[jennyp]

Does this sound far-fetched? Atheistic, agnostic and humanist organizations this year launched a five-year media project to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin in 2009 with the creation of February 12th as “Darwin Day,” an annual holiday

People celebrating Darwin's Birthday? Oh the horror! :-)

[Clock King]

If Democrats win, the future will be Darwinian and Atheistocratic.

No. It will be Islam.

[melsec]

Well, then, said Jesus, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s.” No collaboration. No sedition. Just the clean, perfect blow of truth’s sword, sharper than Ockham’s Razor, sundering the Gordian Knot that tied and enslaved people to politics and to Caesar. And implicit in Jesus’ reply was a subtle reminder that, once again, people who should worship God were being seduced by graven images of silver, gold and worldly power.

Nice article. I don't agree fully that the 'subtle' conclusions are particularly implicit in this verse. Too many people look for what they see as implicit in the sciptures and not just the simple truth that you saw initially.

How many people pay all of their taxes? and how many truely render to God their whole lives? Hey but let's talk about the subtlties and not the hard substance. In this we all fall down!

Cheers,

Mel

[tbird5]

I accept his points but I've never understood why St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine's Day or Santa Claus have remained. With so many protestant's in this country,as he says, why do they like catholic saint days and traditions. It was bound to happen that these days would turn to secular days. He must be catholic.

[lelio]

But today the Church of England, with 70 million Anglican Communicants worldwide, may be on the verge of breaking apart over the issue of who may marry whom.

I'm sure there were wringing hands back then of "WILL ENGLAND SURVIVE DIVORCE!?" just like today's "Will America survive gay marriage?"

When people abandon their old faith, they do not thereafter believe in nothing. They believe in anything – from New Age mysticism to UFOs to the pseudo-religious cult of Marxism.

Speak for yourself. Because someone abandons your belief structure they're prone to any crackpot theory that comes down the pike? Hey I think the Egyptians said the same thing.

This Darwin Day could be used for contemplating how we arose by evolution from primordial slime on a godless hunk of rock hurtling without meaning or purpose around a mediocre star soon to burn out in a near-eternal void of frigid darkness.

Hrm, that does seem rather bleak. I know let me make up an imaginary friend to tell me all is going to be okay one day.

[EdReform]

read later...

[William Terrell]

“I will defend the sanctity of marriage against activist courts and local officials who want to redefine marriage,” the President told the evangelical gathering. “The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution. I support a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”

Then get rid of nofault divorce.

[Tax-chick]

This intersection is a place to recall William F. Buckley, Jr.’s definition of a moderate – that if liberals engaged in cannibalism and conservatives denounced cannibalism as sin and abomination, a moderate would be someone who ate only selected people on limited occasions.

Sometimes it's hard to remember that Buckley can be funny!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The first step will be his secularization to mere “Patrick,” in the same way a U.S. postage stamp years ago snipped off the “St.” when honoring “Francis of Assisi.”

Or the dropping of "Reverend" when talking about Martin Luther King.

I think the author got a little lost in the end. Lefties don't like science either. I give you the publick skools as evidence.

[freeeee]

Politics is no longer limited to questions of taxing or spending or foreign relations. Democrats are pushing politics into every nook and cranny of our lives, from what we may speak aloud to how big our fast-food hamburger is allowed to be.

R's claiming to be the party of small government, after what they've done lately? Wow, now that's shameless! They must think we have the memory span of a housefly.