Tag: Judeo-Christian tradition
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“Lived Reality”
by Linda Goudsmit, blogging at Pundicity, ©2025 (Dec. 28, 2025) — “Lived Reality” is a term derived from the subjective, personal experience of an individual. Similar terms like “direct experience” and “firsthand experience” help define the specific meaning of “lived reality.” What is most descriptive, however, is its antonyms. The Power Thesaurus lists ten opposites of lived…
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Stoking Antisemitism
by Linda Goudsmit, blogging at Pundicity, ©2025 (Sep. 27, 2025) — The controversy over Tucker Carlson’s antisemitic remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on September 21, 2025 demands answers to two foundational and separate questions: 1. Who gains from the assassination of Charlie Kirk? 2. Is Tucker Carlson advocating antisemitism? To answer these questions, we must first…
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MAMA: Make America Moral Again
by Linda Goudsmit, blogging at Pundicity, ©2024 (Dec. 23, 2024) — Every day I read chilling statistical reports on the escalating violent crime in America––murder, rape, robbery, assault. The staggering increase is horrifying, but what is most alarming to me is the percentage of young people who accept criminality as a societal solution. The Hill posted a…
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What is a Human Being?
by ProfDave, ©2022 (Jan. 20, 2022) — What is a human being? First, he/she is a creature. Someone or something made him/her. Think about it. You did not make yourself or pop into existence spontaneously in the big bang – or a little pop. Or did you? Are you a self-made man or woman –…
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Understanding Radical Islam
“RELENTLESS JIHAD” by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016 (Oct. 16, 2016) — On Saturday evening, September 20, 2016, a pressure cooker bomb exploded in a dumpster in New York’s Chelsea district. The bomb was powerful enough to blow the heavy steel container more than 120 feet through the air, and metal fragments from the explosion were found more…