Creation Revolution

Category: Politics

• The flat earth myth

  by Jonathan Sarfati For the last 200 years or so, many anti-Christians have resorted to a scurrilous lie (acting consistently with their worldview1): that the early and medieval Christian Church taught that the earth is flat.2 One of the most prominent … Continue reading →

  

• Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking about Government Handouts

  Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.  It is inimical to the … Continue reading →

  

• “The Lady’s Not for Turning” — Margaret Thatcher and the Leadership of Conviction

  Margaret Thatcher, one of the most significant leaders of the 20th century, died [this week] at age 87. A model of convictional leadership, Margaret Thatcher became almost universally known as Britain’s “Iron Lady.” In May 1979, Margaret Thatcher moved into … Continue reading →

  

• Thomas Paine on Defensive War and Keeping Arms

  ‎”The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, DISCOURAGE and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and PRESERVE ORDER in the world as well as property. The balance … Continue reading →

  

• Bracketing Morality — The Marginalization of Moral Argument in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

  By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. “Somewhere along the way, standing up for gay marriage went from nervy to trendy.” This was the assessment offered by Frank Bruni, an influential openly-gay columnist for The New York Times. Bruni’s column, published just as … Continue reading →

  

• Marriage in the Dock—The Supreme Court Considers Same-Sex Marriage

  The next two days are destined to stand among the most significant days in our nation’s constitutional history, but the issues at stake reach far beyond the U.S. Constitution. Nothing less than marriage is in the dock, with the nation’s … Continue reading →

  

• Ronald Reagan on the First Amendment

  “I believe standing up for America also means standing up for the God who has so blessed this land. We’ve strayed so far, it may be later than we think. There’s a hunger in our land to see traditional values … Continue reading →

  

• Martin Luther King Jr. on Dangerous Thinking

    Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.   Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

  

• Adultery: When Law and Morality (used to) Agree

  By Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. The Colorado legislature is considering the repeal of laws in the state that criminalize adultery or any act that would “promote sexual immorality.” According to Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post, the process of repeal is … Continue reading →

  

• John Adams on the loss of Liberty

  ‎”Cities may be rebuilt, and a people, reduced to poverty, may acquire fresh property. But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be re stored. Liberty once lost, is lost forever. When the people once surrender their … Continue reading →

  

• Lincoln Laments at Gettysburg: Biblical Creation and Civil War Insights

  by James J. S. Johnson, J.D., Th.D. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.1 These words spoken … Continue reading →

  

• Reporter Lies About Academic Freedom Bills, Calls Them “Anti-Science”

  By David Coppedge Right out of NCSE talking points, lies flowed from the pen of a reporter intent on stopping academic freedom bills for public schools. On Discovery News (no connection with the Discovery Institute), reprinted on Live Science, Larry O’Hanlon set … Continue reading →

  

• Tench Coxe, James Madison’s friend, on the 2nd Amendment

  Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow … Continue reading →

  

• Joseph Story on How Republics Fall

  ‎”Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people … Continue reading →

  

• Scientocracy Is Coming

  The scientocracy C. S. Lewis feared is seriously being considered by left-leaning, abortion-promoting scientism communities. “Time for science to seize political power” blazes a headline on New Scientist by Michael Brooks. In your wildest dreams, could you imagine a government that builds its … Continue reading →

  

• Why Conservatives Should End the Debt Ceiling Debate

  Watching the American scene in the 1960s, historian Daniel Boorstin, invented the idea of the “pseudo-event.” The rise of television and modern mass media had produced a transformation of the news business, so that what now mattered was not if … Continue reading →

  

• The Giglio Imbroglio — The Public Inauguration of a New Moral McCarthyism

  A new chapter in America’s moral revolution came today as Atlanta pastor Louie Giglio withdrew from giving the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony. In a statement released to the White House and the Presidential Inaugural Committee, Giglio said … Continue reading →

  

• Samuel Adams on the Need for Patriots

  If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin. Samuel Adams, Letter to James Warren, October 24, … Continue reading →

  

• Is Science a Special Interest Group for One Party?

  A commentator in the world’s leading science journal advised that science needs to work harder at becoming bipartisan. Daniel Sarewitz, whose pointed commentaries are often critical of science as it is compared to how it should be, wrote a disturbing … Continue reading →

  

• Winston Churchill on Socialism

  “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.”   Winston Churchill – Speech (May 28th, 1948) at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, in Never Give In! : The best of Winston Churchill’s … Continue reading →