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“The King’s good servant, and God’s first.”
2008
“They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last, and always.”
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture, Politics, Religion
Correction: Via email I’ve been informed that Ben Stein is in fact opposed to the war in Iraq. My sincere apologies to him. I’m reminded again why I had resolved to forgo the blog method of calling out individual personalities by name (why I sometimes break that resolution is mere laziness–it’s just so easy to [...]
Filed under: Culture, Religion, Uncategorized, War
No, not because he’s an “appeaser,” and not because he’s a crypto-Rev. Wright-style racist–the standard Republican charges against Obama are silly. We should be afraid because he is just like most Democrats and some Republicans in that he believes the government should run our health care. Even if you don’t get really upset about government [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture, Economics, Election, Religion, libertarianism
There has been much discussion of Steven Pinker’s broadside against the President’s Council on Bioethics and its recently released report on Human Dignity and Bioethics, an article that begs the central question under discussion in its first paragraph when Pinker asserts that embryonic stem cell research will benefit many and make “no one worse off,” without ever arguing, much [...]
President Bush, we learned today, gave up up the mixed pleasures of the golf course in 2002 in order to be war president. The idea of being seen in a pleasant, pastoral, and even artistic setting while American parents learn that their sons have been killed was apparently embarrassing to the [...]
Leon’s post below about mentioning government “health visitors” reminded me of a topic that’s been haunting me and some of my Catholic conservative friends in recent weeks.
In Texas, the government raids a “compound” of polygamist breakaway Mormons, on an accusation of abuse that proved to be fraudulent. The state of Texas (the same government that [...]
Filed under: Culture, Religion, libertarianism
A group of Evangelical Christians recently unleashed a manifesto on the world. Well, sorta. It’s twenty pages long. And as Alan Jacobs explains in today’s Wall Street Journal and in a smart blog post for The American Scene, it raises many more questions than it answers.
Jacobs writes:
Once all the self-description is out of the way, [...]
JENSEN
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it, is that clear? You think you have merely stopped a business deal — that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb [...]
Well, the above title is just another attempt to play around with Rev. Wright, Right and Wrong. And here a suggestion for a title for a reponse: Righting Rev. Wrong?
In any case, Dan was discussing whether the media’s reactions to “the religious Right and the religious Wright” reflected a double standard. His post was in response [...]
E.J. Dionne reminds us that there are far more influential political pastors than Reverend Wright who have intimated the God condemns America:
Two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Jerry Falwell, appearing on Pat Robertson’s “700 Club,” declared: “I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and [...]