religion

    The Theocratic Red Herring

    By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  February 28th at 06:49 PM  | 

    This whole kerfuffle over Obama’s dictates about abortion, contraception, and reproductive rights has the left arguing their usual nonsense about keeping church and state separate.  Rooted in their argument is a basic ignorance of the Constitution and its purpose.  Professor Obama is first among these ignoramuses.  The reason the First Amendment of the Constitution is worded in such a way is to prevent “the Church” | Read More »

    Excising Luther from Lutheranism

    By: lukematthews (Diary)  |  February 15th at 03:28 PM  | 

    I had wondered why my parents no longer consider themselves part of the Lutheran church.  Now I know.  Bishop Peter Rogness, the St. Paul synod leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, just gave me my answer.  Rogness wrote a paean to collectivism in a February 6, 2011 StarTribune letter titled, “Government is not the enemy.”  While I don’t believe the government should be the enemy, nor that | Read More »