Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 299
October 6, 2014
A quarter of Americans want to secede
Forty-five percent of Scots wanted to secede from Great Britain, and other secessionist movements are building up steam around the world (the Catalonians in Spain, the Flemish in Belgium, the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey, the Russians in the Ukraine, etc.). And according to a recent poll, almost a fourth of Americans would like their [Read More...]
October 3, 2014
A Christian movie without the Christianity
A new “Left Behind” movie comes out today, this one with Nicholas Cage and big Hollywood studio connections. But, according to Christianity Today movie critic Jackson Cuidon, this story–supposedly, like the novels and earlier movies it is based on, about the Last Days according to premillennial theology–has NO Christianity in it. Yes, one might say [Read More...]
The persistence of eugenics
You might have thought that eugenics–the attempt to breed a master race by keeping inferior sorts from having children–perished with the Nazis. But no. . . . From Michael Brendan Dougherty, The troubling persistence of eugenicist thought in modern America – The Week: It’s hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. [Read More...]
The Royals and the other playoff teams
After a thrilling 12-inning game that went back and forth all night, the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics to win the American League wild-card slot. That’s the first time the Royals made it to the playoffs in 29 years. They were the first team that inspired me to start following baseball seriously–back in the [Read More...]
October 2, 2014
Protestant monasticism?
Some Protestants are calling for a “new monasticism,” the establishment of communities and religious orders devoted to prayer and the spiritual life. This movement first manifested itself among “progressives,” featuring a big dose of leftist political activism and being reminiscent, really, of the Christian “communes” of the 1960s. See The Twelve Marks of a New [Read More...]
The abortion talk
My daughter has published a brilliant article in the Federalist! I am so proud. From Mary Moerbe, NPR Forced Me To Have The Talk With My Six-Year-Old: It crept up on me, but it was suddenly time to have the talk. I switched off the radio as I was driving my oldest daughter to a [Read More...]
The jihadists’ “Mein Kampf”
Foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius draws attention to a book published in 2004 that reads like a playbook of radical jihadists. The Management of Savagery by Abu Bakr Naji calls for a strategy of drawing America into paralyzing wars and using shocking violence as a way to expose the weakness of the West and to [Read More...]
October 1, 2014
The problem with public official prayers
We believe in freedom of religion, something that is becoming more and more important to Christians in light of the possibility of official suppression. Along with that comes the rights of non-Christian religions. Public governmental meetings are allowed to open with prayer, but that prayer cannot discriminate against the various religions. Recently, a member of [Read More...]
Germany considering doing away with incest laws
The German Ethics Council, an official government agency, is recommending that the law against incest between adult brothers and sisters be repealed. Furthermore, the ruling defined “sexual self-determination” as a “fundamental right.” See the reasoning after the jump. Words from the ruling quoted in Germans May Approve Incest: “Incest between siblings appears to be very [Read More...]
Ebola comes to America
A man in Dallas has the Ebola virus, the first diagnosed case in the United States. Do you think this country could handle a plague? From CDC Confirms Patient In Dallas Has The Ebola Virus « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth: Officials with the Centers for Disease Control have confirmed that a person in Dallas [Read More...]
