Category: Faith
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Happy Fat Tuesday Open Comments
1900 Mobile Alabama Poster Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn; it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday“, referring to it being the last day of consuming rich, fatty foods, most notably red meat, in…
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Thursday’s Goldman Moment Open Exchange
If I were as smart and could write as well as my intellectual hero, David P. Goldman, I would be a better and richer man. Like the Nazis, Islamist terrorism weaponized horror to demoralize the West. Christianity has a soft underbelly: It struggles to reconcile belief in a God who so loved the world…
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Thursday Revolution: Yanks vs Frogs Open Thread
The French Revolution began twelve years after the American Revolution. America wanted to be independent and left alone to enjoy their liberty and managed to run the British back to their homeland. The French went berserk and within 18 months they started murdering their own citizens. It was the onset of a seemingly never ending…