Response to “The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers” — Who Were They Hiding It From?
Jan 6, 2012 8 Comments ›› John EidsmoeChristian Pinto and Adullum Films have produced a DVD titled The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers in which they argue that America was not founded as a Christian nation. Rather, Pinto says, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were the products of Enlightenment thinking and the influence of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and other ...
Continue ReadingGopherwood, Anyone?
Dec 18, 2009 1 Comment ›› John EidsmoeAbraham Kuyper once said, "Culture is religion externalized." The Bible is God's Word, but Western Civilization has been permeated with Christian influence for nearly 2,000 years, and Biblical allusions and metaphors have become part of our language and our frame of reference. That is, until recently. The "Boomer" generation did not think it necessary ...
Continue ReadingMyth of the Muslim “Golden Age”
Jun 24, 2009 3 Comments ›› John EidsmoeIn his June 4, 2009 speech at Cairo University in Egypt, President Obama stated, "As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam -- at places like Al-Azhar University - that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. ...
Continue ReadingJudging by Law or Feelings?
Jun 11, 2009 1 Comment ›› John EidsmoeShould judges base their decisions on an impartial evaluation of the law as applied to the facts? Or should they judge based upon the criterion set forth by President Obama -- "empathy"? Do men and women, young and old, white and black, rich and poor, have different versions of law, truth, and justice? Even ...
Continue ReadingDefining religion down
Aug 1, 2008 No Comments ›› Greg JonesIn 1993, the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote an essay in which he argued that America had grown accustomed to alarming levels of crime because society was "defining deviancy down." By this Moynihan meant that sharp increases in violent crime had the effect of redefining what constitutes "deviant" behavior such that what was ...
Continue ReadingInvestigating inalienable rights
May 14, 2008 No Comments ›› Greg JonesForthcoming from the University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review is an article co-authored by Professor Craig Stern of Regent University School of Law and yours truly entitled The Coherence of Natural Inalienable Rights. The article is available for download from the Social Science Research Network website (SSRN). The article explores the prerequisites for a ...
Continue ReadingPledging to the God of the Declaration of Independence
Dec 18, 2007 2 Comments ›› Greg JonesMy last post reported in general on the arguments recently made before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning Michael Newdow's constitutional challenges to "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and to the national motto "In God We Trust." At the end of that post I hinted that the most fascinating argument advanced in that ...
Continue ReadingThe Foundation hears a different tune
Oct 19, 2007 No Comments ›› Greg JonesHere at the Foundation we are often asked about how we are different from other non-profit Christian legal outfits like the ACLJ, the Alliance Defense Fund, Liberty Counsel, the Rutherford Institute, and so on. It is an important question, one which we answer by explaining that the Foundation makes legal arguments based on the original ...
Continue ReadingThe Rule of Romney
Mar 7, 2007 1 Comment ›› Greg JonesA common political tactic is to defend oneself by attacking others. While this deflection of criticism without truly answering it may be politically expedient, whether it is honest or a proper Christian response is another matter. For example, a blog post penned by the Alliance Defense Fund’s David French in defense of presidential candidate Mitt ...
Continue ReadingJudge Moore’s latest column: Principled Conservatism
Feb 7, 2007 No Comments ›› Greg JonesJudge Moore's latest column uses the occasion of the 96th birthday of the late Ronald Reagan as a jumping off point to discuss what it means to be a true conservative. Many of the Republican Presidential candidates are claiming to be conservative but some of them miss the mark because they ignore or believe the ...
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