According to a 2000 study by Kinnear, Kernes, and Dautheribes, the seven most-practiced religions of the world, the United Nations, and the American Atheists identified a “short list of universal moral values.” These are (1) the commitment to something greater than oneself, which may include the recognition of and commitment to a Supreme being and …
Who Confers Personhood? The Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice Positions
What is a person? What would love say? In 1973, the state of Texas argued that an unborn child is a person who is given the right to life under the 14th Amendment. In the Roe v. Wade decision, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun determined that an unborn child is not a person and is …
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Why I Wear a Cross in a Secular Society: Against Quebec’s Bill 21
Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly unfashionable to be religious and devout. This cancerous idea reared its ugly head in Germany in the 18th century and has since crept into all parts of the western world. Hollywood actors mock the religious routinely and we've become the butt of many comedians' jokes. If …
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Why Biden’s $6 Trillion Spending Spree Should Be Stopped
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) New Deal created jobs during the Great Depression to help millions in the United States put food on their tables. In times of crisis, we often look to our leaders for help. Sadly, some capitalize on our crisis mindsets to push through legislation that would never have been accepted in …
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Jesus Already Drop-Kicked Marxist, Atheist Agendas
In the age of the “enlightenment” of the 17th - 19th centuries, deep atheistic thinkers crawled into the corners of people’s minds with their materialist agendas, claiming physical science had an explanation for all we know in this world. The “rational” supplanted the “traditional” and the “material supplanted the supernatural.” People in the West began …
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#Prolife Alert: How MLK’s Dream Applies to the Unborn
Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream that the United States would “make real the promises of democracy.” In 1963, he stood up against oppression, racism, and the unequal treatment of black people iwhen he shared his great dreams with his many followers. The following year, the U.S. government passed Title VII of the Civil …
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#Prolife Alert: U.S. Federal and States Laws Elevate Animals and Dehumanize Humans
The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (passed in 1940) prohibits the “take, possession, sale, purchase, barter, offer to sell, purchase or barter, transport, export or import, of any bald or golden eagle, alive or dead, including any part, nest, or egg, unless allowed by permit(16 U.S.C. 668(a); 50 CFR 22). ‘Take’ includes pursue, shoot, …
Answering 8 Pro-Choice Abortion Arguments
When I was in my twenties, I had a friend ask me to take her to an abortion clinic. After driving her there and waiting in my car for her to return, I watched her amble from the clinic with sadness in her eyes. I wondered whether she would ever regret what she did. She …
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Seven Signs of Secular Creep
When we identify the following signs in societies, we have evidence that secular values have crept into our Christian moral foundations. 1. Devalue humans by promoting women’s choice to electively abort their innocent unborn children. Only 1 percent of abortions are due to rape or incest, so let's focus on the other 99 percent. This …
Social Justice Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: A Christian Response
One of my favorite graduate assistants, from a handful of years ago, grew up in Sweden, where she was raised in a Christian home by very loving parents. I met her parents upon her first graduation where they gave me a book entitled “Jerusalem” by Selma Lagerlöf, which presented a fictional account of a humble …
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