In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief. By Lee Billings Marcelo Gleiser, a 60-year-old Brazil-born theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College and prolific science popularizer, has won this year’s Templeton Prize. Valued at just under $1.5 million, the […]
Pope Francis’ Socialist Agenda
The pope of Rome has far more radical ideas than most people realize. Like Bernie Sanders, the pope is a socialist. He has had many unkind words about capitalism (“the dung of the devil”), but no corresponding criticism of socialism. by William Kirkpatrick Watching Bernie Sanders’s speech announcing his candidacy for president, it struck me […]
Progressives Do Want Religion: Compulsory Progressivism
by Steve Deace So much for progressivism’s obsession with “thou shall not judge.” Good. Because it was always a scam anyway. The plan was always to judge, and to judge harshly. But just as the devil needed to go undercover in the Garden of Eden with his own “did God really say?” deception, progressives needed […]
Why Marxism Shifted from Economics to Culture
From the Mises Institute In his recent Reason magazine article, senior editor Brian Doherty assures readers that “cultural Marxism” is nothing but mere “paranoia” conjured up by the “conspiratorial right” to provide cover for their hate of “multiculturalism and gay rights and radical feminism.” He openly mocks the idea that the unmistakable uptick in identity politics […]
Remembering Karl Marx: Prophet of Violence and Terror
With the possible exception of Mohammed, no one is more deserving of utter contempt, ridicule, and abominable loathing by civilized man than Karl Marx, who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions, and the suffering of many more. His followers butchered unimaginable millions of their own people following his precepts. May God have […]
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
by George Reisman, Mises Institute My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship. The […]
Bavaria Orders Christian Crosses to be Displayed on Govt Buildings
The Cross > Islam. Germany’s Bavaria has ordered Christian crosses to be placed over the entrances of government buildings to reflect its “cultural identity” as the state continues its feud with Berlin over multiculturalism and open-door policies. The crosses should not be seen as “the sign of a religion,” according to Bavarian Minister President Markus […]
Moscow Church Leader Criticizes Protestant Theologians
Orthodox-Protestant Theological Dialogue is ‘D-E-D’ Dead The dialogue with protestant churches has hit a dead end, but the Russian Orthodox Church hopes for cooperation with them in the humanitarian sphere, the patriarch of Moscow and all-Rus declared in an interview with Bulgarian news media. Patriarch of Moscow and all-Rus Kirill will visit Bulgaria on 2 […]
Persistently Unconscious Patient Awakened
by Wesley J. Smith Ever since Terri Schiavo, writing about the wrongness of removing feeding tubes from patients diagnosed with persistent unconsciousness (PVS) — we should never call them “vegetables,” a term as denigrating and dehumanizing as a racial epithet — is like spitting in the wind. But, what the heck. Patients in this condition are […]
Holy Synod of Bishops issues statement on recent tragic events in Charlottesville, VA
On 10 August 1872 the Synod of Constantinople issued an official condemnation of ecclesiastical racism, or “ethno-phyletism”, as well as its theological argumentation: We renounce, censure and condemn phyletism, that is racial discrimination, ethnic feuds, hatreds and dissensions within the Church of Christ, as contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons […]