by the Republicans, one would think that the claimed differences would have come out and the GOP would have fought
Can Anyone ‘Be Good for Goodness’ Sake’?
The American Atheists organization has trotted out its anti-Christmas — actually anti-God — billboards again: “Go Ahead and Skip Church! Just be Good for Goodness’ Sake. Happy Holidays!” There’s so much that’s bad about this that I don’t know where to begin. First, the use of “Happy Holidays.” A holiday
‘Either by the Bible or the Bayonet’
On May 28th, 1849, Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), a descendant of Governor John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, served as a Representative and Senator from Massachusetts and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He also served as the president of the Massachusetts Bible Society for several
Bernie Sanders is a Socialist with Power and a Government Club
A meme is going around showing a young man being pushed aside by an armed police officer. Here’s what’s written over the image: Arrested for fighting for civil rights for African Americans. Name this guy. The bespectacled young man is Bernie Sanders. Good for him. He stood up for the
Ten Commandments Battle in Oklahoma: Will It be OK to Steal and Murder?
A Ten Commandments monument has been removed from the grounds of the State Capitol in Oklahoma at the insistence of the ACLU. What makes a law a law? Why is it wrong to murder, steal, and lie, three of the Ten Words (Decalogue) found in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5
The Slow and Long Road to Moral Degeneracy
Most radical ideas have been hidden from the general public and only burst forth after of time of deep seeding in the culture through art, music, the educational establishment, entertainment, and the media. These radical ideas were sold to the American people as a more grand goal. “Everything must be
What Liberals Refuse to Acknowledge About Gun Violence
“Let’s be clear: At some point we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries,” President Obama said in response to the murders that took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Why Atheists Can’t Account for Human Rights
Harvard Historian Richard Pipes writes the following in his book Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime: “The Communists attacked religious beliefs and practices with a vehemence not seen since the days of the Roman Empire. Their aggressive atheism affected the mass of citizens far more painfully than the suppression of political
Ben Carson and President Obama Agree Homosexuality is a Choice
Dr. Ben Carson got eviscerated by the media because he claimed that people who engage in homosexuality do so by choice. Dr. Carson’s analogy about prisons was not the best example to use to make his case, but the choice factor is a given. And even if choice is not
Chuck Todd Asks Ben Carson How Religion and Science Can Coexist
NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Dr. Ben Carson the following question: “You’re a famed neurosurgeon, the best — some say — the best pediatric neurosurgeon living in the world today. You’re a man of deep faith. Explain how science and religion, in your mind, co-exist.” Chuck Todd should be asking how
What the Media Don’t Want You to Know About What Evolutionists Teach
The media continue to pounce on Gov. Scott Walker for not dealing with an out-of-context question about evolution at the end of an hour-long appearance at the prestigious Chatham House think tank in London where he was on a trade mission. What does a question about evolution have to do
Atheism Has No Remedy against Evil, and That Includes Acts of Terrorism
Denouncing all religions, as atheists do, only elevates its own version of faith over all other belief systems. What is its ethic? Why should anybody follow anything an atheist has to say? By what standard? Whose atheist version of law? Atheists have denounced religion as the source of all evil