Mike is a husband and dad from Denton, Texas. His essays have appeared in the Federalist, Aleteia, the Libertarian Catholic, and FEE. He can be followed on Twitter @laffyjaphy.
As the friction over whether our country should remain in lockdown or open back up grates on, what is often overlooked is the battle of words taking place amid the fray. The complexities of the current pandemic are being reduced to a mantra-like phrases that drive the opposing camps further apart.
Like Marxism, Libertarianism falls into utopianism because it relies on an incomplete conception of human beings and doesn't account for community life.
Westerners today can learn the hard way what they're currently losing, or they can read Richard Storey's book and defend the great gift that has been left to them.
Christian persecution continues with little objection from the media. Instead of waiting for the world's sympathy, Christians will need to remain steadfast in their faith and patient in their suffering.
There is an important difference between the decline in religious practice and the decline in religious belief. Unfortunately, contemporary atheists are too religious to see it.
It's not that Americans have not become less moral in recent times. It's just their morality has changed, and will continue changing the more people drift away from traditional Christianity.
