Author: C. Jines

One of the hot topics along the front lines of the culture war is the issue of the relationship between religion and government. In an attempt to establish a political theocracy, right-wing Christian Nationalists have designed their own historical narrative…

“Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” Jesus replied: “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.” -Matthew 19:21 It’s always entertaining…

Many people often ask about the differences between the philosophy of Plato and that of Aristotle. Today in America, those with any sort of religious association at all are familiar, either consciously or unconsciously, with St. Augustine and Plato. But…

“The only question is where in the Constitution is this non-existent ‘separation of church and state’ to be found?” The standard argument made by Christian Nationalists is that the specific words “separation of church and state” are not located in…

“Why all these pains, and what need of sureties? There is a short and easy way to settle the whole business. Let Mr. Jefferson only set his name to the first part of the apostles’ creed. ‘I believe in God,…

One of the things that Plato and Aristotle both agreed on is the necessity for the average citizen to be educated. To Aristotle, the leisure time that is acquired by the citizen should be spent to some degree involved with…

In today’s political debates I see two general approaches people use in political discourse: the intellectual drifter and the intellectual swindler. If truth is to be found, intellectual honesty is a must. Neither of these two approaches achieves this end.