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FFQF: Can Legislation and Reason Change America's Moral Climate?

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0000

To hear so many public figures, or even ordinary people who publicly sound their opinions, say it, many might answer “yes” to the above question. So many people, on all sides of any issue, see so many wrongs in a country, including ours, that need to be corrected. It seems to be the fashion these [...]

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FFQF: Benjamin Rush, 'Christocrat'

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Founding Father Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and “father of American education” (until about 100 years ago) brings things in perspective. I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power … will always fail of producing order and happiness [...]

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FFQF: The Bible in Schools

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:32:00 +0000

In a day and age when our society embraces moral relativism and religious relativism, in a day and age when these demented philosophies have produced more major problems than we seem to be able to grapple with, and in a day and age that refuses to turn to God in the midst of escalating licentiousness [...]

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FFQF: Benjamin Rush on Moral Authority

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:49:00 +0000

Last week we discussed the necessity of religious principle in the people of the republic in order for it to remain free. To use the words from last week’s quote: “Does [morality] require the aid of a generally received and divinely authoritative religion?” It is here that we run into a little dilemma, however. Our [...]

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FFQF: Benjamin Rush on Motherhood

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:24:00 +0000

Today’s quote comes from Benjamin Rush, a great but under-estimated Founding Father and American. In my humble opinion, he was one of the greatest men among the Founding Fathers. David Barton wrote an excellent biography of him, which is available from Wallbuilders, as a PDF on CD-Rom, or a book (paperback or hardback). I think [...]

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July 4, 1826, and the Dream of Benjamin Rush

Hercules Mulligan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:18:00 +0000

American history is filled with stories not just of American heroes and heroines, but also is enshrined in mystery and wonder. There are, for instance, many unsolved mysteries of the American Revolution, especially concerning telling predictions which can never be explained from a human perspective. But perhaps the most captivating and most well-known of these [...]

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