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Benjamin Wiker's first guests--St. Augustine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau!
Benjamin Wiker's first guests--St. Augustine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau!
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The newly ensconced CEO of Mozilla, tech wizard Brendan Eich, the man who invented JavaScript, has just been asked to step down as the result of the gay rights outcry at his making a $1000 donation way back in 2008 to support the efforts of California's Proposition 8. The lesson from the LGBTQUIA community: you can't support heterosexual marriage and expect to keep your job.
Read the full article at tothesource 
Mindless Evolution?
As we noted in a previous article, the first episode of deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos was aimed directly at Christianity. The message: faith is an obstacle to science, and a malicious one at that. The second episode is designed to rub more salt in the wound by touting mindless evolution as the real cause of all the bountiful complexity of life on earth, and not a creator God. The problem with deGrasse Tyson's approach—and it is an old, well-worn one, going back to Darwin himself—is that evolution works too well for it to be a mindless process explainable in terms of random variation, natural selection, and mutation (and the various addenda brought in to shore up what these two can't deliver). Note again what I'm saying: the problem with mindless evolution is that evolution works too well for it to have been mindless. Read the full article at tothesource 
The first words one hears on the debut episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's reboot of Cosmos are those of its creator, Carl Sagan, "The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be." Sagan's trademark phrase was meant to make clear the fundamental atheistic assumption defining his entire worldview: science explains why there is no God. Science makes God irrelevant, an idea of our ignorant ancestors that is long overdue for sweeping into history's dustbin. Sagan's Cosmos was the brush.
Will the new Cosmos be different? That's a good question. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT TOTHESOURCE 
If a Christian baker refuses to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding, he’s going to jail. But what if a Muslim barber refuses to give a haircut to a lesbian?
Read the entire article at tothesource 
When I reported on the American Atheists’ monument set up alongside the Ten Commandments outside Starke, Florida’s courthouse, I made a prediction: very soon, Satanists will demand to put up their monuments as well.
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT TOTHESOURCE 
Famed atheist Richard Dawkins has just released the first volume of his autobiography, An Appetite for Wonder: the Making of a Scientist. Reading it, one wonders how much Richard Dawkins knows about himself.
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT TOTHESOURCE Green Hope: the Urban Garden Revolution
In the rich world of Christian symbolism, green is the color of the theological virtue of hope. (FYI, faith is white and charity, red). The reason is obvious because it is so obviously rooted in nature, in creation. Green is the color we inevitably associate with spring, with the rebirth of life after the long death of winter, with the native abundance of the earth.
As far as I know there are no official colors for the corresponding vices to these three theological virtues. But if I had to pick a color for despair—the vice opposed to the virtue of hope—it would be the color of concrete. Ron Finley saw hope in a thin grass strip in front of his house in South Central LA. There he planted what he would call a "guerrilla garden." Read the entire article at tothesource Ariel Castro--Why There is Purgatory--and Hell
Ariel Castro was to have spent a millennium in prison. That was his punishment after being found guilty of 937 criminal counts, including kidnapping, rape and murder. To be more exact, he was to serve life plus 1,000 years.
But after just about a month, he tied a bed sheet around his neck and cut short his life and his punishment. That’s it. No more Ariel Castro. No more temporal punishment. After causing a living hell for the three girls he kidnapped and kept as sexual slaves for over a decade — girls who were continually raped, chained to a wall, locked in a dark room, fed one meal a day, regularly beaten, threatened with death, day after day, month after month, year after year — Castro made the ultimate escape. Castro had pleaded guilty to the 937 criminal accounts so that he could avoid the death penalty, and then he imposed that penalty on himself. We need to think about this. Deeply. First, we need to think deeply about what it was like for the three young women, Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. In 2002, Michelle was 21 when Castro abducted her. A third of her life would be spent in darkness, rape, violence, horror, stench, despair. Amanda and Georgina were thrust into Castro’s hell in 2003 and 2004, respectively. Amanda was 16, and Georgina only 14 years old. The morbid math: Amanda would spend a little over 40% of her life in hell, and Georgina would spend about 44%. Time feels differently when you are having fun, going out with your friends, watching a good movie and laughing over a meal with your family. It goes fast. But time crawls when you’re sitting in a dark room smelling your own urine and feces, chained to a wall, waiting for the horror of footsteps coming toward the door, being raped, giving birth in a plastic wading pool. Minutes are hours; hours are days; days are years; years are eternities. How long did the three young women spend in Castro’s hell? You tell me. Read the rest at National Catholic Register. |
Wiker's Recent Books
"Christianity is being deliberately pushed out of our culture—so that secular liberalism can be established in its place.
One religion is being actively disestablished, while another is being (in fact, largely has been) established in its place." Just Released!
Politicizing the Bible took us three years to write, and it is meant to be a revolutionary book. In it, Scott Hahn and I trace out the real, deepest roots of modern historical biblical criticism, and show why it has ended in the secularization of the biblical text.
MORE GREAT BOOKS BY BENJAMIN WIKER
This is one of my most popular books--perhaps a strange thing, since it focuses on the most destructive books, the books that have done so much damage to the modern world. But not really so very strange. Sometimes the best way to understand the truth, is to study the greatest errors. And here you have them.
The Good News!
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