Gene Edward Veith Jr.'s Blog, page 78
May 12, 2017
The religious comeback after Communist atheism
A study by Pew Research shows the massive failure of Soviet atheism. In the 18 former-Communist countries surveyed, 86% of the population believe in God.
Trump changes his story on the Comey firing
President Trump’s order firing F.B.I. Director James Comey said that the action was taken because of how he handled Hillary Clinton’s e-mail case. Then we were told that the F.B.I. Director was fired because of recommendations by Justice Department Officials. Now in an interview with MSNBC’s Lester Holt, President Trump says that he was going to [Read More...]
Repealing chivalrous laws
The Oklahoma state legislature, supposedly a conservative lot, has repealed the criminal seduction law, which forbade seducing a virgin by promising to marry her. Also repealed was a law forbidding slandering a woman’s virtue. The state senator who pushed these repeals, a woman, thought the laws were funny. She also said they were “obsolete, antiquated, inappropriate [Read More...]
May 11, 2017
Indonesia convicts Christian governor of blasphemy
A court in Indonesia has found the governor of Jakarta, a Christian, guilty of blasphemy and sentenced him to two years in prison. His crime? He said in an election campaign that his opponents were deceiving people by saying that the Q’uran teaches that Muslims should not be led by non-Muslims. This apparent questioning of the [Read More...]
Donald Trump, diplomat
The liberal Moon Jae-In was elected president of South Korea on a platform of improving relations with North Korea. This at a time when President Trump wants to get tougher with North Korea. Moon’s party defeated the conservative, pro-American incumbents. President Trump reportedly played a role in bringing down our ally’s government and replacing it [Read More...]
Abortionist on “euthanizing” the baby
An abortion clinic in Albuquerque will abort a baby at any stage through all nine months of a woman’s pregnancy. An undercover call recorded one of the abortionists offering to abort a child at 30 weeks–7 and a half months, old enough to survive outside the womb. And the procedure would be to first “euthanize” [Read More...]
May 10, 2017
The immigrant converts in Finland
I have been blogging quite a bit about the Muslim immigrants in Europe who are converting to Christianity. In Finland, I saw it firsthand.
We mustn’t call breastfeeding “natural”
An article in the medical journal Pediatrics says that it is “unethical” to describe breastfeeding as “natural.” “Coupling nature with motherhood,” says the study, “can inadvertently support biologically deterministic arguments about the roles of men and women in the family (for example, that women should be the primary caretaker.” We shouldn’t couple nature with motherhood? [Read More...]
Trump fires FBI Director Comey
President Trump fired James B. Comey, the director of the FBI. The reason given was his off-again, on-again investigation of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, which Democrats blame, in part, for their presidential defeat. But why would Trump make an issue of that, long after his election? Democrats are claiming that the real reason is Comey’s [Read More...]
May 9, 2017
Religious liberty in the military
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod may yet again be headed to the Supreme Court, at least to the extent of having filed an amicus brief in the case of a female Marine corporal who was given a bad-conduct discharge for refusing to take down a Bible verse in her workplace. (“No weapon that is [Read More...]
