Post Tagged with: "culture wars"

by Matthew P. Cavedon: “…when the floodwaters of the world are out, as they are today, it will not suffice to be borne along by the current, singing hallelujah to the river god.”—Russell Kirk Something has happened to sex. It has always been a very important part of the human […]

by Matthew Cavedon: I recently read Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Creating Atheists. It was terrible, managing to span the distance from historical obliviousness to political totalitarianism. Why am I reviewing it here? Misery loves company. Boghossian, a professor of philosophy at Portland State University, bills his effort as the first […]

by Prof. Patrick Garry: Religion continues to take a beating in the political arena.  In the wake of Governor Brewer’s recent veto of the Arizona law providing legal protections to business owners who, for deeply held religious convictions, refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings, the political Left has intensified […]

by Tim Reuter: Decline always sells. People enjoy discussing or predicting the collapse of civilizations and social systems, whether it is Rome or Communism. Judging by the amount of ink spilled on doom mongering today, the United States is probably hopeless. Fiscal and demographic oblivion beckon as neo-paganism contaminates the culture. […]

by Matthew P. Cavedon: Less than a month after a military coup saw Egypt’s government arrested for the crime of being too religious, it was interesting to read Tim Reuter and Josh Carlson’s ongoing debate over the future of conservative Christians in American politics. Tim is right that conservative Christians need […]

by Tim Reuter: On December 9, 1931 a democratic government of republicans and socialists passed a liberal constitution to modernize their country. Religion, seen as causing stagnation, was a primary target. The document proclaimed a total separation of church and state, legalized divorce, banned clergy from teaching children, and governed […]

Why the Religious Right Needs to Turn Away from Their Preoccupation with Power and Regain Their Moral Legitimacy by Tim Reuter: “There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America” ~Tocqueville, Democracy in America The Religious Right […]

by Peter Smith Several recent events, both parochial and national, indicate the transformation underway in British public discourse. Every October since 2004, the Battle of Ideas has been run in London’s Barbican Centre, a trendy arts establishment in the heart of the City. The Battle is a weekend-long series of […]