Bill Muehlenberg's Culture Watch
Homeschooling and the War Against Children
July 12, 2009
Children are our future. The way our children develop determines how society develops. And when ideological battles are being fought in a culture, children are the trophy. Those who can control the children will be able to control a culture. That is why totalitarian states always seek to get control of children, especially from very early ages.
Read more...Paying People to be Responsible
June 29, 2009
The concept of personal responsibility has taken a battering lately. People are quite happy to blame anyone and anything other than themselves for their behaviour and actions. We are happy to pass the buck and shift the blame instead of taking ownership of what we do.
Read more...More Green Lunacy
June 22, 2009
Some of the more radical green groups can come up with some quite bizarre and ludicrous stuff. One is left wondering whether the best response is laughter, tears of hari-kari. The supply of examples seems endless.
Read more...More Secular-Left Double Standards
June 15, 2009
I know it seems like ages ago, but try to think back to the days when George W. Bush was in the White House. You knew he was there because almost on a daily basis the mainstream media was warning about the dangers of having a professing Christian lead the nation. We were regularly warned that America was about to be turned into a theocracy.
Read more...Islam, Obama and Appeasement
June 8, 2009
To simply seek to get along for the sake of getting along, without acknowledging fundamental differences of worldviews, belief systems and values is a recipe for disaster. Indeed, the attempt to achieve peace at any cost can often be extremely reckless and costly.
Read more...Humanitarians: Please, Spare the Humans
June 1, 2009
I am not a big fan of conspiracy theories. They tend to be a dime a dozen, and are usually without merit. I do not think there is a monolithic cabal of conspirators plotting to take over planet earth. However, it is certainly the case that there are plenty of people out there who are hatching sinister schemes on a regular basis. And when you put a bunch of these folks together in the same room you can certainly end up with some really big trouble indeed.
Read more...Thinking About Islam and Public Policy
May 25, 2009
How Western governments deal with the threat of militant Islam is a vexed issue. Easy answers are hard to come by. Yet a new volume seeks to carefully explore such issues. I refer to Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, edited by David Claydon (Acorn Press, 2009).
Read more...Defending the Indefensible
May 18, 2009
If anyone wonders why society is in such a mess, they simply need to look at our ruling elites. Many of our opinion makers, judges, movers and shakers, and intellectualoids tend to promote ideas, values and worldviews which are not only contrary to the sensible majority, but are often perverse, irrational and outrageous.
Read more...Targeting Toddlers
May 11, 2009
The activists of the secular left are no dummies; they know that in order to win the culture wars, they must get access to our children, and the younger the better. They know that if they can indoctrinate our kids at the most early ages possible, they will have a much better chance of seeing their social engineering agenda accomplished in full.
Read more...Rogue Science and Human Cloning
April 26, 2009
The danger always exists that if science can do something, it will do it. But simply because something can be done does not mean that it should be done. Some scientific possibilities are better left alone, never to be pursued. Human cloning is one such case.
Read more...More Population Madness, More Human Culls
April 24, 2009
With increasing regularity our elite moonbeams are coming out with over-the-top proposals to save the planet. In their zeal to rescue mother earth, these green fanatics are quite happy to wipe out much of the human population to achieve their goals.
Read more...BHO and Dhimmitude
April 17, 2009
Barack Hussein Obama promised us he would take a different approach to Islam and the Middle East. That he has certainly done. There is a name for it - it is called dhimmitude. On his recent overseas trip he has made it clear that national self-loathing and grovelling to Islam will now be basic elements of American foreign policy.
Read more...Our Christophobes at Work
April 13, 2009
It seems that anytime is a good time to take pot-shots at Christianity. But if this anti-Christian bigotry can take place over holy days on the Christian calander, so much the better. Thus this Easter we see more drive-by shootings against Christianity.
Read more...The Slippery Slope in Action - Euthanasia Kills
April 7, 2009
Whenever contentious social changes are promoted by various activist groups, we are always assured that adequate safeguards will be set in place, and that things will not spiral out of control. Whether it is abortion, drugs, prostitution, or pornography, we are always assured that these things will be kept in check. Consider the issue of euthanasia.
Read more...The Coercive Utopia Known as Sweden
April 6, 2009
There are plenty of countries in the West which have promoted secular, leftist ideologies and have embraced radical social engineering. And these utopian schemers are quite happy to use the coercive powers of the state to enforce their radical objectives. Sweden is a leading case in point, and its latest act of radicalism is to legalise same-sex marriage.
Read more...The Dandelion Liberation Front
March 31, 2009
One keeps coming back to the dictum attributed to GK Chesterton: “When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in anything.” Europeans of course have taken this further than anyone else. The most secular continent on earth, Europe is also the most radical when it comes to attacking human dignity and the sanctity of life. It is also the most radical when it comes to conferring legal status and rights on non-humans.
Read more...Those Funky Debaptists, and Other Tales
March 30, 2009
If I were paid for every case of lunacy I document on this site, I would have enough moolah by now to purchase a small nation. It is a fulltime job just keeping up with all the moonbeam ideas and activities taking place around us every day. What was that saying about ‘whom the gods would destroy, the first make crazy’?
Read more...How to Kill a Nation (From Within)
March 23, 2009
There is nothing great about Great Britain any more. Having jettisoned and renounced its own Judeo-Christian heritage, it is left floundering on the raging tempest of relativism, subjectivism, radical individualism and statism.
Read more...The Islamic Assault on Free Speech
March 16, 2009
To have religious anti-defamation laws on an international scale would achieve as much for the Islamists as 9/11 ever did. As always, eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, and this goes for religious freedom as well. The question is, will the West resist this clampdown on freedom of speech, or will it instead submit to appeasement and dhimmitude?
Read more...Anti-Natalist Fatalists
March 9, 2009
Planet earth is doomed. That is the clear message coming from the population control zealots. These anti-natalists are certain that if we do not immediately take radical steps to curb population growth we will all perish. Of course we have been hearing this gloom and doom ideology for decades now.
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