In the past few Worldview posts, we have taken a look at some of the most influential people and events in the first part of the 20th century: Vladimir Lenin, Margaret Sanger, Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, and Alfred Kinsey. Lenin and Hitler, and their atrocious regimes, were so inhumane that it can explain…
For the past two years, I have written quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate, and perhaps two of the main points I have emphasized time and time again have been (1) the young earth creationism (YECism) of Ken Ham is neither scientific nor biblical, and has never been considered a fundamental tenet of the…
Two weeks ago, I happened to see that someone had posted an article that Hank Hanegraaff, “The Bible Answer Man,” had officially joined the Orthodox Church on Palm Sunday. Now, I remember hearing his show on the radio occasionally back in the early 90s, but I never listened much more than a few minutes—it just…
In this post, I focus on two people from the first half of the 20th century who have had a rather profound effect on modern attitudes toward sex, although you might not realize it: Margaret Mead and Alfred Kinsey. Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) As the 1920’s moved along, the hits just…
Within a short span of ten years, not only did Lenin, Sanger, and Hitler all write their seminal works, but Sigmund Freud also contributed what was to be one of his most influential works, The Future of an Illusion. (It is interesting to note that the young Adolph Hitler grew up in Vienna, the very…
One year after Vladimir Lenin died, and three years after Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization, Adolph Hitler wrote Mein Kampf from a German prison. Like Lenin and Sanger, Hitler’s worldview was in large part shaped by the fallout of the Enlightenment. We must remember that despite the rhetoric of liberty and democracy during the…
Five years after Lenin wrote The State and Revolution, and two years before Joseph Stalin came to power after Lenin’s death, Margaret Sanger wrote The Pivot of Civilization. In it she made a full-fledged case for the implementation of eugenics on a national, if not global, scale. Now, I’ve discussed eugenics in an earlier post,…
It goes without saying: the first half of the 20th century witnessed the greatest atrocities in human history. And as horrific as WWI (1914-1919) was, it would pale in comparison to what was brewing in Russia in 1917. Half way through WWI, Czarist Russia found itself at a tipping point. Faced with a rising call…
I thought I’d share a few Easter poems I’ve written throughout the years. ***The first poem was in Colby, Kansas, in 1993. I was helping my sister move back to Illinois from Wyoming, and my truck continually was breaking down on the trip–we found ourselves stranded in Colby, Kansas over Easter. Easter Sunday While loved ones…
In his book, How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer said there is a “flow” to history and culture. What he meant, of course, is that what transpires in one era of any given society often is the fall-out of what had happened in the previous era. One of the fundamental things I hope that…