This morning, prompted by this article, Weird Dave asks this: Question: Can/should the 1st Amendment be re-written to exclude religions like Islam? The problem isn’t as stiff as one might think, because it isn’t really “to exclude religions like Islam.” It’s to define religion in a fashion that includes only creeds that …
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Feb 23 2025
Fr. Dan Reehil
If you have not had a chance to see the various interviews with Father Dan Reehil, please take some time and do so. The interview with Sean Ryan is two and a half hours of theological reality laid bare. Sean Ryan Fr Dan Reehil interview God exists. And Satan also exists. But people today celebrate …
Feb 12 2025
Deciding To Believe
I distinguish belief from knowledge by the criterion of personal, objective verification. That is: if I verify a statement with my own senses, it then constitutes an item of knowledge. If I haven’t done so, it’s an item of belief. If we use that criterion, then for most of us the amount we know …
Jan 30 2025
Government money spigot turned off, “Christian” charities hardest hit
The government has frozen all funds going to the NGOs that are facilitating the illegal invasion of the USA. See how simple that was? Who’s bringing in the illegals? Those guys? And they’re using our money? Yeah, let’s stop doing that. Also, the weeping and wailing from the Left about “Christian” charities getting their funding …
Dec 18 2024
Worth your time
I’ve seen clips of Shawn Ryan’s show for a while now, but this is the first time I’ve ever stopped what I was doing and sat through an entire episode. Fr. Dan Reehil is an exorcist here in the United States, and listening to him describe his job is like having Einstein explain math to …
May 15 2024
Tolerable Diversity, Mandatory Unity
That shibboleth word “diversity” just might have had its day. The myriad examples of what happens when a government attempts to compel “diversity” upon an institution or a society make it fairly plain that the notion is toxic. Resistance to such compulsion is mounting and will soon become insuperable. It’s been the case …
Oct 15 2023
The Chronicle of The DC, 15Oct23: Shameless, Merciless, Godless
The story below is bad enough. That it occurred in a Jewish state that has become as secularized as any ostensibly Christian one is what prompted my choice of title. Israeli boy featured in COVID vaccine campaign dies of heart attack at age 8 The Death Cultists are shameless, merciless and Godless with clear consciences …
Oct 15 2023
Marital Matters
This might become an occasional feature at Liberty’s Torch. There are few things that interest me more than the pressures on marriage and families today. The rise of militant feminism has exacerbated the natural tensions that will always exist between men and women. Yea verily, even when he’s an actual man and she’s an …
Feb 22 2023
Freedom Of What?
I have a great admiration for the Founders of this nation. Many of them thought more deeply about political processes, especially the innate dynamic of governments to grow over time, than anyone who’s come since them. This morning I find myself reflecting on the wisdom of one in particular: the celebrated yet underappreciated Alexander …
Jun 28 2022
Evidence, Inference, and Faith
What statement is aimed at you more often than any other? For me, it’s “You must be crazy.” or some variation thereof. And more often than not, the stimulus is my religious beliefs. The person casting the aspersions on my sanity deems them “irrational,” the great majority of those who hold them as …
Jan 03 2022
Threatening Or Heartening?
I’m in the habit of sending out “Happy New Year” notes to my friends, cordial acquaintances, and other regular correspondents. Those who reply usually just echo the wish, perhaps with a few words of personal news attached. However, this year one friend, whom I’ll call Smith, included in his response that he’d decided to …
Sep 19 2021
Premises
It has been said – I know this for an incontrovertible fact, as I’m the one who said it – that an argument founded on a false premise, no matter how perfectly and seamlessly logical, is worthless. This applies to arguments about any and every subject under the Sun. If your premises are wrong, …
Jun 29 2021
An Inherently Un-Titleable Piece
Full Disclosure: There are people who think I’m crazy. They’re not a majority…yet. But I would be remiss were I not to mention their existence. “But why?” I hear you ask. Well, mostly because I’m a libertarian-conservative Catholic patriot, with emphasis on Catholic. “How,” they ask, “could anyone so devoted to freedom simultaneously embrace …
May 10 2021
Good Intentions, Bad Methods
I can’t say of my own knowledge that most Americans are annoyed by religious solicitors, but I know many people who are – including myself. Just this morning I received the attention of one such in a fashion that was new to me: a cold telephone call. The phone’s display said “Private caller,” …
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