The facts have not been verified, but Vance Luther Boelter may be a religious extremist. Extremism can be an individual mental problem, but it can also be a cultural problem that some individuals can be very susceptible to. I read the early reports on him, and he seems to be a complex bundle of contradictions….
Category: Religion
The Sins of His Father
To prove Christians, particularly Catholics, are creatures of the New Testament, the new Pope has proven to be exempt from some of the important constraints of the Old Testament. Numbers 14:18 says: “The Lord is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of…
Making America Stupid Again
There can no longer be any doubt. The Trump Administration is hellbent on destroying American higher education. Trump is attacking higher education, as Mussolini did in 1931, Mao in 1968, and Viktor Orban in 2019. All dictators want to neuter and control the intellectual gold mines of their societies. This impulse is fueled by the…
Triumph of Christian Nationalism
This is an updated article from March 2025. Who are America’s Christian Nationalists, and why are they merging angry, gutter politics with matters of the divine? As a prelude to my inquiry, I found a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “An eye for an eye will only make the world blind.” A faithful Christian following the…