WORSHIPPING THE STATE: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion by Benjamin Wiker (Washington, DC: Regnery) Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN: 9781621570295 RRP: AUD$55.90 Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg Of the major competing ideologies and worldviews locked in fierce combat with Christianity to see which will gain supremacy, the one that has been in constant conflict…
Not necessarily hypocrisy Sir, I refer to Dr Andrew T. Kania’s article, “Must we be slaves of time and place?” (News Weekly, September 14, 2013). If Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemmings, it doesn’t prove that he didn’t consider Afro-Americans to have been “created equal”. For Jefferson to have married his slave…
Eastern Christians have a devotional practice known as an icon corner. The corner of a room is turned into a home altar so that the family might always have somewhere to pray, and somewhere to remind them of God. In many Aussie homes today, that space is set aside for a rather different supreme power…
The cult of the colossal means kowtowing before the merely “big” — which is thus adequately legitimised as the better and more valuable. It means contempt for what is outwardly small but inwardly great; it is the cult of power and unity, the predilection for the superlative in all spheres of cultural life, yes, even…
