Every fall in my Econ 101 course, during the last class period before we part for Thanksgiving, I share a lesson from early American history. It is particularly timely, because it deals with those we credit with the first American Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. Upon arriving in New England, the Pilgrims shared...
Besides the Golden Rule which Jesus commanded as the ultimate social ethic, another Biblical account of Jesus's teachings is given in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard...
It is often claimed that Christians are required to submit to government, as this is supposedly what Paul commanded that we are supposed to do in Romans 13. Thus, Paul writes: Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are...
The story of Jesus commanding us to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s is commonly misrepresented as His commanding us to give to Caesar the denari which he asks for (i.e., to pay taxes to government), asâ€â€it is assumedâ€â€the denari are Caesar’s, being that they have Caesar’s image and name on them. But...
If Jesus was serious about the Golden Ruleâ€â€and He certainly wasâ€â€then it necessarily means that He is a consistent libertarian, as the Golden Rule as a political ethic is completely congruent with the libertarian Nonaggression Principle, i.e., that no person or group of people may initiate the use of force against another, or threaten...
Some of the thinkers most opposed to theories of design are also the most preoccupied with it. Richard Dawkins wrote The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence for Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Stephen Hawking’s recent book was titled simply The Grand Design. The two books share common purposes: to explain and defend theories...
“If we give in on religious liberty, we will lose credibility with oppressed peoples around the world. We give a license to the states that violate human rights. We fail to assist totalitarian states in their movement toward freedom. And, most of all, we cease to be true to ourselvesâ€â€cease to be a nation...
What you thought you knew about Jesus was not the whole storyâ€â€Jesus is far more radical than many would have you believe....
Responding to Frank Tipler’s Proving the Existence of God, Prof. Tipler doesn’t here get into all the details of his identification of the cosmological singarity with God (likely due to space considerations), focusing mainly on the definition of God as being the uncaused first cause, a definition held by all the Abrahamic religions. Yet...
In 1966, Stephen Hawking published his first  completely valid  proof for the existence of God. Over the next seven years, he followed this with even more powerful valid theorems proving God’s existence. So how did Hawking, who successfully proved God’s existence, remain an atheist? Simple. He simply denied that the assumptions he...
Kennedy’s election was a milestone in American political history. Although numerous Americans voted against him primarily because he was Catholic, his victory opened the door for other Catholic (and Jewish) candidates to run for the nation’s highest offices.
Over 70 Christian leaders and denominational heads have signed a letter saying that questions about the religious philosophy of the president of the United States should be ignored and suppressed by the major media.
“THEN GOD SAID, I GIVE YOU EVERY SEED-BEARING PLANT ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE EARTH, AND EVERY TREE THAT HAS FRUIT IN IT.” GENESIS 1:29-30 Good Friday, 1962, fell on April 20. That morning, 20 university theology students — all men — delivered themselves into the hands of Boston University researchers in the basement...
The first purpose of MND has always been to explore the scope and contours of “misandry in popular culture“. Long-time readers of this website know that misandry comes in many flavors, and that it is part of a larger complex of social ills which can be generally described as feminist postmodernism. Thus, MND’s coverage...
The iconic image of the “self-righteous” religious believer is a cliché of postmodernism. Dogmatic clerics in the middle east smile with satisfaction while they denounce the infidels. Cable TV preachers wince ecstatic eyes to heaven, praising God all the way. The famously self-righteous Jerry Falwell smirked with conviction that the 9/11 atrocities were “divine retribution”...
First Star Trek predicted the normalization of racial diversity. Then it was cell phones. Now it’s a “theory of everything.†Is there anything Star Trek can’t predict? In an episode called “Shore Leave,†first broadcast in 1966, the crew of the Enterprise visited a planet where any thought  even an idyll one â€â€...
Over the past few years I have had the privilege to have known a native Ugandan missionary named Mike Wangolo. He is the leader of a team of Africans called Afri-Tendo (http://www.thrustministries.org/) who make periodic trips to the United States to witness to Americans through native songs and dances. During his travels he has...
A Revolutionary War Colonel, he built the fortifications at Breed’s Hill and commanded the militia at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775. He fought in the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. His name was William Prescott, born FEBRUARY 20, 1726. After the Boston Tea Party,...
The Internet-based group “Anonymous” has released statements on YouTube and via a press release, outlining what they call a “War on Scientology”. Church of Scientology related websites, such as religousfreedomwatch.org have been removed due to a suspected distributed denial-of-service-attack (DDoS) by a group calling themselves “Anonymous”. On Friday, the same group allegedly brought down...
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