The French Revolution offers a telling contrast to our own. It was anti-theist and atheist, founded on reason and the new sciences. You tell me, why did it turn into a horrific bloodbath; a reign of terror? Why has every other atheist and anti-theist revolution done the same? More people have died in these modern revolutions - particularly in the 20th Century - than have died in all other religious wars in recorded history.

If the universe operates on Darwinian principles of randomness, then such things as honor, love, honesty, sacredness, holiness, and self-sacrifice become merely anachronistic relics of a childish past.

Knowledge of a Creator who has a plan and is monitoring human events changes our lives. It is a bulwark, a lighthouse built on rock in an ocean of chaos.

It's not a simple equation, but in a world gone mad, where our long-established standards of justice, civil discourse and behavior, love, and respect for life are all noticeably spiraling down the toilet bowl....yes.I believe we're at this point because around 1900, so-called "civilized" people decided Nietzsche was right and "God is dead". They became infatuated with science and reason, turning away from faith and spirit. World Wat I was the result, and Armageddon began.

See Mark Steyn's latest book After America; Get Ready for Armageddon.  Or Laura Ingraham's Of Thee I Zing. They make the case better than I can.

Atheism and its evil twin, anti-theism, create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. Something will come in to fill the vacuum, and it's damnable ugly.

What an excellent idea. I'm looking forward to reading the wit and wisdom of our best and brightest newer generation.

I knew it! Democrats never make mistakes, are always competent, and their motives are as pure as the driven snow.

He's not good, or there would be all kinds of video of him gracefully driving and elegantly putting. Fact is though, most golfers aren't good at all. It's a very hard game and few are girted with the ability to learn it, no matter how many hours they spend at it. I speak from personal experience.

At least when he's at the course he's not screwing up the nation further. So we got that going for us.

Everyone of gravitas in the financial world - and Larry Kudlow is one of them - now knows that Helicopter Ben Bernanke has failed with his QE1 and QE2 money creation programs to bring us prosperity. Obama's policies have had their intended effect: Ruining free enterprise in the U.S. and metastasizing cancerous government tyranny using idiotic laws, regulations, and delay.

Nobody can stand against the Federal Democrat Machine, an insane Senate, and a sleepwalking electorate that won't vigorously protest.

It's the truth that cannot be uttered in the Regime Media. Yes, Perry was intemperate, but he was trying to wake people up to the dangers.

I'm an Episcopalian now. The leadership at the highest levels is moribund and corrupt, but my local priests are not, and I like the congregation.

Excellent question, and the answer is implied in it. Bravo. We Protestants have to take the lion's share of the blame. We allowed evil to fulminate by not maintaining faith in God and teaching our children the difference between right and wrong.

In the end, though, it's destiny. The Book of Revelation spells it out unmistakably.

When you look at the Catholic countries such as Mexico, Central and South America, and Spain, you must acknowledge that the church hasn't been a force for socioeconomic development. That's the key.  Nation plus dominant religion equals.... what?

Japan is a basket case waiting to implode. Their demographics are set on auto destruct. Women refuse to marry and have babies because they're treated so badly by their husbands. Japan never recovered from the meltdown of the early '90's, and citizen trust in government has bottomed out after the recent earthquake and nuclear meltdown.

Semantics and the archaic understanding of words will forever frustrate Scriptural interpretation. Dogma means "indisputable opinion". Any Scripture dating from 2,000 years ago is going to be subject to dispute. One can either be realistic about it or rigid and uncritical.

I spent nearly a year in mandatory training, taking classes. to become formally Catholic and join a Franciscan church in 1993 along with my wife. We found it to be insufferably and maddeningly rigid. For example, we took classes for three months at another Catholic church and decided to switch to the Franciscans; and they wouldn't accept or give us credit for what we'd already studied. They made us start again.

Catholics encourage the rhythm method of birth control, but forbid condoms. Please explain.

Catholics must believe that the Pope is God's representative on earth, infallible. How can anyone believe that today?

The joke's on you, America! The emperor always was naked. Does anyone get the feeling the Obama spell is broken?

Someday historians will look back on this era, and this administration, and the people who support them, and will say they were all barking mad. Only a perverse insanity can explain the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of blunders; and the stark incompetence and ineptitude of this 'leader' and his minions.

No, it's not a tyranny of incompetence. It's deliberate, malicious, and malignant madness.

Excellent idea. It cuts through the crap, and that's what they're slinging now - pure bull**ap.

This is a test for our fellow citizens. The question is, are they worthy to have a representative government which requires attention from its citizens? Or have they become so addled and infantile that they need parental tyranny?

We have to refine our understanding of "corruption". It's a modern invention of the West, the idea that one shouldn't have to bribe officials and curry favor from the insolent who hold office. It's part and parcel of our idea of God-given human rights; a very fragile concept, in grave peril today.