Soviet Democracy…I Mean Socialist Democracy…I Mean Democratic Socialism (Part 2)
Back during the 2020 presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders was asked for his reaction to Donald Trump calling him a Communist. He replied by saying he was Demo...
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Soviet Democracy: Straight from the Politburo’s Mouth (and how the description is eerily similar to “Democratic Socialism”)
Twenty-eight years ago, in 1993, I was in the first Peace Corps group to go into Kazakhstan, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union h...
A Book Analysis of “Jesus and John Wayne” (Part 2)–Chapters 1-2: Fundies, Billy Graham, Communism, and the Southern Strategy
Beginning here in Part 2 of my analysis of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne, I want to do two things in every succeeding post of this series. F...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 59): Vladimir Lenin, the USSR, and the Rise of Communism
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 ...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 52): Charles Darwin and The Descent of Man–Yes, Racism and Eugenics are Really Bad
If my previous two posts about Charles Darwin has come across as a validation of Darwin’s theory of evolution, it should, at least partly. The point I wanted to...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 49): Karl Marx, Dialectical Materialism, and the Philosophical Framework for Atrocities
Possibly the most influential and infamous thinker of the 19th century was Karl Marx (1818-1883). Now it must be said off the bat that you can’t really understa...
Richard Dawkins and “The God Delusion”: This is the End! (Cut Out My Appendix Already!)(Part 22)
Richard Dawkins opened his book, The God Delusion, with a creative reinterpretation of John Lennon’s famous song, Imagine. Essentially, Dawkins pined, “Just ima...
Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion”: Religious Faith is a Form of Child Abuse? (Part 21)
Throughout The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that not only is religious faith a delusion, but that it is downright horrific, and a danger to the civilize...