Like people, no country is all good and no country is all bad.  Great heroism can occur in the worst of times and great evils can happen among the most enlightened of peoples.  That said, the impact of some countries has been better than the impact of others.  Genghiz Khan’s empire comes to mind as an…

The “war” between certain kinds of religion and science is continuing unabated.  The village atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris use this kind of thing to lambast religion in general, just as Christian Fundamentalists give all kinds of Christianity a bad name.  In fact the war between religion and science is entirely a…

In a comment on my “Spiritual Warrior” post Rombald suggested I was too concerned about the longevity of America’s religious liberty.  Here is my answer, because to do the issue credit took me beyond a simple reply. 

UPDATE below New conservative folk hero James O’Keefe is turning out to have been a long time habitué of white supremacist gatherings and an associate of anti-Semites and racists according to a new report at Salon.  If so he is a perfect representative for a disturbingly big current within modern “conservatism.” O’Keefe’s racist behavior long…

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