The 2010 Values Voters Summit Concludes

Well folks, the 2010 Values Voters summit just concluded and I’ve got to be honest: It makes me sad.  Mostly, I think it arises from the knowledge that, in a vast percentage of cases, people are not binary in terms of being “good” or “bad”.  The same mindset that pervaded the Values Voters Summit seems [...]

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A Christ World View vs. a Biblical World View

I define a Christian as someone who believes and has faith that Jesus Christ: Is the son of God, Died for our sins on the cross, Was raised and resurrected from the grave after three days, and Will return to judge the world offering eternal salvation to his followers Something that irritates me is a [...]

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Response to What Is Probably the Most Ignorant Message I’ve Received In 10 Years of Writing Finance Articles

A reader named Medusa wrote me and, to keep it short, explained that I shouldn’t believe people should be rich because the Bible is against rich people, that I was going to die a miserable, lonely old man with no one who loved me because I saved my money instead of spending it, and that [...]

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Is There a Separation of Church and State in the United States?

A friend from college and I have been discussing whether the separation of church and state is what the founders intended and whether it is a good or bad thing for society.  After a few years of studying the issue, here are my conclusions.  I’ll keep it as brief as I can. I despise intellectual [...]

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My Reflections on Christian Legal Society Chapter of University of California Hastings College of Law v. Martinez Supreme Court Ruling

Back in college, when I was the student body treasurer and chairman of the finance board, a Christian group known as Campus Crusade for Christ threatened to sue the university because they wanted to be officially recognized.  The problem was they required that their elected leaders leaders sign a personal “Statement of Beliefs” pledge that [...]

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Shocking Facts About Abortion In America (And the Drop In Christians as a Percentage of the Population)

Instead of writing the next chapter of the book I’m working on, as I should be, I am playing We Rule and studying statistics and demographic data from various nations around the world. I’m not exactly sure how this began, but somehow or another, I ended up in databases and that started my research. What [...]

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Does Religion Have a Responsibility to Look to Science?

Here’s an interesting question: Does religion have just as much responsibility to examine scientific evidence as it does religious tradition and scriptural text? Put another way: Throughout history, religion taken as a whole has lagged behind scientific discovery and development, only to redefine itself decades, or even centuries, later.  In the case of Christianity, the [...]

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Dominion Theology and the United States

A few weeks ago, I was reading a political message board where some commentators espoused their sincere belief that all of humanity’s problems will be solved when they succeed in implementing dominion theology.  Intrigued, I began to research the concept.  What I found was frightening.  The only good news is that all mainline Christian religions [...]

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The Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah

Discussing the Sin of Sodom at a Family Dinner After we left St. Louis, I stopped by to visit family and spent an afternoon at my grandmother’s house having dinner, discussing politics, and Christianity in general.  The conversation was great and had many of the same topics that the younger generation of Christians have been [...]

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