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Negative World: Why Christians Are Retreating from American Cities

July 23, 2024 by Peter Clarke in Opinion

Politically-engaged Christians in America aren’t thrilled with the way things have been going. They finally seem to grasp how badly they’re losing in the culture. And they’re getting desperate. This desperation was the focus of a recent article in The New York Times, “Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across America.” According to […]

Richard Dawkins Says He’s a Cultural Christian: This Isn’t News

May 9, 2024 by Roling Kaloti in Opinion

On March 31 this year, Richard Dawkins appeared in an interview with Rachel Johnson on LBC, where he made headlines after identifying himself as a cultural Christian. After stating he was “slightly horrified” to hear about when Oxford Street in London began promoting Ramadan instead of Easter, he explained his belief that England is a […]

Jesus Was a Psy-Op: A Book Review of ‘Creating Christ’

March 26, 2024 by Jeremy Greenberg in Opinion

The origins of Christianity are shrouded in time, hidden and obscured. However, through decades of painstaking research and careful study, researchers are able to uncover illuminating details. The 2018 book Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity, by James S. Valliant and Warren Fahy, argues that Christianity was not a natural, organic development from the […]

A Libertarian Jesus?

July 5, 2023 by Ian Golan in Opinion

By Ian Golan Though prevalent amongst libertarians, the phrase “taxation is theft” is slightly imprecise, as governmental confiscation of our assets is best described by the word extortion. The threat of the state, sending their mercenaries to make one pay the “price for civilization”, even if they may kill one in the process, is ever […]