The American Dream was never intended to keep religious activity out of the marketplace. ======= By Kate Bachelder Dec. 18, 2015 6:32 p.m. ET If religion in America is dying, then someone will have to explain Eric Metaxas. The happy warrior for a muscular Christianity displays nothing but confidence about the durability of belief in modern America. In fact, he seems to hope... Read more
Archive for the ‘Western Civilization’ Category
Death of God Exaggerated
December 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Religious Persecution, The Left, Western CivilizationAmerica the Indispensable
December 13 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correct, The Left, Western CivilizationI would be much obliged to hear dissent from the views shared here by Robert Murdock. =========== WSJ – 12-2-2015 Before I thank Henry Kissinger, and before delivering my modest message, I feel obliged to alert college students, progressive academics and all other deeply sensitive souls that these words may contain phrases and ideas that challenge your prejudices. In other words, I formally... Read more
Vision and Leadership
November 26 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationWSJ – 11/23/2015 On April 27, 1982, I sat across the cabinet room conference table from President Reagan as I briefed the National Security Council on our plans for ending and prevailing in the Cold War. In the midst of my presentation, Reagan peered over his spectacles to ask, “Why can’t we just push ’em over backwards?” The assembled wise men mumbled... Read more
World Order in Crisis
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Europe, The Left, Western CivilizationI have slowly drifted from supporting American military involvement in “other’s affairs”, but this article has given me pause. Have you noticed how far the world as “disintegrated” in a mere 7 years from what “stability” there was in the past 60 or so? And what did America’s involvement have to do with the order we have had during this... Read more
Wonderland: Missouri and Paris
November 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Losing Freedom, The Left, Western CivilizationHeading for moral disaster. ========= Daniel Henninger. WSJ – 11/19/2015 We are back where we came in. After 9/11, 98 U.S. senators voted to pass the USA Patriot Act. In time, the political and moral solidarity of that moment dissolved. The words “Patriot Act” became anathema on the global left—a moral affront. How long will the solidarity of Paris last? Before Islamic terrorists murdered... Read more
That New-Time Religion
October 4 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationA link from my son, who warns that the piece is long, but worth the read. I agree. =========== https://www.claremont.org/article/that-new-time-religion/ “…America’s more recent secular faith is far less coherent, organizationally and intellectually. What abideth is the disdain of the redeemed for the unredeemed, and especially for the unrepentant. The post-Protestants, whom Bottum also calls “the elect,” have rejected “benevolent toleration,” the “broad-shouldered acceptance... Read more
