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Domestic Disturbances
The Rising Polyamorous Culture Is Out to Get Your Children. 1/5/2010 |
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The Left’s End Times
The End-Times Left is more than the sum of global warming enthusiasts, boosters, and acolytes. Broadening the secular left’s universe are those who are anti-life. 12/31/2009 |
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A Demand for Freedom
We must demand, as well, genuine freedom for the churches: the freedom to proclaim the gospel, the freedom to persuade conversions, the freedom to make the case for Christianity by participating in public discourse, the freedom to operate charitable and educational organizations, and the freedom to decry sin wherever it is found. 12/2009 |
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In Pursuit of Death
The hardcore leftists who fled the collapse of communism have found a home in radical environmental movements. 12/22/09 |
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Democrats Kill Successful DC Voucher Progam
The Democrats in Congress have essentially killed Washington D.C.’s Opportunity Scholarship Program effectively throwing nearly 2,000 disadvantaged students back into one of the worst school systems in the country. 12/21/09 |
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Watermelon Marxists
As a tool for watermelon Marxists — green on the outside and red on the inside — climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of communist wealth redistribution. 12/8/09 |
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Kids to Meet Marx in School – Care of Hollywood and The History Channel
Zinn has spent a lifetime teaching college students about the evils of capitalism, the promise of Marxism, and his version of American history – a history that has, in his view, been kept from students. 12/7/09 |
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Obama’s Buggery Czar, Kevin Jennings
The media is trying to keep this story in the closet, but it’s important not to wink at all the serious problems surrounding President Obama’s controversial “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings. 12/8/09 |
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Left Destroys More than It Creates
Just as there is no left-wing Boy Scouts, there is no Salvation Army built and manned by people with left-wing values. 12/1/09 |
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America Founded on the Principles of Honoring God
Critics often miss the point by trying to validate or invalidate the American Founding Fathers as Christian. According to Orthodox Tradition this doesn’t matter. 11/28/09 |
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Global Warmists Caught Red-Handed
The fraud perpetrated by the leading AGW "scientists" exposed. 11/25/09 |
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The Mayflower’s Pilgrim Capitalists
As Philbrick describes it, after three years in America the Pilgrims “stumbled on the power of capitalism” and in the process ensured the colony’s survival. 11/25/09 |
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Fr. Symeon: Danger of Christian Persecution in America
We are already crossing the lines of ‘political correctness’ to speak the truth and political correctness is constantly being incorporated into law. It is an all out assault on truth in this country and Truth is a person, Jesus Christ. 11/24/2009 |
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Manhattan Declaration – Religion Takes a Stand
Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. 11/23/2009 |
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The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
On November 22, 2009 group of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant leaders unveiled a document called “The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience” that affirms the traditional Christian teaching concerning abortion, homosexual marriage, and religious freedom 11/22/2009 |
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Thankful for Obama
All signs are pointing toward a monumental collapse in public support for the president and his party. 11/25/2009 |
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Without Life, No Rights
What abortion advocates ignore is that unless we first preserve the right to life, all other rights are meaningless. Rights mean nothing to a corpse. 11/13/2009 |
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Climategate: Alarmism Is Underpinned by Fraud
Files from the UK Climatic Research Unit were hacked. They show that data was massaged, numbers were fudged, diagrams were biased, there was destruction of data after freedom of information requests, and there was refusal to submit taxpayer-funded data for independent examination. 11/25/09 |
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Why Obamanomics Will Not Improve the Economy
The economic programs and policies currently in place are truly astounding. I don’t think I have ever seen a more harmful economic environment for the country. 11/23/09 |
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In the Shadow of the Grand Inquisitor
Christians will be persecuted in this world. They will take away our crosses, smash our icons and tell us that we are wasting our time. 11/17/2009 |
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The Gulag Lives On – But Not in Our Culture
So why so many excellent films set in or around the Holocaust and so few films using any gulag, be it Soviet, Chinese, North Korean, Cuban, etc.? 11/17/09 |
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The Silver Lining of the Left in Power
There may be a major silver lining for conservatives and for America’s future thanks to the foreign and domestic policies of President Obama and the Democrat-controlled House and Senate: For the first time in their lives, millions of Americans are coming to understand the left. 11/17/09 |
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But What About the Poor?
