New Oxford Notes: July-August 2013
The French Revolution, Part Deux
France is seeing its largest, most prolonged public demonstrations of the past several decades; millions are protesting same-sex marriage and adoption.
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States expend considerable effort rewriting statutes using "gender-neutral vocabulary" and manipulating our language in the service of a broad sociopolitical agenda.
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If someone were to bring the outspoken honesty of Jesus to an American parish, he would probably be branded a fanatic with sociopathic tendencies.
He had a great love for women and was neither a feminist nor a misogynist. For him, a woman is good as a woman, not just when she tries to impersonate a man.
Atheism is a recent and distinctively Western phenomenon; no other culture has manifested such a widespread public rejection of the divine.