I normally don’t get into online debates in comment sections, on Facebook, or even via email. I have too much work to get done, especially in regard to my “County Rights” project. In fact, I give this as general advice for most people online, in forums, on Facebook, etc.; these are a great place to [...]
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Many Americans are unaware of the Christian history of the Mount Rushmore carvings. At its inception, the massive monument was to include an explicitly Christian inscription to ensure future generations would understand the reason for its existence. Watch this episode of Vantage Point to find out more of this fascinating history!
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When I was a student at Reformed Theological Seminary (1974-1979), I was taught that certain cultural applications flowed from a consistent application of Calvinism. Calvinism is synonymous with a comprehensive biblical world-and-life view. It’s not just about TULIP (Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints). Simply put, we were told [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 2: Welfare 2.2 How Freedom was Lost in America We have seen how matters of human welfare in a free society should only stem from the legal institution of the family and private insurance arrangements. And we have seen, now, how that’s the way it used to [...]
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After the defeat of Hitler’s Third Reich, war crime tribunals were set up in Nuremberg, Germany. The purpose, of course, was to judge those who had participated in the grossest of atrocities, the planned extermination of the Jewish race. John Warwick Montgomery explains the problem the tribunal faced: When the Charter of the Tribunal, which [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 2: Welfare 2.1 Welfare in a Free America Having grown up in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, most of us have a narrow mental window through which to view the subject of human welfare and insurance. It is almost impossible for us to imagine a world in [...]
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“The Forgotten Highway. No one travels on it. It’s not on the map. And no one knows where it goes.” “Have you been there?” “We have; but we couldn’t explore it.” “A highway from nowhere to nowhere,” uttered Pashka after recovering from his surprise. “Perfect,” said Anka, and her eyes gleamed like little dark embrasures. [...]
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Atheist Michael Newdow has been pestering the courts to rule that the phrase “under God,” found in the Pledge of Allegiance, and “In God We Trust,” imprinted and stamped on our currency, are unconstitutional. In 2010, even the usually liberal San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Newdow’s legal challenges that the references [...]
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More from my “county rights” project: part two of three on education. After this, we’ll talk about how to take back the freedom. Restoring America: One County at a Time Chapter 1: Education 1.2 How Freedom Was Lost In the last article, I discussed how free, purely private education was the American way, and it [...]
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Reviving the Rotten Corpse of Natural Law
Filed under American History, Apologetics, Articles, Christian Worldview, Ethics, Featured, Law by Gary DeMar on July 17, 2011 at 9:25 pm {8 comments}When Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appealed to Natural Law theory in some of his legal opinions and writings, there were those on the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings in September 1991 who took exception. The most vocal critic was former Senator and now Vice President Joseph Biden. As long as Thomas defined [...]