The Gospel of Life in a Culture of Death
Just War Theory and Abortion; Salvation, Relationship and Experiencing God; What About People Who have Never Heard about Jesus?
The Don Johnson Show 9-30-08 Don hands out a Jonathan Swift Award to Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite for classifying preborn babies as enemy combatants. Don and Brandon discuss some listener emails. Topics include the fate of those people who have never heard about Jesus...
How the West is Embracing Fascism. Does the Bible Say You Should Be True to Yourself? Can the Bible Be Reconciled with Evolution?
The Don Johnson Show, 9-26-08 Sarah Palin's rise to fame has highlighted the fact that over 90% of preborn babies with Down's Syndrome are killed. Camille Paglia thinks we should call abortion what it is, murder, and embrace it. In the Netherlands, infanticide is...
Converting to Islam Because it Feels Good and More
The Don Johnson Show, 4-24-08 A U.K. Christian converted to Islam, but doesn't seem to have any good reasons for having done so. According to Professor Daniel Dennett, religion is the greatest threat to rationality and science. Don argues that he is actually, and...
Islamic Arguments against Christianity, Leaving Scientology and Abortion for Art
The Don Johnson Show, 4-17-08 A discussion of some topics that were raised in last week's interview with Stephen Gibson. Don and Brandon answer some Muslim arguments against Christianity that were sent in by a listener. A T.V. star is mad at Scientology for not...
The God Particle and More
The Don Johnson Show, 3-27-08 In Search of the God Particle: Physicist Steven Weinburg hopes to find a naturalistic explanation for everything. Can naturalistic philosophy explain why meditation can change the brain? The fallacy of religion? The debate over whether or...
Margaret Sanger Would be Proud
Live Action's The Advocate does a wonderful job of exposing how successful Planned Parenthood is at fulfilling their founders racist, eugenic vision for the world.
Fred Phelps, Will Smith, the New Math, and a Jonathan Swift Award Winner
The Don Johnson Show, 1-24-08 Fred Phelps' ridiculous theology. Will Smith's defense of Tom Cruise's beliefs. The relationship between philosophy, morality, and America's poor math scores. Alison Piepmeier wins our Jonathan Swift Award for Ridiculous Pro-abortion...
Confusion Abounds
David Limbaugh assesses the weak theological and moral musings of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Whoopi Golberg in this good article.
Proper Discrimination, Conception Day, Madonna, Sarah Silverman and More
The Don Johnson Show, 9-20-07 Topics include: Caller Daniel talks about atheist arguments for morality. Some priests in Britain are facing charges of discrimination for saying Hinduism is false. Madonna, the "ambassador for Judaism." Conception day in Russia Sarah...
THE PRO-ABORT MINDSET VI
I don't find the Sarah Silverman clip below funny (it is actually quite offensive, so be warned), but the fact that it is supposed to be confirms what I have been saying about the pro-abort mindset. As far as I can tell, this is an attempt at satire. It is about...
HOW PRO-ABORTION ARGUMENTS DEMEAN WOMEN
Anna Quindlen offers an interesting take on the abortion argument in a recent Newsweek article. She points out that most pro-lifers do not have a good answer when asked how much jail time they would like to see given to women who have abortions should that procedure...
THE PRO-ABORT MINDSET V
The L.A. Times front page, as it is prone to do, yesterday offered some pro-abortion propaganda that once again clearly exposes the position for what it is. The first three paragraphs are really all you need to read:Fourth-year medical student Megan Lederer recently...
TINY BUT PERFECT IN EVERY WAY
Some biting commentary from the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web Today:Womb With a View London's Daily Mail offers proof that human beings are not animals: An unborn elephant, tiny but perfect in every way. A dolphin swimming in the womb, just as it will have to...
The Pro-Abort Mindset IV
Today's front page LA Times article on abortion offers a clear picture of the attitude and philosophy behind this insidious practice. Between the sheer emotional callousness of the doctor (and many of the patients) to the outright idiocy of the "reasons" they present...
FETAL FARMING
Chuch Colson has some insightful comments about the real motives of stem stell researchers.
WHEN IS A MOTHER NOT A MOTHER?
A pointed observation from Best of the Web:In an apparent effort to reduce the number of casualties from future hurricanes, a Little Rock, Ark., doctor "has offered to perform free abortions on hurricane evacuees," the Associated Press reports:Despite...
Are Religious People Morons?
The Don Johnson Show, 8-6-05 The prevailing take on such current events as the Intelligent Design Movement, Muslim terrorism and stem-cell research is that the battle is between faith and reason. On one side you have intelligent rational folks and on the other you...
BABY OR FETUS II
From OpinionJournal's "Best of the Web": Life Begins at Conception--if You're a Panda "A 13-year-old giant panda gave birth to a cub at San Diego Zoo, but a second baby died in the womb, officials said Wednesday."--Associated Press, Aug. 3 "A...
BETTER OFF DEAD
This week's winner (in a landslide) of our Jonathan Swift award for most ridiculous pro-abortion argument goes to Michel Read. He was born with a skin abnormality that caused some disfigurement. His looks have since been fixed by plastic surgery and he openly admits...
NARCISSISM AND CHILD “THINGIFICATION”
In the context of a very good article discussing homosexuality and parenthood, Kathleen Parker has some astute observations about how our culture views children: Throughout our culture, children have become objectified, "thingified," created or...
The Rise of Religious Totalitarianism in the West
The Don Johnson Show, 7-30-05 Stories from England, Australia and Canada show how governments are primed to take over control and banish free exercise of religion. Our Jonathan Swift Award goes to Michael Read, who argues that he caused his mother to be made fun of,...
HOW TECHNOLOGY WILL AFFECT ROE VS. WADE
Tony Blankley has a really interesting column today about what technology is doing to the abortion debate.
WHEN IN DOUBT, KILL
The latest winner of our Jonathan Swift Award for most ridiculous pro-abortion argument of the week goes to David Barash. He argues in an LA Times Op-ed that since conception is a gradual process, it is impossible to pinpoint a moment when a human soul might be...
“At Least the Terrorists Have Meaning in their Lives” and More
The Don Johnson Show, 7-23-05 We analyze Tim Lott's assertion that the suicide bombers are to be admired in some ways because they have something that the West simply can't offer: meaning in life. This weeks Jonathan Swift Award for Ridiculous Pro-Abortion argument...
The Suppression of Religious Free Speech and Rise of Propaganda in the West, The Killing of Babies to get a “Baby-Smooth” Face and Some Advice for Tom Cruise on How to Evangelize on Behalf of Scientology
The Don Johnson Show, 6-25-05 From ridiculous "hate-crime" laws in Australia and Britain, to fake documentaries in America, truth seeking and open debate are on the way out. This week's Jonathan Swift Award goes to the Russians who are extracting stem cells from the...