Preserving American Values
Our nation stands under attack … not from without but from within. American values, our politics, and our culture have been corrupted.
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Category: Religion
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I was reading a book the other day that happened to quote two verses from the Bible that just stopped me in my tracks, realizing what a failure not only we are as humans but what a failure religion has been in leading its flock. The verses were: “For what shall it profit a man…
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The Born-Again Christian movement is a major component of evangelical Christianity. One website describes being born again as “becoming children of God through trust in the name of Jesus Christ.” It is a spiritual renewal. Often, born-again individuals talk about having a personal relationship with Jesus. In the 1990s, many adopted the slogan “What would…
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This is not going to be one of those regularly heard messages about how Christmas has become so commercialized that the true meaning of Christmas, celebrating the birth of Christ, is almost an afterthought. You know the saying, “Every day should be like Christmas?” While that is taken by some to mean that we should…
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Many people would look at the phrase “understanding rage” as an oxymoron. To them rage is irrational. It’s craziness. And because it’s not a rational state, it cannot be understood. It’s true that there is no reasoning with rage. The rational forces of democracy are not only helpless to hold it in check, the…
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There have been many pronouncements that God is dead. The most famous perhaps is that of Friedrich Nietzsche. But his statement is widely misunderstood. If you look beyond the quoted words, Nietzsche was saying that we have killed God. That we have taken away everything that was magical in God’s creation and are left with…
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“What,” the reader may well ask, “is a post on this topic doing in this blog?” Because many of the problems that the world experiences, both today and over the millennia, are a direct result of religious teaching, or the cynical use of religious teaching. Why does religion continue to hold such sway when in…
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As Jews around the world observe Yom Kippur, at levels of ritual observance ranging from the Haridim at the Wailing Wall to a reform temple in the U.S. Midwest to those who do not go to synagogue but in some way observe the Day of Atonement, it is important for each individual, for Israel, and…
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A friend of mine said once that whenever anyone walked through the doors of our Buddhist temple, it was because they were suffering and they were seeking a path to end their suffering. That is probably a statement that can be made of all religions. n the past, when true faith in God was high, most…
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In my post, “Creating a Safer World for Our Children,” 4/5/15, I noted that “it is conceivable that an organization of the major religions united to end the us v them mentality could be formed … an outgrowth, for example, of the Global Freedom Network … which would make a real difference.” And so I sent the following open…
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Rick Warren wrote an amazingly successful spiritual book, The Purpose Driven Life. According to amazon.com, it has sold more hardback copies than any other non-fiction book in history and it is the most-translated book in the world, except for the Bible. Recently a new edition was published. If so many tens of millions of people have read his…
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