Tag: Culture
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Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
George Michalopulos, occasional contributer (well, a bit more than occasional) to the AOI blog wrote a review of David Bentley Hart’s new book “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies” that is posted on the OrthodoxyToday.org site. Hart takes a close look at the new atheist’s arguments and dismantles them one by one,…
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America’s Penance?
Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall…
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Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
Occasional commentator to AOI blog and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith warns in a recent article that, “society’s belief in the unique moral value and importance of human life is under unprecedented assault…Most people still believe in human exceptionalism and are unaware that powerful social and cultural forces are working diligently to dismantle the…
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Archbishop Hilarion speaks out against euthanasia
H/T: Byzantine, TX (mospat.ru) – On 7 November 2009, the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk took part in “The Church and the World” TV Programme and answered questions on health care. He commented on the news of the Swiss authorities’ intention to tighten the legislation allowing…