Christian Acumen: Discussing Worldviews from a Thoughtful Christian Perspective
There are a number of versions of the old Indian fable “The Blind Men and the Elephant” that are often used to illustrate that objective truth is unknowable. A sample of this illustration might read something like this, “The first blind man touched the side of the elephant and exclaimed, ‘how rough, an elephant is [...]
Carol Platt Liebau has written an interesting article on Townhall.com elucidating the danger in seeking judges that “empathize” rather than adjudicate. Liebau writes, When a President emphasizes the importance of “empathy,” the more proper question becomes not whether a particular judge has empathy, but rather, for whom? After all, empathizing with a woman who wants [...]
With today being the National Day of Prayer, it seems appropriate to look back upon the wisdom of leaders past and to pray earnestly for such wisdom in our leaders today. President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of a National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, in the year of our Lord, 1863: WHEREAS, the senate of [...]
Dennis Prager debuts his “Prager University” with this video explaining how the American experiment has been unique among the democracies of the world. “E pluribus unum, Liberty, In God We Trust” are the bedrock of what has allowed America to be great. Today all three values are under siege from within. E pluribus unum (out [...]
With the California Supreme Court hearing the opening arguments today on the validity of Proposition 8′s passage, Dennis Prager played a clip on his radio show today of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome in which the mayor tries to appeal to emotion by arguing that he thought America was beyond believing that “separate but equal” [...]
Stand to Reason has a heartbreaking post about government intrusion that should have everyone alarmed. Social Services in the U.K. has ripped a 5-year old boy and his 4-year old sister from the care of their grandparents under the force of government to give them (through adoption) to a homosexual couple. The grandparents were deemed "too old" [...]
A full two and a half weeks after the passing of Proposition 8 in California, protesters continue to gather in cities across America demanding their “rights” with signs reading things such as “Love not H8″ and equating their struggle to the genuine civil rights struggles blacks endured a generation ago. One can understand the desire [...]
Read full article In what has become as predictable as the sunrise, the war on Christmas is back, this time with a little flare. An organization called the American Humanist Association is spending $40,000 to place ads on Washington D.C. buses with this picture. The ad asks "why believe in a god?" and answers with [...]
