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CORRESPONDENCE Bonfire of the Vanities “Reengineering Easter” or “Easter Replacement Theory” or “Triduum Blinds the Eyes” may be better titles for Jonathan Aitken’s recent Pesach...
...Looking suspiciously relaxed, his hair curling down over his shoulders, he was lounging on the lawn...
...Then he writes that Governor Fordice of Mississippi stirred up a national ruckus with his statement that “America is a Christian nation...
...Clinton and her group learn from their college days and the college afterlife that I did not...
...Welfare moms” and “NASCAR dads” are as quaint as “anarchist” (as an epithet) and “rock-ribbed Republican” were to our generation...
...It’s spooky how only a couple years can make such a discussion seem so dated...
...Now a conservative at age 54, he’s trying hard to keep his own 18-yearold son ignorant of Papa’s past...
...Does she hold a more profound vision for our future than I? How can the childhood that molded our beliefs and thinking be so contrary...
...The blessedness of Easter is that God gave His Son to cover our unworthiness...
...GARRISON MOORE Virginia Marilyn Quayle’s “Remember, not everyone joined in the counterculture” reminded me of one young man who might be called a halfway 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2007 CORRESPONDENCE hippie...
...If I lined up ten people and eight to nine of them are Christians, how can the man use the word “many” for a small minority of one...
...Oh well, what’s another thousand billion among friends...
...JULIUS WROBLEWSKI, MD Vancouver, British Columbia The $1,000,000,000,000Question Although the article by James Srodes in the April issue (“What’s a Trillion Dollars Among Friends...
...Salvation is by the unmerited favor of God...
...If I had made such atrociously exaggerated statements in any of my reports, they would have been crossed out in the client’s first review and he probably would have asked my firm to replace me...
...He knowingly decries traditional Resurrection celebratory items (eggs, bunnies), then snootily replaces them with his own, an Easter “bonfire...
...I am retired and have followed the news every day for years and don’t recall any ruckus...
...NANCY ANN HOLTZ Beverly, Massachusetts Engineering Precision I started to read the M. Stanton Evans’s article but I got the impression that the author wasn’t defining the subject of his article very well (“The Custom of the Country,” TAS, March 2007...
...At any rate I quit reading it and went to other pages of your publication...
...And who knows, the new ecosystems we would create just might give birth to wonderful intelligent complexity one day...
...Since on basic principle Life is preferable to sterile Death, we could make it our destiny to play Johnny Appleseed and sow life on as many planets and moons as possible...
...Get over it, they are saying, the Cold War, Vietnam, and government regulation of the means of production are history...
...What was it about their learning experience that drives these individuals to so desperately want to change the American fundamentals...
...I got the feeling that Mr...
...Designer life tailored to make do in a multitude of possible habitats should be a doable proposition...
...I read that reliable poll after reliable poll report that Americans believe in a Christian God by an outstanding majority that varies from 82 to 90 percent and most of them attend services at one time or other...
...Now if the Rare Earth hypothesis is the gospel truth we should take it as marching orders for a new mission to keep restless Mankind occupied, not as ammo in the war over the existence of God...
...is a good one, the last time I looked a trillion was 10 to the 12th power, not 10 to the 9th...
...The SS was only doing the world a favor gassing an infectious belief-meme, right...
...quotas or affirmative action), the sexual revolution, and certainly the various shades of pink or green are all but lost on modern voters...
...This baby-boom generation was somehow able to produce two distinct groups of individuals migrating on intensely divergent paths...
...Evans was exaggerating to build a case for his subject...
...We are talking about intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning, and, in a lot of cases, very affluent people created and raised by the Greatest Generation that are on opposing sides of this struggle...
...What in Heaven’s name is his definition of many...
...Better that than the usual vendettas and ultra-violence...
...So, thank you for the wake up call...
...ROBERT K. JONES Detroit, Michigan I much enjoyed Jonathan Aitken’s piece on Easter (“Easter Is in the Air,” TAS, April 2007...
...I was angry at my son for his lifestyle, so when his greeting from the government arrived on his big day I drove up to the house where he was living...
