JFK on the Separation of Church and State

Commenter of Clipmarks post asks:
Where have we gone wrong?

Here is my reply:

Some have pretended that we are a secular nation and there is some backlash to that sort of idiocy. Especially when one considers the fact that it is the secularists responsible for opposing all of the things for which JFK speaks out in support. Where there is a stat-ist, anti-libertarian fervor there is religious intolerance. There has to be be because religion gets in the way of control.
Where there is individualist, libertarianism there is religious acceptance. There has to be because that is love.

One who does not respect the individual liberty of another is neither faithful nor tolerant. One who preaches secularism is neither a patriot nor tolerant.

That said. People are imperfect, which is basically the driving foundational principle of our Nation.

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What will the future say?

MIT Professor Richard Lindzen, PhD, Atmospheric Science

clipped from www.intellectualconservative.com "Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age." – MIT Professor Richard Lindzen, PhD, Atmospheric Science

The Tytler Cycle of Society

clipped from www.commonsensegovernment.com From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage “From bondage to spiritual faith               (1760 to 1769) “From spiritual faith to great courage     (1770 to 1783) “From courage to liberty                            (1784 to 1865) “From liberty to abundance                                   (1866 to 1969) “From abundance to complacency                      (1970 to 1989) “From complacency to apathy                  (1990 to 2000) “From apathy to dependence                    (2001 to 2007) “From dependence back into bondage   (2008 to ????)

No! Cannes does not matter. Thank Goodness

I found this absolutely hilarious.

clipped from www.time.com The other, sadder truth is that the foreign films shown here, and at big festivals like Berlin, Venice, Toronto and New York, have never had less an impact on the average U.S. moviegoer than they do now. Long gone is the time when every American with a pretense to culture felt obliged to know all about ten or twenty top European or Asian directors. (Long gone is the time when Americans felt required to have a pretense to culture, let alone the real thing.) The winners of Cannes' top prize, the Palme d'Or, used to be guaranteed a healthy run in American art houses. But the franchise auteurs whose films are in this year's main competition — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne from Belgium, Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Turkey, Jia Zhangke from China — have made hardly a dent in the States, on either moviegoers or young moviemakers. They are leaders without followers.

Truth in the real world

clipped from christiantheology.wordpress.com How we apprehend and measure truth in the real world is not reducible to the world that people end up with when they choose to narrow the scope so as to exclude the real world. But when they go home at night they live in the real world with the rest of us. The world where good and evil exist and people matter more than all of the accumulated content of the sciences combined. More than the stars themselves, and we would give up any one of them in all their glory for the peace and safety of even one of our small children. Because in the end, if we are true to ourselves, we can only live consistently in a Theistic universe. It’s the one we we’re made for, and the kind of thing we are doesn’t make sense in any other. The one where persons are more important by far than anything else, and are not reducible to chance and time and matter in the void, but carry within themselves a transcendent importance that speaks of something else.

Wonderful Article by Christopher Neiswonger called Atheism is unthinkable.