Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer’s life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person’s family.
Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.
There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
For all of higher civilization’s recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.