One thing that reinforces my belief in a God who created the universe is the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles, which is the subject of the branch of science known as quantum mechanics. Understanding completely how and why everything works at the quantum level is something that I think that only God might be truly capable of.
In a way, being a pro-life politician is pretty cheap, and I say that as a pro-lifer myself. Since any laws passed to limit abortion are just about certain to be overturned in a court, using Roe v. Wade as precedent, pro-life politicians never truly have a chance to put their money where their mouth is. Only if Roe is overturned, which would result, not in making abortion illegal, but in reinstating all of the state laws on abortion, will legislators actually have a chance to abolish or modify them.
Apparently, in order to "love", you now must support the efforts of a small group of deviantly-behaving people to redefine a millenia-old institution and use government power to coercively impose that redefinition on society.
Let me say something that will have liberals howling in anger. The left seems to be constantly saying that wages need to be higher, and that businesses should be less concerned about profits, thus implying that wages are good and profits are bad. However, I believe that these two things are very similar. Just as wages (and salaries) are a reward to workers for a job well done, profits are a reward to businesses for a job well done. And let's not forget that in order to pay more workers higher wages, a business must make a profit in the first place.
If we're supposed to judge people by character and not color, it doesn't just mean that we must avoid racial profiling or making negative assumptions about people because of their skin color. It also means that no one should get a free pass because of skin color.
Technically speaking, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis did not violate any law. In reality, she defied a court ruling. But I'm sure, of course, that to many people, this distinction is insignificant.
It seems that some people are more bothered by the fact that Americans are generally allowed to own guns than they are by the chance of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
If someone were to carry any type of device resembling 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's "clock" within a block of the White House, he would find himself surrounded by about six Secret Service agents - no matter the color of his skin.
In 1974, Hillary Rodham, who later married Bill Clinton, was fired from the House committee that was investigating Watergate. I wonder if now, over 40 years later, she still remembers what it was like to be held accountable and punished for her own misbehavior.
Now that Pope Francis, in a speech given in the White House Rose Garden, has said that climate change cannot be passed off onto the next generation, I dare him to visit China and say the same thing without gagging on their air pollution. In his speech to Congress, the Pope said the United States should "embrace immigrants". I would point out the U.S. has a foreign-born population of over 10%, which means that we've already done more than our share of embacing immigrants.
Donald Trump seems to be concerned about the harm inflicted upon Americans by illegal immigrants, which may be one reason for his popularity. Perhaps it is refreshing to find a presidential candidate who puts Americans over people who shouldn't be in America. By contrast, it seems that at least some of his rivals in both parties favor amnesty for those who shouldn't be here.
To the migrants who don't like the cold weather in Sweden and Finland, I have just one thing to say: If you wanted warm weather, you should have gone in the opposite direction. Northern Europe is supposed to be cold.
Some people think that refugees travel to the United States or other western countries because we intervened in the countries they come from. If that sort of thing is true, when do Syrian refugees start migrating to Russia?
Over the last few election cycles, the left seems to have developed a double standard regarding the military service records of presidential candidates. During the 2004 election, when the Democrats nominated Vietnam war veteran John Kerry, they faulted the incumbent President Bush for having only served in the National Guard, thus avoiding combat duty. In 2008, when the Republicans nominated John McCain, who had been shot down over North Vietnam and spent almost six years as a POW, thus spending a lot more time in Vietnam than John Kerry did, his war record still did not impress the left. It thus seems that for the Republican presidential nominee, there is no military record that the left would regard as legitimate. On the other hand, Vice President Al Gore had served in a non-combat role as a journalist, while Presidents Clinton and Obama never served in the military at all, but all three were nominated by the Democratic party without any regard for each man's respective military record or lack thereof.
The Charlie Hebdo massacre was an act in which Muslims judged non-Muslims according to Islamic tradition. If Christians shouldn't impose their beliefs on people with different beliefs, then would it not be reasonable to ask the same of Muslims? Similarly, if people of the West should not judge others according to our culture, then perhaps non-westerners shouldn't judge us by theirs.
I wonder how many people think that the moon landings were faked, and also think that evidence of life has been found on Mars.
I recently came up with my own "Chuck Norris fact". The expansion of the universe is not due to the Big Bang. Everything is just trying to get away from Chuck Norris.
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