The Myth of the “Thomas Jefferson Bible”

In a recent post about less-than-honest college professors, I suggested that it’s a good idea to read Dr. Joseph Ellis’ writings on Thomas Jefferson with a skeptical eye, if you are going to read them at all. It’s been proven that Joseph Ellis is a shameless liar; he spent years telling his students made up stories about his experiences in combat in the Vietnam jungles, when in fact he never served in Vietnam, nor incombat, at all.

Someone quickly posted a question about the so-called “Thomas Jefferson Bible,” and the question is a good one. Continue reading »

Whittaker Chambers on Atheism and Communism

This Easter weekend might be a good time to share some of Whittaker Chambers’ insights on the central role of atheism in the Communist Party.

Conservative Republican Jews

Posted on March 12, 2012 in Daily Blog, Religion and Politics with No Comments.

I got some intesting e-mail in response to last Wednesday’s column, in which I asked the semantic question “What is a ‘Jew’?”

A couple people have asked me if I can find any hard data to back up my idea that religiously observant Jews might be more conservative in their voting than ethnically Jewish atheists.
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Left Wing Religion – Government is God

Posted on March 10, 2012 in Daily Blog, Religion and Politics with No Comments.

John Hawkins published an interesting column this week about the hostility to Christianity that many left wingers harbor. Hawkins didn’t mention liberal hostility to Judaism in his column, but he could have. There is plenty of evidence that people on the left view both Old and New Testament beliefs with contempt and anger.
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What is a “Jew”?

Posted on March 7, 2012 in Daily Blog, Religion and Politics with No Comments.

There was an interesting story in the news Wednesday. The group American Atheists tried to put up a billboard in a Hasidic Jewish neighborhood in New York, and the owner of the building where the billboard was to be posted denied workers access to the building.

The article mentions that the president of American Atheists is a man named Dave Silverman, and describes him as having been “raised in the Jewish faith.” Interestingly, the MSNBC reporter who wrote the story was not willing to describe Silverman as ethnically Jewish, despite his obviously Jewish surname and his own account of his childhood.

So is the word “Jew” strictly a religious designation?