Envy St. has been the road most travelled from the start. Covetousness and self-deception have been the vehicles of choice. The serpent promised the first couple that they could become like God – their projected 1%. “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of…
Just the other day I was verbally assaulted with socialism. Per my usual workday I was taking the morning commuter into downtown Chicago. As I stand in the train’s vestibule I visit with my fellow travelers. Our conversations run the gamut of silly to bordering on the unspoken: politics, religion and money. Well, just as…
Darwin’s Myopia, in excerpts: “Once, Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelly “gave me great pleasure” and “I took intense delight in Shakespeare.” -Charles Darwin ~~~ “In his old age Darwin admitted, “I have lost the power of becoming deeply attached to anyone.” He assured Tennyson that there was nothing in his theories to prevent anyone…
Living in a Material World, Part Two Not long ago, while riding the commuter train home, I sat down on an upper row seat not far from a young Indian woman. Her head was covered so I believed her to be a devoutly religious person. On her lap was Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. I wondered…
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide.” James Burnham Father and son, two generations at Cantigny “Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of…
Michael Brown’s strong arm robbery of cigars has led to hundreds of victims. These would include his parents, Officer Wilson and his family, the community of Ferguson including a young Christian woman who owned a store named Hidden Treasures (store demolished in flames by rioters) and the hundreds who have been injured physically, financially and emotionally.…
“Fair is foul and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air.” If like me you are a follower of The Way then I don’t have to tell you that we live in an age of ever encroaching evil. The effects: man’s inhumanity to man is shown daily on the…