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  Moral questions are rational questions that discuss how we are to live the best possible life. Christianity produced a distinct set of moral virtues that were the ideal standards for justice in traditional, historic Western nations. Christianity, ethics and Habermas: Since the atheist, relativist ideology took over the hegemony in the West, these ideals have been scrapped and substituted …

  To the surprise of many, Europe’s arguably most important intellectual, Jürgen Habermas (1929-) has made religion a major theme of his work late in life. The origins of Human Rights is Christian theology: Realizing that religion’s prominence in the public sphere has not diminished, rather on the other hand, is more vital than ever, Habermas is critical of his …

  Herland Report TV host, Hanne Herland speaks to the famous psychologist, Dr. Brenda Caldwell, Dr.B about suffering, bitterness, and its remedy in this world so tormented by pain. Dr. Brenda Caldwell says: “There’s so many people that are angry in America and around the world.  It seems like we are divided like never before, but where does that come …

  Psychiatric disorders and mental health problems are skyrocketing in the United States. More people died from suicide in the United States last year than any other year on record, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, writes CNN. At least 49,449 lives were lost due to intentional self-harm in 2022 — nearly 15 deaths …

  An underlying sorrow weights down the Western culture. Our civilization is blanketed with a light melancholic fog of neuroses, mental pain, depression and loneliness. Mental Pain: What happened? How did we end up in a situation where loneliness and depression are such massive problems? What happened to the family? And to the life long companionship between the man and …

  What happens when an atheist thinker who arguably was Europe’s strongest voice for atheist secularism, changes his mind and advocates for Christian ethics? To follow the development of Jürgen Habermas has been a remarkable journey. He now states that Christian ethics have a greater role to play in society than many secularists previously thought. His point is that it …

  Since the early 1980s, economic growth has increasingly been driven by financialization in the West – the replacement of industrial activity by financial trading. Traders like financial mogul and hedge-fund investor, George Soros, who has been called the world’s most famous investor, have greatly benefitted from financialization. Gangster Capitalism and Soros: Soros explains in his famous 60 Minutes interview …

  Ron Unz is a voice of conscience for history and science. In this essay, Unz shows that science is governed by money and produces the explanations that money desires. Money Is Destroying Science: Consequently, in place of truth we get lies.  Unz reviews the AIDS controversy and finds that truth lost to money, and we were given in the place of …

  The wealth gap is at the highest since the late 1930s and the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio calls for reforming capitalism, arguing that if the US does not redistribute wealth and opportunity, the country’s existence as a stable global power is threatened, writes Business Insider. He said the US needs leadership that will declare inequality …

  In my book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions (2000), I discussed the weaponization of law in order to easier convict criminals.  Once this process begins, it expands.  Weaponized Law: In the 21st century we have witnessed a remarkable expansion in the weaponization of law. For example, the use of weaponized law against Trump rally attendees and against President Trump himself.  The weaponization of …

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, sociologist Max Weber states that when modern Capitalism took form in Protestant countries such as Switzerland and Germany about two hundred years ago, the ideal was to earn money and increase wealth – not to squander one’s income away on status, luxury and consumerism. The duty of the believer was to use …

  Pope John Paul II once said that the problem with the current type of Western Capitalism is that it is wrenched off from its original moral foundation. Selfishness has become a virtue and the path to success. There is little regard for the traditional focus on duties and responsibilities. Yet, if “Capitalism” becomes equivalent to the individual’s right to …

  “Hanne Herland of the European Herland Report has a book published in which she argues that the ruling elite has resurrected feudalism by financializing the economy and offshoring middle class jobs. The title is New Left Tyranny, but it is about gangster state capitalism,” writes the leading political economist, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in this analysis of the book: “Historically, …

  We live in a mainstream culture that almost completely denies the spiritual realm and its influence on human beings. You hardly hear anything positive about religious beliefs or traditional values, for that matter. CNN and the mainstream outlets chronically only address issues that fit the atheist narrative. Yet, science proves that faith has a strong positive impact on, for …

  The world is a rough place. None of us survive this. The earth and the realm around it is seized by evil. We will inevitably all face death. The Quest for Mental Health: The body, for which we have cared so much and protected from danger at the best of our ability when alive, will cease to exist and, …

