Tag Archives: totalitarianism
Without a Conscience
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
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Bill Clinton, Christianity, G.K. Chesterton noted, Hitler, Nazi Germany, totalitarianism
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The Evil Lurking Behind the Veil
Propaganda has rather negative connotations. Because it is generally used in pursuit of an agenda, truth may be irrelevant or even an obstacle. Whether you agree with the terminology, it is considered propaganda when a country prepares its citizens and military for war. Because it is not generally acceptable to want to kill another person, the military mostly trains its soldiers to hate the enemy.
Posted in CRT/Racism/BLM, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Antifa, BLM, China, Communism, Cuba, Domino Effect, evangelicalism, George Floyd, Left, North Korea, passivism, propoganda, Southeast Asia, The Evil Lurking Behind the Veil, tolerance, totalitarian, totalitarianism, Vietnam, Vietnamese War
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Postcard From Pre-Totalitarian America
Last year, I spoke to a Soviet-born scholar who teaches in an American public university. I’m using a quote from our discussion in my forthcoming (September) book, Live Not By Lies. This morning, she sent me this e-mail, which I reproduce here with her permission:
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Dr. Silvester Krcmery, Hannah Arendt, Live Not By Lies, Marxism, Nicholas Christakis, Rod Dreher, Socialism, totalitarianism, Tyranny
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