Monthly Archives: July 2008
From Whence Religious Truth?
With Postmodernism in full swing, it almost seems as if new religions are springing up faster than new followers can be made. Especially hot on the market is custom religion – tailored from an eclectic mix to fit your own needs and desires; something deep enough to make you look sophisticated (“spiritual but not religious”), [...]A Humble or a Haughty Spirit?
I was out driving the other day with the radio turned to a Christian radio station, when a song lyric jumped out at me: Because you would rather die / Than to ever live without me. Lines like this have never sat well with me, but I always attributed my discomfort to a question of [...]Comparative Government: A Thought Experiment
The news has been filled recently with stories like minimum wage jumping 70ยข, or California banning trans-fats in restaurants, all ostensibly for the sake of the common employee/consumer. Things which sound nice and warm and fuzzy on the surface – who doesn’t want to help out the bottom rung of society, or to make Californian [...]