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Were women dying by the thousands before abortion was legalized? (3 min)

One of the big lies was that before abortion was legal, women resorted to dangerous back-alley abortions that killed women by the thousands. Even if that was true, this sidesteps the bigger issue that for every legal abortion, one person dies every time.

And it isn’t even true.

The case against legal gambling (10 min read)

Now that marijuana has been legalized, the Church is going to have to deal with it on a whole other level. It used to be only the kids willing to break laws who could get their hands on it. But with legalization, experimentation becomes a lot easier to do… even for the “good” kids. So, too, with gambling. It’s always been an issue, but only for some. Now, it seems like half the commercials on TV are shouting about some easy online way to gamble away your money.

The article linked above is an American secular argument against gambling, but the point is equally applicable to Canada. And a biblical case against gambling can be found here.

7 questions for COVID expert Francis Collins

Collins was part of the efforts being made to censor COVID questioners, but in a clip making the rounds recently, he concedes that as a public health “expert” he was pushing conclusions based on only limited considerations:

“…so you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never might quite recover from. Collateral damage. This is a public health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset — and that was really unfortunate, it’s another mistake we made.”

If we were to become a post-family world (10-min read)

South Korea is the leading edge of a post-natalist – no baby – world where, in the last 70 years, women have gone from having an average of 6 children each to now just 0.78. And where South Korea is, is where we are heading.

Much of the blame for this demographic decline can be laid at the feet of the government, but the government is finding they aren’t able to undo the damage they’ve done. This, then, is just another example of how desperately the world needs to hear the Gospel so they can know and love the Lord first of all, and then, so they can start seeing the world as He does. Only then will countries be able to repent from and overcome the selfishness their governments have encouraged them to embrace.

Solar and wind are cheaper? (15-min read)

Solar and wind are sometimes marketed as being cheaper than fossil fuels. If that were so, notes Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, then why would they need massive government subsidies to get people to use them? I appreciate Epstein for making his case methodically and carefully, but wish he’d call a spade a spade and use “lie” instead of “false generalizations.”

Eggs are a wonder of engineering

The closer we look at creation, the more obvious the Creator’s fingerprints… even in the case of a “simple” chicken’s egg.