Many years ago, a disguised Mafia “hitman” was interviewed on national TV. He was asked a variety of questions but the one that stood out in my mind was how he dealt with his conscience. His laconic response was, “What’s a conscience?”
Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Bill Clinton, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton noted, Hitler, Nazi Germany, totalitarianism
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Americans educated by government today are, for the most part, hopelessly ignorant of their own nation’s history—and that’s no accident. They’re beyond ignorant when it comes to civics, too. On the history of the rest of the world, or the history of communism, Americans are generally clueless as well. This was all by design, of course.
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Tagged 1619 Projec, Aaron Sargent, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Alexis de Tocqueville, Chinese Communist Party, Communist Party, George Orwell, Howard Zinn, John Dewey, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Marion Smith, Mary Grabar, Murray Bessette, Nation's Report Card, National Endowment for the Humanities, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Norman Dodd, Outline Political History of the Americas, patriotic education, Pulitzer Prize, Reece Committee, The New York Times, u.s. department of education, Walter Duranty, William Z. Foster
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A recent Barna Survey said church attendance has been declining nationwide over the past 10 years. While the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area ranked as America's most de-churched, eight of the top 10 "post-Christian" cities in America are all in the Northeastern United States. In Illinois, Chicago came in at number 19, the Quad-cities area at 50 and Champaign-Springfield-Decatur in the center of the state came in at 55 on this ominous list.
