David Barton, Historians, or Truth?

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Dear Nameless, It would appear there has been a distraction added to the ongoing argument of the Christian origins of institutional, moral, political and social America. I have not desired at any time, nor have I ever intended – much less felt the need – to mount an apologetic for David ...

Sincere Skeptic: My Problem with Calling a Country “Christian”

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

On June 14th, the Sincere Skeptic Wrote... "I think bureaucratic forms are inevitably inflexible and inappropriate to emergency situations. Their impersonal nature is at base incompatible with a christian commitment to love in my view. The question of scale in governance is one that we in the West are yet ...

Early Christian America: The Sincere Skeptic and Monopolistic Capitalism is Socialism

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Christian America and Socialism The claim to a distinctly Christian America should not be romanticized. Our country, despite the opposition to socialism found in the Bible, has always cast a wandering eye to the seductive influence of socialistic ideals. It should help if we understand "Socialism" as "Monopolistic capitalism". It has nothing ...

Early Christian America: A Reply to the “Sincere Skeptic” IV

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The Sincere Skeptic wrote:  As to the ‘efficiency’ of capitalism, a separate question to its morality, we could calculate the amount of gold extracted from South America it’s value now and see if the West could afford to buy it. A famous example is if the Native Americans had invested ...

Christian America? A Reply to the “Sincere Skeptic” Part III

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

The previous inquiry addresses the "mixed" nature of Christianity as a cultural phenomenon in early "Christian America". The issues raised in that brief article were numerous and... I believe crucial to a proper understanding of the "cultural impact" of Christianity. Here is the second citation from the article to which ...

Response to the Issue: What Constitutes a “Christian Nation”?

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

It is necessary to take the first 2 points only from your post today (numbered below), to give a fair answer to the inquiry and, I trust, a measured response to your positions. But this  post here of several posts is, by its necessity, longer than the others to follow. ...