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To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.
Artists are often the barometers of society.
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.
The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.
Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, "Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get."
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.