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  • Response to Reader Email: On Moral Relativism

    In response to my conversion piece, V wrote: Having authored a book [on the subject], I naturally paid close attention to your argument.

  • Selwyn Duke Responds to Critics of Conversion Article

    By Selwyn Duke My recent piece about how we should react to those who pray for our conversion evoked a greater response than I had supposed it would.  (I expect Howard Stern, rap stars and all other things scatological to attract attention, but not something frivolous like philosophy).  Most of the emails were positive; however,…

  • Conversion by the WordWhat should our reaction be when others pray for our conversion?

    By Selwyn Duke There recently was a story about a German Jewish leader, Charlotte Knobloch, who criticized Pope Benedict XVI for allowing a traditional Easter prayer that calls for the conversion of the Jewish people. Her reaction raises an interesting issue, as praying for conversion isn’t unique to Catholics any more than taking offense to…

  • Exposing the Galileo Myth

    By Selwyn Duke I responded today to an American Thinker piece by fellow AT contributor James Lewis titled "The Epicycles of Global Warming."  While Lewis’ article was very well done, it included a recapitulation of the Galileo myth, and I was moved to address it.  Here is my response:

  • Florida Wants to Suppress Facts That Contradict Evolution

    World Net Daily has a piece today about how the state of Florida aims to institute a science teaching standard that would teach evolution as fact and ignore facts that might contradict it.  Writes WND:

  • Reconsidering the Inquisition

    A columnist named Vox Day wrote an excellent piece in which he puts the Spanish Inquisition in perspective.   Day, and intelligent man who has obviously done his homework (I can’t say much for his haircut, though), starts out:

  • An Anti-Christian Children’s Book

    By Selwyn Duke The secular fundamentalists are on the march, and one of their latest efforts is a German children’s book that impugns religion.  It’s a blunt, vile screed titled How Do I Get to God, Asked the Small Piglet, which seems like it was written by a low-rent Christopher Hitchens.   In a DW-World.DE piece…

  • New Ageism Causes Depression

    By Selwyn Duke World Net Daily is currently running an article about how people who embrace non-traditional spiritual beliefs exhibit more psychological problems and anti-social behavior than traditional believers. 

  • New Year’s Resolutions

    By Selwyn Duke I was never one for New Year’s Resolutions.  Quite frankly, they always struck me as silly.  If a change is warranted, why wait for a certain date to make it?

  • Faith on Your Lips

    By Selwyn Duke People of true faith increasingly become aware of the effort to strike Christmas and Christianity from our cultural landscape.  And some of us fight quite feverishly to preserve our traditions, we really do.  We may find out that certain stores prohibit their employees from saying "Merry Christmas" and then boycott those establishments. …