There’s a guiding logic here — and it isn’t to “own the libs,” in the sense of driving Trump’s opponents to fits of moralistic rage (even if, from the president-elect’s perspective, that’s an ancillary benefit). It’s to perpetuate the spirit of cynicism, which is the core...
Meanwhile the church’s interest involved mainly the purchasing of land (which still happens in Poland and I think in Lebanon) as they made up for the loss of territory encountered in “the wars of religion” in the rest of Europe and all the privileged they enjoyed before the protestant r...
but,” then you are going to have to tell me something about Kamala Harris that I do not already know. Maybe there is a persuasive case to be made. But I haven’t heard it.
8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews[bm] on behalf of God’s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed 9 and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise you among ...
principles.” In these principles, they sequenced people, products, and profits, and “it was decided that people should absolutely come first [and products second and profits third.]”[12]Putting profitsthirddid not hinder the turnaround, but is precisely the mindset that made the turnaround ...
century BC,direct democracy, sometimes called “pure democracy,” is considered the oldest non-authoritarian form of government. In a direct democracy, all laws and public policy decisions are made directly by a majority vote of the people, rather than by the votes of their elected ...
(17th-19thCentury), which opened the doors to critical thinking. Much of its growth and vibrancy must also be attributed to the Reformation (16th-17thCentury) and Christianity, which liberated the natural world from control of the church and empowered human reason, science, enterprise, and what...
In the short term, this made the Reformation possible by putting a Bible in the hands of anybody who wanted one. The Church lost its lock on truth, and the sovereign individual soon emerged as the key unit of Western society. In the longer term, publishing universalized literacy. Before ...
the daughter of England’s Queen Victoria. The Kaiser entered the city on horse back through two specially made ceremonial arches, one a gift of the Ottoman Empire. He came to dedicate the German Lutheran church building, the Church of the Redeemer, on Reformation Day, 1898. At the dedicatio...
(2) The opening sentence of this paragraph may give some Catholics reason to pause, because one possible interpretation could deny human cooperation in the act of justification. However, other Catholic theologians argue that the Lutheran admission in the subsequent sentence on being "made righteous"...