Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.
Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don’t even have that.
Whatever sins Christians engaged in the past, and they were extensive, the fact is that the most humane and decent countries in the world nearly all have Christian origins. That is not true of states that grew out of Islam.
You judge people in the context of their time, not in the context of ours.
The Missing Tile syndrome is ubiquitous. If you are overweight, all you see are flat stomachs and perfect physical specimens. If you have pimples, all you see is flawless skin. Women who have difficulty getting pregnant walk around seeing only pregnant women and babies. Nor do you need to be overweight, have pimples, be balding, or want a child to believe that you have a missing tile. You can allow any real – or merely perceived – flaw to diminish your happiness.
Societies are preoccupied with just about everything other than making good people. For some, it is intelligence. Parents are often more concerned with their children’s IQs than their children’s characters. And many people confuse higher education with decency and moral insight.
The only people who have no bad tendencies are dead.
Israel attacked Gaza solely in response to hundreds of rockets sent by Hamas to kill as many Israelis as possible.
A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth – whether inside or outside a courtroom.
America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion, not secularism.
It was not the creation of 760,000 Arab-Palestinian refugees that has created this hatred. It was this hatred that created the refugees. Had six Arab armies not attacked Israel to destroy it in 1948, there would not have been any refugees.
People who know the difference between right and wrong do the wrong thing all the time. You know why? Because they can.
When Israel gave Gaza over to the Palestinians, it did not embargo essentials such as cement. But none of the millions of tons of cement allowed, or later smuggled, into Gaza were used to building schools or hospitals. They were used to build tunnels to smuggle terrorists into Israel and to hide rockets.
Israel is the only country in the world targeted for annihilation.
Though Israel is charged with engaging in genocide against Palestinians, in the last 20 years, the number of Palestinians has doubled; and since Israel’s founding in 1948, the Palestinian population has grown five-fold. It must surely rank as the least effective genocide in world history.
Where, sir, are the Christian and Jewish jihadists? The only Jewish state in the world is one of the freest countries on earth, with protections for minority religions and women and homosexuals unknown anywhere in the Muslim world. And virtually every free country in the world is in the Christian world.
From Marx until today, victim groups have played an indispensable role in Leftist success. Without victim groups, the Left cannot succeed.
The number of innocents killed by Leftist movements dwarfs the numbers killed by any other movement in a comparable period of time at any time in history, and certainly in the modern world. The Church, a favorite target of the Left, hardly competes. For example, in its nearly five hundred years of existence the Inquisition killed approximately five thousand people. And that ended more than five hundred years ago, when barbarity was the norm.
Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.
Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.