"The woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." A. Nonnie Mouse.
"The struggle for the soul of America is now between an atheism (with the exclusively secular goals of power and pleasure) and belief in an absolute moral authority (an authority acknowledged to be God)." S. M. Hutchens "Swimming with Sharks" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"No knowledgeable Christian can now be a Democrat any more than he could be a Nazi or a Communist, for all these are necessarily atheistic propositions." S. M. Hutchens "Swimming with Sharks" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"This is a complete and satisfactory explanation for the lying, rule-breaking, and shamelessness: those who are doing it do not believe in God." S. M. Hutchens "Swimming with Sharks" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"While the 'liberal democracies' of Germany, Sweden, and Norway have recentlycriminalized home schooling, jailing offending parents and seizing their children, 'authoritarian' Russia has legalized the practice as a recognition of natural parental rights." Allan C. Carlson "The Ironic Curtain" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"Education is not something one can program into a child as if he were a cyborg. Education is a lived experience, an experience of being led out of ignorance into the fully articulated and distinct calling of one's personality." Patrick B. Whalen "Cyborgs in Hell?" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"We need schools that place the young in contact with reality, schools that provide occasions for wonder, and schools that teach the young to be attentive to what is greater than themselves." Patrick B. Whalen "Cyborgs in Hell?" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
"In our time, Christians attract the hatred of everyone because they are not wholly given over to unreality." Anthony Esolen "Right Before Our Eyes" in Touchstone, July/August 2018.
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