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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:28:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-ideas-and-the-west/ https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-ideas-and-the-west/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:27:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13021 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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An excerpt from an essay published on OrthodoxyToday.org. By Samuel Gregg Yet as the French theologian Jean Daniélou S.J. once observed, there is no true civilization that is not also religious. In the case of Western civilization, that means Judaism and Christianity. The question of religious truth is something with which we must allow every […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-ideas-and-the-west/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/is-america-becoming-europe/ https://www.aoiusa.org/is-america-becoming-europe/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:30:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12539 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future Across the Atlantic, Americans see European economies faltering under enormous debt, overburdened welfare states, governments controlling close to fifty percent of the economy, high taxation, heavily regulated labor markets, aging populations, and large numbers of public sector workers. They also see a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/is-america-becoming-europe/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/ https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:42:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12220 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: The American Spectator By Samuel Gregg The “enlightened” Western mind can no longer think seriously or coherently about religion. Given the decidedly strange response of the Obama Administration and much of the Western commentariat to the violence sweeping the Islamic world, one temptation is to view their reaction as simple incomprehension in the face […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-the-dictatorship-of-relativism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-the-dictatorship-of-relativism/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11450 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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When the Manhattan Declaration first came out, Orthodox signers came under considerable criticism. Too much culture wars was the usual response. I signed the document because I saw that efforts to institutionalize secular liberalism could only succeed if dissenting voices were silenced. The cost of that silence is high and will include the loss of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-the-dictatorship-of-relativism/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/samuel-gregg-christians-in-a-post-welfare-state-world/ https://www.aoiusa.org/samuel-gregg-christians-in-a-post-welfare-state-world/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:53:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9787 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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How much of the activism of the Progressive wing of American Christianity (including some Orthodox participants unfortunately) in the current budget battles is nothing more than grabbing its piece of the federal pie before the welfare state collapses? Progressives like Jim Wallis and others routinely use the moral imperatives of the gospel to justify their […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/samuel-gregg-christians-in-a-post-welfare-state-world/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/socialism-threat-to-freedom/ https://www.aoiusa.org/socialism-threat-to-freedom/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:06:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6274 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Samuel Gregg, Director of Research at the Acton Institute offers an excellent introduction to socialism on a recent interview on EWTN. He discusses the philosophical foundations of socialism including its implicit anthropology and cosmology, as well as its historical record. He draws the necessary distinctions between Gramscian vs Leninist socialism (the cultural means of production […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/socialism-threat-to-freedom/feed/ 11