Category: Christianity

The rash

.   Dear editor: After reading the rash of liberal letters recently that sympathized with the Muslims so much (while mocking the rest of us for being fearful of the Islamic jihadist terrorists), perhaps many of you might be much happier if you left America permanently and moved over to some Muslim country! You might …

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An embarrassing reflection of us

  By Jacques, d’Nalgar, December 13 2015   Why all the sanctimonious hand-wringing over Donald Trump’s latest bombastics?  Are we really that shocked when this unfiltered braggart harrumphs that the world’s Muslims must not be allowed to sully our exceptional, Christian America? After all, isn’t that what most of us really want?  Sure, we may …

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Sound familiar?

The Christian Terror of Saint Augustine By Michael J. Brenner, December 11, 2015   At one time, Christians performed deeds little different from those of ISIS today – amazingly with the explicit blessing of Augustine of Hippo, a Catholic saint and an influential leader of the Church in Roman North Africa. There is a benefit …

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In the grip of a particular hysteria

The Libel Equating Islam With Terror By Michael J. Brenner, December 9, 2015   Americans are in the grip of a particular hysteria – once again. First it arrived in the panic provoked by the atrocity of 9/11. The symptoms of that Post-Traumatic Shock are still with us. Now it returns in the panic in …

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I know for a fact

      Dear editor: I would like to comment on Donald Trump saying many Muslims in New Jersey were celebrating when the twin towers fell. The media was all over him for voicing this. I know for a fact that he is stating the truth, for the same was going on in Southfield, Mich. …

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Somebody please tell me I’m wrong…

During our long, rainy drive home after Thanksgiving, my wife and I got bored and started channel-hopping on the radio.  We stopped for a while on the “Patriot” channel, long enough to catch up with what’s going on in the paranoid, squishy fringes of Der Homeland’s right-wing. Or what we call the mainstream of the …

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Original sin

The Politics of Thanksgiving Day By William Loren Katz, November 26, 2014   With family excitement building with the approach of Thanksgiving, you would never know November was Native American History Month. We would do well to recognize Native American resistance to colonialism on Thanksgiving instead of the myths about Native American dinner with Pilgrims. …

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