Townhall.com | Frank Pastore | May 6, 2007
Their titles sound so confident:
• The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam by Michel Onfray.
The Kennedy Catastrophe: Banishing Religion from the Public Square
Townhall.com | Ken Connor | May 6, 2007
For quite some time in America, frank public discussions about candidates’ religious views have been deemed verboten. The trend began in 1960, when John F. Kennedy found that his Catholic faith was proving to be a liability with Protestant voters. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to run for president since Al Smith’s landslide defeat in the 1920s, and throughout the campaign he met significant resistance from detractors who were deeply suspicious of the Catholic faith. Hundreds of anti-Catholic tracts were sent to millions of homes across America discouraging voters from supporting Kennedy. Many refused to vote for the young Senator from Massachusetts because they did not agree with his religious beliefs, and this created a crisis for the campaign.
Jim Wallis: Polarizer or Unifier?
Townhall.com Janice Shaw Crouse April 17, 2007
Jim Wallis has devoted his whole career to trying to force the round peg of leftist ideology into the square hole of biblical orthodoxy. When he wrote his “vision” designed to “transcend” the ideologies of the religious left and right, he ended up further polarizing instead of unifying the two evangelical movements. He rails against the “political language” of the right as well as the tendency of conservative evangelicals, in his opinion, to claim their use of scripture as authoritative. In so doing, Wallis hoists himself on his own petard.
Thousands are baptised in Beijing, while in Zhejiang two priests are imprisoned
Asia News Bernardo Cervellera April 10, 2007
The wave of new conversions makes it difficult to find sufficient godparents. In the interim of the Pope’s long awaited letter to China’s Catholics, the Patriotic Association’s iron fist is felt, particularly in Hebei and Zhejiang.
Beijing (AsiaNews) – Thousands of people were baptised into the faith in Catholic churches across China on Easter night. Yet in some areas the underground Church is still subjected to persecution and imprisonment.
Biblical Liberation from Liberalism
Townhall.com Michael Medved April 11, 2007
With the arrival of the eight day Passover Festival on Monday night, I was preparing some material for our family-reunion Seder meal (Diane and I will be together with all three of our children, plus my visiting father from Jerusalem) when I stumbled across one of the most important of all verses in the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Easter “Hit” Parade
Culture and Media Institute Brian Fitzpatrick Eye on Culture — Volume 1, Issue 7 April 4, 2007
Cultural elites launch a veritable blizzard of attacks on religion during Christianity’s holiest time of the year.
Isn’t it simply Easter season, when fresh Gnostic gospels or dubious ossuaries show up like spring daffodils?
Paschal greetings in different languages
| English: | Christ is Risen! | Indeed He is risen! |
| Albanian: | Khrishti unjal! | Vertet unjal! |
| Aleut: | Khristus anahgrecum! | Alhecum anahgrecum! |
| Alutuq: | Khris-tusaq ung-uixtuq! | Pijii-nuq ung-uixtuq! |
| Amharic: | Kristos tenestwal! | Bergit tenestwal! |
| Anglo-Saxon: | Crist aras! | Crist sodhlice aras! |
Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming
My Way News CAIN BURDEAU April 7, 2007
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming.
“He’s one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he’s doing a great disservice and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech.
Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition
Real Clear Politics William F. Buckley April 3, 2007
The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last week by writing, “Sometimes you read something about this administration that’s just so shameful it takes your breath away.”