This is a chapter in my unfinished book, The Devil’s History of the United States I’ve often lamented the demise of public religious institutions, for that is an important part of the Foundation of the House. Moses Sands blamed much of…
Category: Religion
Vain Men’s Thirst for Kings
(Timely, and unedited from a 2010 essay at RedState.com. Since then, they’ve changed, I haven’t.) A caution to the non-religious: In what follows I use religious references from the Old Testament. They are intended as metaphors, or teaching tools. Still, this…
A Letter for the Lost; Modern Atheists
Blaise Pascal(1623-62), the French mathematician, inventor and philosopher, said, and I paraphrase, There are three kinds of people: Those who are found, those who are not found but seeking to be found, and those who are lost not knowing they…