It’s not new news – Sumerian, Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Moorish, Anglo-Saxon, and many other societies, all fell shortly after they abandoned sexual chastity. Sexual permissiveness would cause societies to decline unless and until their sexual mores became more rigid. Published in a highly underrated 1934 book called “Sex and Culture,” the anthropologist J.D. Unwin found […]
California Progressives Launch Another Attack on Free Speech
by David French There is no compromise with people who seek and require your silence. On Sunday evening, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait published a piece asking why more disgruntled Republicans don’t punish their party by switching sides. Chait notes that the “strongest defense against the election of an extreme or unfit leader is for […]
Socialized Medicine Revealed: Canadian Disabled Man Denied Care but Offered Euthanasia
by Wesley J. Smith Will euthanasia be about money? Does CNN hate Donald Trump? In 2008, two Oregon terminally ill patients on rationed Medicaid were denied coverage for life-extending chemotherapy, but received letters from administrators offering to pay for their assisted suicides. Now, a Canadian man with serious disabilities has been refused coverage for independent living services […]
5 Reasons Socialism Is Not Christian
by Julie Roys Please don’t read this if you prefer to remain in a state of delusion about your Christian faith, or about socialism itself. Jesus confronted the money-changers and challenged believers to give to the needy. But, would he support socialism? Increasingly, Americans think he would. In fact, a recent Barna poll found that […]
Court Forces Doctor to Euthanize Patient or Face Professional Sanction
Enough! Physicians, rise up and fight back. Take back your sacred profession before it is too late. You don’t get a pass on letting your profession become professional exterminators. by Wesley J. Smith A court in Ontario, Canada, has ruled that a patient’s desire to be euthanized trumps a doctor’s conscientious objection. Doctors there now face […]
New UN Document Pushes Planned Parenthood’s Abortion and Sex-Ed Agenda on 5-Year-Olds
From LifeSite News “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” Ephesians 5:11 A new United Nations document on sex education relies heavily on the abortion giant Planned Parenthood for materials to teach children. The New American, which reviewed the lengthy document, described it as a “a full-blown assault on […]
Orthodox Religion, Unorthodox Medicine: The Rise of Romania’s Christian Doctors
by Sorana Stanescu A new breed of Romanian doctors wants to place faith at the heart of their practice, alarming those who believe religion and medicine do not mix. Cardiologist Ciprian Fisca barely got any sleep on last night’s shift, and his next one starts early tomorrow morning. But right now, eight hours before he returns […]
Children Saved from Abortion Baptized
THIS is why we refuse to cave on things like Abortion, which is the sacrament of demons. The holy Sacrament of Baptism was recently celebrated in Vladivostok for several children whose lives had been saved from abortion, reports the site of the Vladivostok Diocese. The holy rite was celebrated by Fr. Vadim Rodin in the […]
Famous Anti-Abortion Russian Priest Shares His Secret Strategy
Fr. Dmitry Smirnov is a prominent and adored Moscow priest. He is the most vocal priest about family affairs in Russia, one who never beats around the bush. Though he is very well educated, he willingly and directly responds to all questions, practical and seemingly trite (such as ‘will I go to hell if I […]
Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity
In the modern West, we generally take for granted that human persons have an inherent dignity and worth that forms the basis for human rights. The very first clause of the preamble to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all […]