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" Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world. "
Racism
Country
America
" All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth. "
Reading
Law
Life
" Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. "
Liberty
Must
Treasure
" Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. "
People
Society
Perfection
" American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. "
Globe
American
Peace
" America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value. "
American
Value
New
" As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. "
You
Wiser
Lazy
" But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice. "
Just
Ultimate
Justice
" Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. "
Complaining
Get
Unhappy
" Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. "
Rich
Evil
Good
" Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. "
Poverty
Racism
Corruption
" Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him. "
Brotherhood
Trust
America
" Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion. "
Fascism
Age
American
" Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. "
Write
Inappropriate
Person
" Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be. "
Right
Happiness
Left
" For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. "
Man
Responsibility
Family
" For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them. "
Conservative
Values
Now
" For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. "
React
Will
Why
" For the Left, affluence is won, not earned. "
Won
Left
Earned
" For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price. "
Price
Live
Celebrate
" From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. "
Parents
Happiness
Children
" Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. "
Misery
Suffering
World
" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "
Wisdom
Bible
Ignorance
" Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. "
Kindness
Good
Courage
" Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. "
Freedom
Freedom Of Speech
Organization
" Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. "
Nature
Fight
Happiness
" Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. "
I Am
Me
Myself
" How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. "
Violence
I Am
Media
" I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes. "
Ideas
Mind
I Am
" If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. "
War
World
Reading
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