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What caused the Hugh Hefner, born into a conservative Methodist family, to start a porn empire? What led Jews like Betty Friedan, Larry Lader, and Bernard Nathanson to promote abortion even though they knew of the horrors of the Holocaust? Why do Catholics like George Wiegel and Erik Prince reject Church teaching and support war? […]
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Video based on the article with sources found here: https://eclecticanecdotes.locals.com/post/5233087/the-hypocrisy-of-ben-shapiro-on-radical-muslims
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Ephrem (306-379) “Mary and Eve, two people without guilt, two simple people, wereidentical. Later, however, one became the cause of our death, theother the cause of our life.” “Thou and thy mother are the only ones who are totally beautiful in every respect; for in thee, O Lord, there is no spot, and in thy […]
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Regarding Ephesians 5:22 (Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord), Christopher West has written: If it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, I want to affirm your response. Why? Because you probably think the passage means something like: “Wives are doormats who must surrender to their husbands’ […]
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Video based on the article: https://eclecticanecdotes.com/2023/01/the-date-of-the-birth-of-jesus
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Video version of the article here: https://eclecticanecdotes.com/2022/05/jesuit-reductions
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“The social question is the center of all contemporary endeavors. But we consider Jewish business practices to be the real core of the social question.” So Georg Ratzinger begins his book Jewish Business Practices. An indictment of immoral business activities practiced by Jews, Ratzinger, the great-uncle of Pope Benedict XVI, gets to the core of the […]
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Video based on the article.
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Tim O’Neill, the owner of the website History for Atheists, provides a useful summary disproving the claim that the European Wars of Religion were primarily driven by religion, when in fact there were multiple factors that contributed to the conflict. Below are his comments on the subject: To begin with, if the Reformation was supposed […]
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John Oswalt the key of the house of David may have been a literal key of considerable size slung from the shoulder (so Skinner). But equally likely the reference here is symbolic. The authority to admit people to or exclude them from the king’s presence is vested in, or put on the shoulder of (9:5 […]
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