For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what’s in it for them.
I’m a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.
Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.
In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.
Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.
If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.
The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.
Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.
Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ’s existence than for any of theirs.
A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.
I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama’s actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.
Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being – confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented – is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.
For me, victory isn’t measured by winning in the traditional sense.