Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 73

Is Atheism Wishful Thinking?

One of the jabs atheists make towards Christians is that our religion is all wishful thinking. They like to blame us for believing in a sugar daddy in the sky–a kind of invisible Santa Claus who is going to make everything okay one day. When we die we’ll all go to a happy family reunion [Read More...]

Planned Parenthood’s Bill Cosby Moment

John Zmirak analyzes the earthquake that the Center for Medical Progress videos have unleashed here by comparing how Bill Cosby handled the scandalous truth. This was the playbook that Bill Cosby and his damage control team were using, and it almost worked. Had there been a little less evidence and had his accusers been less [Read More...]

Church Militant or Church Hesitant?

St Ignatius Loyola’s memorial today reminds us of the role of the Christian soldier. Wounded in battle, Ignatius began to read the Sacred Scriptures and was truly and completely converted. He went on to found the Society of Jesus as a kind of military style religious missionary order. The idea of the church militant is [Read More...]

Persecution of Christians Accelerates Worldwide

This article highlights the increasing persecution of Christians worldwide. Christians may be the most persecuted group in the world, and their persecution is on the rise. As Islamic extremism takes hold and repressive governments step up their campaigns against Christianity, the Pope has been moved to warn of “a form of genocide”, and for campaigners [Read More...]

America the Murderous: A Solemn Prophetic Warning

If you haven’t seen the latest video from Center for Medical Progress yet you ought to. The editing and release of the videos…drip, drip, drip has been a brilliant piece of investigative journalism. They did their research, they gathered their footage, they edited it down to show exactly what was going on. Furthermore, it is [Read More...]

Planned Parenthood Discusses How to Bend the Law in Fourth Video

Center for Medical Progress has released their fourth video today, and it follows the gruesome reality shown in the third video on Tuesday. In today’s film the Planned Parenthood doctor discusses how they deal with “compensation” to make sure the public relations look good. She assures the “buyers” that the Planned Parenthood lawyers are working [Read More...]

Should We Call the Pope “King Francis”?

My article for Aleteia this week explores the idea of a monarchical papacy. Is the pope a monarch? In what way does he stand for the kingdom of God? Should he wear a crown? Seated like a monarch on his throne called the sedia gestatoria the pope would be carried by a squad of men [Read More...]

The Devil in Detroit

My latest article for CRUX explores the image of Baphomet which was unveiled in Detroit and asks whether it has a rightful place outside the Capitol in Arkansas The hideous statue of Baphomet is not, therefore, a harmless exercise in testing the limits of American tolerance. Satan is not just a literary conceit, a philosophical [Read More...]

Super Rich Foundations Target Religious Freedom

In the wake of the SCOTUS decision to make same sex marriage legal, this article outlines the concerted plans super rich grant making foundations have for targetting religious freedom. A leader in LGBT grant-making has told business leaders that he wants to shut down the political fight for religious freedom exemptions in the U.S. within [Read More...]

Twelve Causes of Gender Confusion

First off, l should be clear: I’m not an expert. I’m not a psychologist. I’m not well read in the topic of gender issues. I have to admit that the whole issue causes me more bewilderment than anything else. Gender confusion confuses me. Picking my way through the maze of these current issues and avoiding [Read More...]