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Yitschak Ben Gad: "Politics, lies, and videotape: 3,000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis," SP Books, 1991, 479 pp.p. 245 Q: What is known about the massacre of 1860? A: In 1860, the Lebanese Druze attacked the Christian Maronites. Thousands of men, women and children were murdered. The Christians sent forth a desperate plea for help to the European powers in order to save them from complete annihilation... Q: Who came to the aid of the Christians? A: Sir Moses Montefiore, the well-known British Jewish leader, astonished by the disaster that befell the Lebanese Christians, did his utmost to...

I oppose Islamofascism because First Things Next Filed under: Feature, Independent Liberal — Deafening Silence on January 23, 2008 @ 12:55 am CET This post first appeared in January, 2007. As Martin Luther King Day approached once more, I decided to re-post it. Mr. van der Galien was kind enough to let me post here, as well.I should apologize. I have not made myself clear.This blog was a gift from a dear friend and in my eagerness to master basic blogging skills such as editing posts and linking- all very new things to me- I neglected to stop and properly...

t’s shocking, but effective. That’s how the youth minister of an area church describes the dramatic production depicting decisions made by three teenagers and the consequences each of them must face as they are led on the path to their final destination of heaven or hell. For months more than 250 members of First Baptist Church of Haughton have prepared for the walk through production Judgement House. “We have anywhere from 250 to 300 members who have been volunteering their time,” Scott Sullivan, the church’s youth minister, said. “There will be Bossier City police, EMS workers and sheriff’s deputies there...

The Church and its people are in crisis, according to the Archbishop of Westminster EUROPE is filled with angst and the Catholic Church is in crisis, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, said last night. In a lecture at Westminster Cathedral, the spiritual leader of more than four million Catholics in England and Wales said that the Church in Europe, in particular Britain, was in a time of crisis and of “dying and rising”. He described the modern European as a person of angst, in spite of, or perhaps because of, the many liberties enjoyed in contemporary Western culture....

Great literature thrives on paradox. William Blake invited us to see the world in a grain of sand. Milton wrote Paradise Lost to justify the ways of God to Man, but his hero is Lucifer. In T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets we are reminded that “what we call the beginning is often the end”. Some of the most profound paradoxes to test the mind of Man are at the heart of what has become known as the greatest story ever told — the story of Christmas. God chooses as the mother of the Messiah a woman neither high-born, wealthy or...

For those of you in the “vast right wing conspiracy” who seem to believe that the liberal establishment in America bears some resemblance to the muslim fascist terrorists, let me point out just a few differences between the training of young people in America's public schools and the Saudi Madrasas where muslim fascism is part and parcel of the school agenda. Subject: America Liberal Madrasas (formerly referred to as the American Public School System): America is the root of all evil in the world today. Saudi Madrasas: America is the root of all evil in the world today. Subject: 9/11...