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The controversy over a Super Bowl ad for a snack chip that allegedly "humanized," of all things, a pre-born human being highlights the deliberate rejection of reality of the "abortion rights" objectors. On its face, as others have noted, the controversy exposes the pernicious obfuscation that a fetus is nothing more than a "meaningless blob of protoplasm." Yet, the anti-reality inherent in pro-abortion propaganda is only one example exposing the delusional foundations of modern secular culture, most prominently manifested in its ideology of sexuality, including the normalization of all manner of sexual deviance, same-sex "marriage," gender-fluidity, human-robot "intimacy," and...

The modernist French literary figure Charles Baudelaire coined the maxim that "the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he does not exist." I respectfully disagree.The aphorism appears in a short story entitled “The Generous Gambler,” told in the first person, in which the storyteller reflects upon a pleasant evening he spent with the father of lies over a game of chance in which he lost his soul. In the course of amiable conversation, the devil confides in his guest "that he had only been afraid for his power once," when a preacher proclaimed, "never forget ... that...