...Lynchburg, Virginia Alone Again, Naturally Tom Bethell’s article “The Anxious Search: Are We Alone...
...THEODORE B. HANNON, ESQ...
...No one, not one, is worthy nor will anyone ever become worthy of the blood of Christ...
...The fact is that our generation—I am from that most contentious of cohorts—is no longer relevant...
...I am a retired consulting engineer and a part-time author...
...I graduated high school and college in the late 1960s/early 1970s...
...Our uniqueness as an abode of higher life would neither support nor undermine the God Hypothesis...
...If we must complete with each other, let’s try to outdo each other for glory and prestige as interstellar gardeners...
...JOSEPH SABATINI Via the Internet God and Meme Roger Scruton’s “The Dream of the Meme” (TAS, April 2007) misses the point...
...But what a portal to a sacred quest...
...RAY CARNEY Lakewood, Colorado MAY 2007 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9...
...What did Mrs...
...J. ROBERT BROCK HACKER Lexington, Kentucky Generations to Go Referencing R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s excerpt from his new book, The Clinton Crack-Up, the titanic struggle that looms in the 2008 presidential election is right on (“2008: The Battle for a Generation,” TAS, March 2007...
...Then I read that Mr...
...Fewer and fewer voters care very much about either side of the issues our generation fought so bitterly about...
...Clinton is probably much smarter than many of us, but just as the best athletes rarely make the best coaches, the smartest kids in the class rarely make the best teachers, or, in this case, the best leaders...
...On the face of it the phenomenon seems nihilistic and self- lacerating and thus inexplicable...
...For voters under 40 all the contention you write about is ancient history...
...The nuances of racial politics (e.g...
...I will grant that Mrs...
...Time and experience have discredited both the Big Welfare Machine and the Big War Machine...
...Although he twice quotes the Apostle Paul he omits his critical message...
...TAS, April 2007) raised more issues than the simple question of the existence or absence of extraterrestrial intelligence...
...S. PICIACCHIO Powhatan, Virginia I read with interest your latest article drawn from your book about the battle between the factions of the ’60s generation...
...their biped neighbors) with an eye to eventual easy rule of a spiritually neutered and cringing populace...
...Allwe-need-to-do-is-rid-ourselvesof-these-silly-old-ideas-about-Go d-and-mankind-will-live-inpeace-and-harmony crap, only more dangerous...
...Evans writes, “There are, after all many people about these days who aren’t Christians...
...It was only your article that made me realize this...
...The film that hides Ephesians 3:106 from the mind lies atop the bog of spiritual lethargy permitting the continued growth of Triduum...
...It is an insignificant minority in our democratic nation where the majority rule...
...If not, then Dawkins needs to explain why atheists killed 100 million innocent people during the 20th century, and he should do it looking in the mirror...
...That philosophical aside about the intelligentsia’s fetish for demoting Man to the lowest rung of existence as a matter of sport rather than Science is a reality...
...I handed his postcard through the car window and called out, “Happy Birthday, Number 87...
...Let’s face it, whatever we did to the country for good or ill—and I believe we did much of both—our day is lost and gone...
...But perhaps there is a form of secondary gain here, the satisfaction of spitting on the dreaded competition (i.e...
...But when the draft ended before he was called up he said his plans for his future would have made him go if it hadn’t...
...CORRESPONDENCE Bonfire of the Vanities “Reengineering Easter” or “Easter Replacement Theory” or “Triduum Blinds the Eyes” may be better titles for Jonathan Aitken’s recent Pesach rendering (“Easter Is in the Air,” TAS, April 2007...
...Paul states, “For you are saved by grace and that not of yourself lest any man should boast...
...That Christians should strive to honor the Lord’s resurrection must be an act of joy and thanksgiving that He saved a “wretch like me” rather than one set forth to make one “worthy...
...Shades of the Nazi Jew-gene...
...Who knows...
...It is difficult to see how we arrived here, particularly in light of the fact that Europe continues to provide us a bright, shining example of the possible outcomes...
...Aitken, however, has implied the Christian might somehow be both obliged and able to become “worthy” of his salvation...
...Dawkins’s meme is nothing more than recycled Rousseau dressed up as pseudo-science...
...As St...
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