The left avers that many Americans are poverty-stricken, that we need to do more to alleviate their plight, and that the primary role of government is to help them. Let us examine these claims. 11/2/09 |
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Charity and Sacrifice in a Free Society
The Founding Founders established a Republic under a written Constitution with the clear intent of protecting individual freedom; however, the role of our government has been grossly perverted over the last century to the point where politicians now violate individual rights routinely and without batting an eye. 10/31/09 |
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Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
Society’s belief in the unique moral value and importance of human life is under unprecedented assault. 10/30/09 |
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Articles from Previous Weeks |
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Dennis Prager Mentions OrthodoxNet Blog on Air
On Monday, October 19, 2009, during the second hour of his nationally syndicated radio show, noted conservative Dennis Prager, mentioned the OrthodoxNet Blog post on Anita Dunn’s praise of demonic communist dictator Mao Tse-Tung as one of her "favorite political philosophers." 10/27/09 |
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Shedding Some Light on the Judgement
A wise man keeps his attention on the day his death before the days of his life. Before you make plans for tomorrow, remember the hour of your death! 10/27/2009 |
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Democrats’ Policies Based on Dogma, Hopes, Dreams, not Reality
How is one to rationally explain the Democrats’ belief that the government taking over another one-sixth of the American economy is a good thing? The answer is religion. 10/27/09 |
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Russian Research Forecasts Global Cooling
In a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, "Sun Heats Earth!" 10/27/09 |
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Climate Chains, Environmental Alarmists Threaten Our Freedoms
An epic debate is underway in our country. Proposed climate legislation would have a far-reaching impact on our standard of living and give government a portal into every aspect of our lives. 10/26/09 |
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The End Game of the Left
By enflaming hatred of the wealthy (and by extension, capitalism), the left can brandish social justice as a weapon to seize complete control of government and essentially enslave the populace. 10/25/09 |
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Welcome to the World of Newspeak
In George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” Newspeak refers to language designed by a totalitarian regime to control thought and make subversive speech impossible. 10/23/09 |
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Multiculturalism and Marxism
No successful society shows a spontaneous tendency towards multiculturalism or multiracialism. 10/23/09 |
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Green Patriarch Bartholomew Embraces Leftist Environmental Agenda
Far-left environmental activism is blind to the economic and social dimensions of environment care. Alarmism, in other words, should have no place in our deliberations about the environment because it makes no account of the economic and social ramifications that environmental policy will have on real people. 10/22/09 |
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Welcome to the School of Social Engineering
With each passing day, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the change the American people voted for is not the “change” President Obama envisions for our country. 10/19/09 |
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Queering Our Schools
Advocating the indoctrination of kindergarten children based on anecdotal evidence or flawed science isn’t Mr. Jennings’ worst offense. 10/16/09 |
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Four Characteristics of Good Orthodox Preaching
Orthodox preaching needs to be good preaching. To be good, Orthodox preaching must not only deliver good content, but it must strive to make the hearers good. Therefore, good Orthodox preaching is the Gospel (good news) proclaimed and lived. 10/2009 |
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Idol Worship, Counterfeit Gods
Anything and everything we turn to in order to satisfy our deepest needs and longings can become idols. Even good things such as family, love, and morality become idols when they take the place of God. As Keller writes, "If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it is an idol." 10/27/2009 |
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That The Bishops Be Blameless
One who was not given the gift of teaching and preaching is not worthy to be thought of for the position of priest or bishop. 10/17/09 |
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Anita Dunn Favorite Philosopher Mao Tse-Tung
Anita Dunn, the White House Communications Director, admitted that one of favorite political Philosophers, one that she “turns to the most”, is Mao Tse-Tung, the demonic communist dictator responsible for the starvation, torture, and murder of 70 million Chinese. 10/16/09 |
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Without God We are Nothing
It is more reasonable to believe in God than to reject the hypothesis of God by appealing to chance; more reasonable also
to believe than to escape into agnosticism. 10/4/09 |
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Nation of Men, Not of Laws
It is a dark day when the rule of law is disregarded because it conflicts with the left’s amoral world
view. 10/1/2009 |
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Should Christians Speak Against Clergy Sexual Misconduct?
Should Christians unconditionally obey our church leaders? Should Christians remain silent when church leaders lead us astray?
Should Christians judge others? Should a sex offender remain a bishop? 9/24/09 |
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The Appearance of Design
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. 9/23/09 |
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Education Normal
A suitable education must do more, therefore, than simply teach facts, even moral facts. Education must seek to cultivate
the moral imagination of the child, for reducing moral education to a list of rules is bound to fail. 9/2009 |
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Signature in the Cell
In his book, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer methodically challenges the central doctrine of today’s scientific
establishment that life arose from purely undirected materialistic and naturalistic forces in the absence of intelligence. 9/23/09 |
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Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
In Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark Levin identifies and analyzes two divergent, mutually exclusive
philosophies of governance. 9/2009 |
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Intelligent Design - Unlocking The Mysteries Of Life
A thoughtful and well presented argument for a turn away from the dry/rationalist argument that the miracle of life is a
"nothing but" - scientifically explained foregone conclusion. Their is "intelligence" behind the design. 9/8/09 |
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Getting to Know An Unknown God
Who is this unknown God that has touched all of world history? Who is this being for whom so much ink has been spilled
trying to understand? 10/2009 |
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God and Science Do Mix
If God kept arbitrarily interfering in nature as Haldane and Krauss imagine, we could never distinguish His message, the signal,
from the noise of nature’s irregularities. To reveal Himself to humans—to communicate—He must break into nature sometimes, but He must do
so rarely. 8/21/09 |
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Quotes |
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"God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would
not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself
is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There
is no other."
That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such
thing."
-- C.S. Lewis -
Mere Christianity
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