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The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 63): Margaret Mead and Alfred Kinsey–Sex is on the Menu

Posted on April 21, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 7 Comments

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 m...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 62): Sigmund Freud, and His Scientific Claims that Religion is an Illusion

Posted on April 21, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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...

Western Culture/Worldview

The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 61): Adolf Hitler and National Socialism

Posted on April 20, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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 Leni...

Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 60): Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, Birth Control, and Abortion

Posted on April 19, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

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 ...

Western Culture/Worldview

The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 59): Vladimir Lenin, the USSR, and the Rise of Communism

Posted on April 17, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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 ...

Western Culture/Worldview

The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 58): Introduction to the 20th Century

Posted on April 14, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

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...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

The Benedict Option–Book Review (Part 5): Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby…

Posted on April 13, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 3 Comments

Let me state up front: I don’t particularly like this post. I don’t think a single post on this topic will ever be adequate. In this final post of my review/ana...

Book Review/Western Culture/Worldview

The Benedict Option: Book Review (Part 4)–Christian Politics and Christian Education…Hey Conservative Christians, it’s Time to Re-assess a Few Things

Posted on April 11, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 2 Comments

How should Christians today navigate the current cultural landscape? That’s really the fundamental question Rod Dreher addresses in his book, The Benedict Optio...

Book Review/Social and Cultural Issues/Western Culture/Worldview

The Benedict Option Book Review (Part 3): Secularism and the Gay Marriage/LGBTQ Debate

Posted on April 10, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 1 Comment

The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has certainly garnered a lot of attention over the past month. As I mentioned in Part 1 of my overview of Dreher’s book, it ha...

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The Benedict Option (Part 2): What Other Option Do I Have, Other Than to at Least Provide an Overview?

Posted on April 6, 2017 by joelando11@yahoo.com / 0 Comment

Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, has garnered quite a lot of attention over the past month. According to many progressives, it is alarmist tripe that is ...

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