The Learning Curve

It is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically, facing the vicissitudes of life. Religion is evolutionary man’s supreme endowment, the one thing which enables him to carry on and “endure as seeing Him who is invisible.”

Let The light In

On a billion screens like yours, a billion people are watching the technology of search transforming millions of isolated books into the Library of All Human Knowledge. The old saw has been turned on its axis: a lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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A President with a Cosmology would be— A great president? Or the Greatest President.

GOD Acts Out Again

The wrathful God of Ezekiel and Isaiah receives some well-deserved toadying from a grateful Mark Miner, spokesman for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Miner supplicated himself before the angry monarch on the Governor’s behalf, in recognition of God’s recent horrific oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce …

Eternity Road: The Isle of God

One of the more astonishing voids in Christian theology is the abject conceptual poverty and shear lack of knowledge about where God supposedly abides: Paradise. There are just three mentions of Paradise in the Bible, and two of those are actually confused references to other places, while the third is a mere mention of Paradise by Jesus to the thief, …

When Culture Goes Crazy (UPDATED)

The failure of America’s leaders to recognize the importance of unifying her cultural factions by finding ways to bring them together in respect and intelligent patriotism has resulted in an all-out culture war…

Please Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell

What’s that smell? Can’t you smell that smell? —Lynyrd Skynyrd STEVE DOUCHEY: All right. Thank you very much for teeing up that clip.  Joining us, very much alive this morning, is Senator John Sidney McCain, affectionately known around here as Captain Underpants. Good morning to you, Captain, sir. SEN. UNDERPANTS: What?  We’re already on?  I’ve gotta change my— um— okay. …