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C.S. Lewis: More than 40 years after his death, the former medieval literature professor has become the Elvis Presley of Christian publishing...

...there is such a thing as Jewish secularism, and one key element in it is the abandonment of halakhah (traditional Jewish law) and rabbinic authority. This is a point of radical division between Maimonides, who saw himself as renovating and ultimately strengthening Jewish law, and Spinoza, who deliberately aimed to dissolve it.

Sorry, Atheism Can't Replace Religion!

Equality is not justice, it is actually a mandate for injustice.

From Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish:

God as government or government as god, is what takes place when you surgically slice away the "god" part of religion. Once you postulate that all religions are essentially the same, that they all worship the same god, and that the only differences between them are matters of ritual, then you have eliminated the differences and the identities of all religions. If there are no unique revelations, no special scriptures and no vital testaments... then each religion's identity becomes a formality, is reduced to a series of dubious traditions that don't really matter in the bigger picture. If all religions are equally valid, then they are also equally invalid. Just as, if all opinions are valid, then they are also equally invalid.

In the absence of theology, the only religion that remains is the universal one of "being nice to other people". Take god out of the equation, and all you have left is social justice. Liberalization leads to secularization with the end result that religion becomes one gigantic "being nice to other people" project. And what is the best possible vehicle for social justice projects, but government. And so governments became gods. Their mission to build kingdoms of heaven on earth, utopias in which no one went hungry and which everyone was equally prosperous.

God as Government

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Does anyone really care about kids anymore?

Sexualization of children and teens may seem hip or cool as promoted by the secular-progressive agenda (which is counter to traditional values), but the outcome is not so nice:

After 14 years in decline, the birthrate for American teens ages 15 to 19 jumped by 3% between 2005 and 2006. Out-of-wedlock births for all women rose 7% in 2006, and about 40% of all unmarried women giving birth are in cohabiting relationships. -- National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (WashingtonPost.com, December 6, 2007; Reuters, December 5, 2007, via Plugged In online)

Healthy, happy children are the result of good homes with caring Mothers and Fathers. Nothing good ever comes from promoting lifestyles that produce disease and dysfunction.

Having lived through the '60's, I can vouch that "free love" made women the losers and was a triumph for guys that wanted no responsibility for their own actions thus leaving a whole generation with the results of unwanted pregnancies and sexual diseases.

And as for protecting children once they are here, the most liberal states in America fight the hardest against laws protecting children from vicious child predators.

British doctors want to kill sick babies

This is where a multi-cultural diverse secular society goes. If God is not in the equation, then life isn't sacred and you can do whatever you want.

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