secularism

By Bob Ellis • December 29th, 2008

This is a great Fox News Special on Religion and History in Washington, D.C. Newt Gingrich touched on some of this material when he spoke at the FRC Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. a few months ago.
Every year the fight continues over where nativity scenes and menorahs can be displayed. Join host Newt Gingrich [...] Read more »

From WorldNetDaily:
A public school teacher in Mississippi marked down an eleven-year-old’s Christmas poem assignment and told the boy to rewrite it because he used the word “Jesus,” which, the instructor explained, is a name not allowed in school.
Liberty Counsel, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, reports that sixth-grader Andrew White of Hattiesburg, [...] Read more »

Do you go Christmas shopping, or do you go shopping for that unspeakable holiday? Or do you just buy gifts for friends and family in December for no good reason at all?
Some people go Christmas shopping, but in his Stoplight® video commentary, Stuart Shepard goes shopping for Christmas — to see which retailers want [...] Read more »

Every Christmas for the past several years now we see secularists and other God-haters come out of the woodwork and try to erase Christmas from America. Well, at least any connection Christmas has to its Christian meaning.
Secularists are even getting so nutty that they see Jesus in “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of The Christian Post
By Jennifer RileyChristian Post ReporterWed, Dec. 10 2008 05:20 PM ESTThe head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales expressed frustration this week that religion is seen as a “private eccentricity” in Britain, where it is increasingly treated with hostility.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, criticized what he [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of The Christian Post
By Elena GarciaChristian Post ReporterTue, Dec. 09 2008 02:02 PM EST
Hundreds rallied outside the Washington Capitol on Sunday to protest a holiday sign erected by a group of atheists that disparages religion as a “myth” and declares there is no God.
A crowd of 500 protesters gathered on the Capitol’s [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of The Christian Post
By Katherine T. PhanChristian Post ReporterSat, Dec. 06 2008 08:56 AM EST
Two Christian-based groups have purchased advertisements with Washington D.C. Metro buses to counter the atheist “Why Believe in a God?” bus campaign with their own pro-God Christmas ads.
The Center for Family Development, a Catholic-based non-profit in Bethesda, [...] Read more »

This video from CitizenLink illustrates in a humorous way the politically correct, anti-Christian, silly practice some retailers have of not saying “Christmas” around the holiday that we all know is “Christmas” (in a country where about 84% of Americans identify with Christianity anyway).
Can’t you just hear those great old Christmas songs spiffed up for the [...] Read more »

This is a good video from the Acton Institute, briefly illustrating why secularism is not the neutral “umpire” it’s disciples claim it to be.
It is rather a player in the arena of ideas, a contender in the contest of worldviews, just like any other.
The thing is, in our misguided culture, we have allowed it to [...] Read more »

My friend and fellow contributor at Dakota Voice, Paul Scates, wrote me this morning asking if I had read anything about a statement that Barrack Obama allegedly made to the effect that we are no longer a Christian nation. This jogged my memory and after a brief search of the Internet I discovered several [...] Read more »