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When we use our reason to try to understand something, we are assuming, from the outset, that the thing we are investigating can be understood by reason because it is reasonable and that it will reveal itself in a rational way, that behind the mystery of the thing, there is order and governance that can be discerned.
Source: Word on Fire Institute via YouTube Father Steve Grunow, CEO of Word on Fire, speaks to Jesuits about the perils of artificial intelligence and the online world. Learn more about the Word on Fire Institute: https://wordonfire.institute/SHOW LESS Header image: Man on phone by Vinicisu Amnx Amano via unsplash.com; Gargoyle…
In this video Jonathan Pageau discusses Rod Dreher’s new book ‘Live Not By Lies’, a manual for Christian Dissidents. “As a new cultural revolution aims to institutionalize a tyranny of ideological clichés, Dreher renews Solzhenitsyn’s great call to ‘live not by lies.’ I cannot imagine a more timely and urgent book, or one with a more enduring spiritual, political, and cultural message.”
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube A hit Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” is a film about the dark side of social media explained by the Silicon Valley innovators behind it. In this episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Bishop Barron discusses some of the film’s insights and offers…
There are few topics that hit emotional buttons as vaccinations. The internet is awash with pro-vaccines vs anti-vaccines arguments. And if you add in the whole CCP Virus as a background, you have a perfect storm of controversy.
The Great Reset is all the rage. Because we identify reset with a computer upgrade, it’s sold to us as something good. If a reset is good a great reset must be great. Right? The phrase comes from the founder and CEO of the World Economic Forum, (Schwab) Klaus Schwab. Mr. Schwab and his fellow oligarchs have been trying to gain some traction with this great reset saying for years without much traction. In fact, in a short propaganda video, the World Economic Forum predicts a world where, “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” and that everyone will rent everything they need.
Journalist Suzanne Moore says she was “betrayed and bullied for saying that women should not be silenced”, quitting her long-time job at The Guardian newspaperafter writing an article in March this year reiterating her view that “women are women”, that sex is a biological fact…
Pfizer has announced a new COVID-19 vaccine with 90% efficiency – but were fetal cell lines involved? Joseph Meaney, Ph.D., president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, answers our questions.
Source: TheRemnantVideo via YouTube In this Sunday Sermon of So. Saint Paul, Father speaks of the coming end of the liturgical year and the Novus Ordo liturgists’ decision to move the Feast of the Kingship of Christ. Father says we all should be “Catholic globalists” in a “one-world religion”. But…
Source: Michael Egnor via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission. I got involved in the intelligent design movement before I became a Christian, although the insight that ID offered became important in my conversion. I had been an atheist, or at least an agnostic. I took a Randian (as in Ayn Rand) perspective…
Source: Personhood Alliance via personhood.orgReprinted with permission. The most current information on unethical and ethical COVID-19 vaccine candidates can be found here. The Personhood Alliance’s official position on vaccine ethics is a culmination of 2 months of committee work, which included affiliate representatives from eight states, both Catholic and evangelical, and…
Source: Discovery Institute via discovery.orgReprinted with permission. KERI D. INGRAHAM SEPTEMBER 28, 2020 EDUCATION REFORM, TEACHING Little progress has been made in closing the achievement gap despite endless initiatives among school districts across the country. The achievement gap refers to the statistically significant difference between average test score data among students from differing…