Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Unthinkable Or Inevitable?

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     After the parliamentary systems piece appeared, I got an inquiry from a reader about religious affiliations among political parties. H...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

The Antidote For Spiritual Poison: A Belated Rumination

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     There are many ways to be unhealthy. One can be diseased in the body, disordered in the mind, or afflicted in the soul. Each of those c...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

A Loss Of Some Magnitude: A Sunday Rumination

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     As I prepared myself for Mass this morning – and remember, it’s Gaudete Sunday, so be sure to get in some rejoicing – I was struck by ...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

Concerning Religious Freedom

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     Among the more alarming things the various Democrat candidates for the presidency have said, they’ve agreed that “religious freedom” mu...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Friends, Or Allies At A Distance?

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     Clearly, it is futile for the Church to try to mollify a hatred so ancient and so deep as the Jewish animus against Christianity. Despi...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

“Religious Freedom” Part 2: Rights In The Raw

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     I’ve received a fair amount of email since I penned the previous piece on this subject. Quite a bit of it was incredulous in the ext...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

“Religious Freedom”

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     I’m snowed in this morning, and the political news has been sort of flat lately, so I thought I might address the subject of religious ...
Friday, January 27, 2017

"How Do I Learn Philosophy?"

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Some weekend reading; since I personally don't have anything especially insightful to add to Fran's recent Enemies and How to Treat ...
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Friday, November 4, 2016

But What Could He Do?

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     Among the most valuable non-fiction books of recent years, I would put Mark Steyn’s America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. ...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Religious Axes: Sharpening In Progress.

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     Novelist Andrew Klavan, a writer of considerable ability, has decided to speak of his embrace of the Christian faith in a new book, The...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Quickies: Politics And Faith

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     The supposed “wall of separation” between religion and government of which Thomas Jefferson wrote is about as badly understood as the e...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Quickies: Religion In The Workplace

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     I’m not on LinkedIn – no use for it, really – so I’ve only just learned about this:      Eric Little wasn’t trying to make a bold sta...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Getting Religion

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     The consistently excellent Dystopic’s most recent screed contains a bit I simply must excerpt:      [W]hile the Bill of Rights contin...
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