The View From 1776

Tradition & Morality

Friday, May 02, 2008

Solid Families Are the Foundation of the Nation

Melanie Wooten discusses the necessity to return to child-bearing and child-rearing families if the United States is to survive.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Star Parker on God or Government?

Take a look at this video clip that Mita Pogue sent to me.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Europe: The Dark Continent

The light of God’s truth has been snuffed out in Europe, now the least Christian and the most secularized and socialized part of the world.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Cheap Grace

Reactions of some nominal Christians to the message of Pope Benedict XVI are nothing more than liberal-progressive-socialistic “toleration.”

Friday, April 25, 2008

Next Round - Buckley vs Mailer

For the latest installment of George Shadroui’s chronicle of William F. Buckley, Jr’s battles with the liberal-progressive wing, this time with Norman Mailer, read Crossing Swords: Norman Mailer and the Culture Wars on The Intellectual Conservative website.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Amoral Relativism in a Revolving Door

The shibboleth of liberal-progressive-socialism is tolerance, which in practice means the near absence of standards.  Anything other than the morality of Judeo-Christianity is acceptable.

What then to do when actions by a certifiable liberal-progressive offend other liberal-progressives?  Without the rejected standards of God-given moral principle, liberal-progressives are left floundering.

Read about the latest aesthetic standards at Yale University.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

The Creation of Western Civilization

An essay by Pope Benedict XVI, published on the First Things website, gives us an excellent, summary overview of the religious, cultural, and political transformations leading to modern-day Europe.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Slavery, Freedom, and Forgiveness

Vengeful anger is spiritual slavery from which we are delivered by Christian love and forgiveness.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Liberals Reject Abstinence Education

Evidence suggests that pre-marital sexual abstinence and marital fidelity reduce illegitimate births, abortions, and divorces.  Democrats will have none of it.

Read ScrappleFace’s full report.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Good News From the Graveyard!

Jesus is Risen!