  August 3, 2023, the Australian Senate held a COVID hearing. Sen. Gerard Rennick asked Dr. Krishan Thiru, Pfizer’s Australian medical director, to explain the mechanism of how the mRNA COVID shot causes myocarditis. Thiru, however, kept talking in circles rather than answering the question. Pfizer Is Hiding How COVID Jab Damages: Either Pfizer has no idea how the shot …

  COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history. Psychological techniques were extensively used during 2020 to incite fear and panic in the population. Propaganda strategies were also used to get people to support and defend irrational COVID measures such as masking, isolation, social distancing, lockdowns and jab mandates. What made the COVID propaganda so much more effective …

  The long term effects of post-COVID symptoms are questioned in the latest Time Magazine. COVID Vaccine Heart Issues: New infections that leave patients with cardiovascular problems such as blood clots, unusual heartbeats, stroke and so on, is puzzling doctors.  “What’s surprising is that people who are fully recovered from COVID are nearly twice as likely to experience these problems, …

  We have been hearing about the great economy for a decade while the labor force participation rate declined, real family incomes stagnated, and debt burdens rose. The American economy has been great only for large equity owners whose stock ownership benefitted from the trillions of dollars the Fed poured into financial markets and from buy-backs by corporations of their …

  The assault on whiteness is now part of official educational policy.  In New York City the head of the education department, Richard Carranza, a son of Mexican immigrants, is conducting a campaign against toxic white supremacy culture.   His training program for teachers identifies objectivity, individualism, belief in meritocracy, and Protestant work ethic as manifestations of white supremacy that have to …

  Herland Report TV (HTV): Hanne Nabintu Herland speaks with Ray Bady about pop culture, social media, Christianity, the music industry and why we need heroes. “We have gotten to where we are in America, because we have become a selfish place. Everybody’s trying to make it and what’s happening now is that we want to make it by any …

  We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force and number 4 in exports.  There’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that America is the greatest country in the world. Demoralizing America: We lead the world in only three …

  Where promiscuity and sexual selfishness becomes socially acceptable, it is increasingly hard to form any type of faithful marriage and family nucleus based on a partnership of trust, fidelity, loyalty, and patience. Hedonism’s greatest flaw: Western hedonism and its focus on selfish pleasure as the goal of life, demonstrates its greatest flaw in its failure to recognize that compassion …

  The effects of pornography on the brain have been labeled as “toxic,” analogous to drug addictions. Psychologists have long claimed that prolonged exposure to pornography causes the need for stronger stimuli in order to get sexually aroused. Toxic Pornography: Such over-stimuli lead to what was formally called “perversions,” including group sex and other excess sexual activities, sadomasochistic practices including …

  Many wonder how the West came to denigrate religion as a source of morality. How the intellectual, neo-Marxist elites in the media, at the universities, among politicians came to perceive Christians as reactionary parts of an undesirable, hopelessly outdated past. How did the neo-Marxists come to hate their own culture so much and its religious foundations? Why the cultural …

  Life in the hedonist West, where pleasure is the chief good in life, is becoming remarkably bleak. We have become totalitarian in a society characterized by an extreme permissiveness on almost every level. What happened to virtues such as honesty, fidelity, trustworthiness, selflessness, humility? And how is the lack of these virtues affecting us? The topic of a hedonist, …

  In the West, generations now grow up believing that sexual expressionism and erotic hedonism is the road to a fulfilled life. Sex is the new god. Sexual satisfaction, deviations – anything that leads up to an orgasm seems to be the ultimate goal of literature, Hollywood films, and contemporary music. Sexual expressionism: Yet, without consideration of the damage inflicted …

  Sexuality is arguably is one of life’s greatest gifts. Christianity explains how God created sex for the unification of marriage, as two individuals share their commitment to love in order to make their way together through the harsh, treacherous landscapes of life. On Sex and Religion: Protected by fidelity, trust and mutual respect, the love between them also satisfies …

  Marxism with its cancel culture and social upheaval is now engulfing America, applying its rigorous hatred towards traditional values, tearing down the pillars of stability. The idea, as presented in Karl Marx’ and Friedrich Engels’ work The Communist Manifesto, is that the only solution to injustice between the classes is to instigate bloody revolutions and terror upon the population. …

  In times of massive political upheaval such as what we are now witnessing, America’s Christian preacher and martyr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is worth remembering. He discusses in his “Letter from The Birmingham Jail“, the question of how unjust laws produce unjust societies. The question becomes: To what degree are new laws introduced in order to subdue citizens, …