As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“[T]he US Supreme Court declined this morning to hear a church’s appeal of a lower court’s decision….Attorneys for Bronx Household insist that the ban on rentals for worship is unfair to churches.” CT
Right-to-die bill … passes California Senate committee
“The study was focused on those who have not attended church within the past six months, and found that the majority of such people identify as non-practicing Christians” CPost
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech resonated with many political conservatives, but perhaps even more so with those of us who believe that God will still keep the promises he made to literal ethnic Israel. Of course many people respect Netanyahu and do not believe those promises are still valid. So this is about our opinion of Netanyahu, no matter how we got to that opinion.
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Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the State? Has it not preached in place of these, charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and Mother Church? Christian socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.
These words of Marx and Engels (Communist Manifesto, 3:I:a) suggest that Christianity may be initially quite useful for the socialist cause. Even though the abolition of all religion is ultimately a necessity in their suggested system, Marx and Engels recognize the practicality of incremental progress toward their goals. Hence, they welcome a slight retasking of Christian ideas in order to facilitate societal drift toward socialism, and ultimately toward communism.
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