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This truly is an egregious story from England:
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is [...]
Ross Douthat has some spot on thoughts here:
Obama’s overt religiosity, his emphasis on social justice, and his team’s savvy religious outreach make him a more attractive figure to many evangelical voters than any other Democratic nominee of recent vintage. Factor in John McCain’s reticence about his own faith, his much-publicized spats with religious-right pooh-bahs, his [...]
There is something bizarre about President Bush’s rapturous affection for Pope Benedict XVI. Look at this BBC video, which shows him barking “Such an honor! Such an honor!” at the Pontiff like a demented guest at a cocktail party.
It seems odd that the two leading international statesman behind the invasion of Iraq, Bush and Tony [...]
Filed under: Religion
I’m just retrograde enough to think that voting for Barack Obama because of the gesture it constitutes, whether to Black America’s or the world’s historical resentment, is an absurd way to go about selecting a president (and the source of a nifty political gimmick for a campaign already low on substance). But one can’t deny the reality of [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Religion, World
1535
“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