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Marx pointed out that communism could easily be presented as Christian and the mainstream churches are mostly Left-leaning. Even Papal encyclicals make some concessions to socialist thinking. See both “De rerum novarum” and “Centesimus annus”. In that context a recent report from Britain is not inherently surprising. The Guardian summarizes: People with faith are far […]
My father had what is called a ‘green thumb’, even in the most adverse situations he could make plants grow. He would occasionally play with flowers, but his real love was to put food on the table or in the freezer. I suspect that his success was due to the fact that he spent […]
Historical Fiction is a genre of writing that is historically difficult to pull off. Weaving fiction with fact takes great precision, it is a challenge not for the feint at heart. The facts are cast in stone, they cannot be changed. As if this were not difficult enough, author J. Arthur Moore decided to make […]
“Nature” magazine recently announced with great fanfare that if you ignored those pesky ice-core records from Antarctica, then the last deglaciation was PRECEDED by a CO2 rise — which is necessary if you are to claim that CO2 CAUSED the warming. The paper by Shakun is headed “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations […]
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