Just last week NPR ran a news story covering one of the “dark secrets of Franco’s dictatorship” that scholars and activists has recently uncovered in Spain’s history:
It involved the stealing of thousands of children from leftist parents so they could be indoctrinated in fascism and archconservative Catholicism.
Full Story » One way to change worldview perceptions is to keep people ignorant. The public schools have done a great job in shifting worldview thinking from theism to humanism right under the noses of parents who extol the virtues of America’s government education system. Consider how textbooks handle the subject of religion in the founding of America. One elementary school social studies book has thirty pages of material "on the Pilgrims," Paul Vitz writes, "including the first Thanksgiving. But there is not one word (or image) that referred to religion as even a part of the Pilgrims’" life.
Full Story » Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller are atheists and evolutionists who also happen to be talented magicians. While taking on any number of liberal iconic beliefs, most recently environmental hysteria, they also have attacked the Bible, Creationism, and Intelligent Design, describing them as impossibilities.
Full Story » "He who does not believe in God will believe in anything." The unfortunate truth resonating in this wisdom finds yet another exponent in the Oxford-sanctioned senselessness of atheist Richard Dawkins. What is the atheist’s great burden of our generation? Humanism? No. Human rights? No. Actually, it is Gorillas’ Rights.
Full Story » There is an old saying, which fits the village atheist right down to the last shirt button: Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
Full Story » Nica Lalli is an atheist, but she doesn’t want to be lumped in with all atheists. Welcome to the club. Not all Christians want to be lumped in with all who call themselves Christians or with those who are religious in some way.
Full Story » Former fundamentalist preacher Dan Barker and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, believe America is becoming a theocracy. “[Religion is] the source of the greatest violence in the world,”
Full Story » After a three month hiatus, the TV show LOST returned last night for the first of sixteen new episodes in sixteen weeks. Fans of the show were treated to more background information on one of the newer characters that were introduced in the first half of the third season, Juliet.
Full Story » In recent weeks we have seen how the “New Atheists” are making postmodernism a thing of the academic past. But we also briefly discussed last week the “conversations” that are going on among a growing number of “postmodern” Christians who refer to themselves as the “Emerging Church.”
Full Story » Over the last several weeks, we have taken a cursory look at how the leading “new atheists” are doing their very best to demolish the underpinnings of postmodernism. By publicly demonizing religion, the “new atheists” are drawing a philosophical line in the sand on the beachhead of academic debate.
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