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  • Atheism Radio

    By Selwyn Duke This just in: Airhead America, that leftist talk radio outfit, is launching a program devoted to atheism.

  • Evil

    By Selwyn Duke Man has long asked how a loving God could allow evil to exist in the world.  It’s an age-old philosophical question that can cause those who want faith to doubt and those who want to doubt to mock faith.

  • The Anti-Islamist Manifesto

    By Selwyn Duke Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together facing a new totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and…

  • Does Violence Have to Be Taught?

    By Selwyn Duke It seems that the more we come to believe that “Violence has to be taught,” the more our children learn to be violent. It’s a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off with a five-finger attention-getter. “Don’t you dare spank…

  • What if Homosexuality is Biological?

    By Selwyn Duke The Rev. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., recently penned an article that has both fellow evangelicals and homosexual activists feeling none too gay. Mohler raised the ire of the former group by stating that science may very well prove there is a biological…

  • Are You Really a Liberal?

    By Selwyn Duke Writers such as myself devote a lot of ink to the species known as liberals. And when you carry your banners openly on the field of battle, you define yourself and relinquish any pretense at that most illusory quality, impartiality. This places you in the crosshairs, although you can take solace in…

  • Speaking out of the left sides of our mouthsHow the language engineers reshape civilization by reshaping the language

    By Selwyn Duke It has been said that the side that defines the vocabulary of a debate wins the debate.  This idea was expressed in George Orwell’s book 1984 with "Newspeak," which was the name given to the language paradigm that the oppressive government portrayed in the book sought to foist upon its people.  The…

  • The Nature of Right and Wrong

    By Selwyn Duke  Do not judge lest you be judged . . . .  It's a phrase so frequently misused nowadays.  It's often uttered in an attempt to immunize oneself against value judgments about one's behavior.  After all, few people brook criticism very well, and many of us fear the re-emergence of a dominant moral…

  • The Nature of Right and Wrong

    By Selwyn Duke  Do not judge lest you be judged . . . .  It’s a phrase that’s so frequently misused nowadays. It’s often uttered in an attempt to immunize oneself against value judgments about one’s behavior. After all, few people brook criticism very well, and many of us fear the re-emergence of a dominant…