Category: Secularism
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Trotsky’s (Misplaced) Faith in Man
On 20 August 1940, 84 years ago today, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico City where an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day. Yet another proof of how the Left eats its own. The last days of Lev…
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Trotsky’s Faith in Man
On this date in 1940, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Trotsky in exile in Mexico City when an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day. The Left eats its own. Read the rest. The tragedy of Trotsky is that of a man of great…
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Trotsky’s Faith in Man
On this date in 1940, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Trotsky in exile in Mexico City when an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day. The Left eats its own. …………………………………………. The last days of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, prime…
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Secular Arguments Against Abortion
A question rarely asked is the one I raise in this post: Is the abortion question tied to religion in such a way that opposition to abortion can be based only on religious premises? Or are there good reasons to oppose abortion that are nor religiously based, reasons that secularists could accept? The answer to the last…
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The Lapse of Laïcité: Cause and Effect
Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn’t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith to the fantastic world of human irreality that the Marxists called “superstructure”… thus, precisely through their failure…
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If politics is their religion . . .
. . . then it is perhaps understandable that leftists should lose their minds over the ascendancy of Trump. I pity the poor secularist who has nothing beyond this world.
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The Lapse of Laïcité: Cause and Effect
Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn’t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith to the fantastic world of human irreality that the Marxists called “superstructure”… thus, precisely through their failure…