Showing posts with label Mark Tooley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Tooley. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Basic principles of Americanism as understood by Mark Tooley

Here, from what is expected of applicants for US naturalization:


  • Embrace the principles of the US Constitution
  • Support the good order and happiness of the US
  • Reject communism, totalitarianism, Naziism, persecution, genocide and terrorism



Thursday, July 26, 2012

Methodism Remains A Grandmother Of Bolshevism

Jewish Lutheran Atheist
Mark Tooley says as much here for The American Spectator:


Methodism, rather than stepping back to reflect on its 30 year initially successful but ultimately failed Prohibition crusade, instead accelerated its political activism. The Methodism Building became the headquarters of America's Religious Left in Washington, D.C., housing radicals of every cause especially from the 1960s onward. It still clung to an uncompromising perfectionism that insisted evil could be banished, and the New Jerusalem established, with the passage of just a few more laws.

Of course, presidents and congressmen no longer "tremble and gobble" before Methodism and its lobbyists, who are largely ignored. Banning handguns, even after 40 years of endorsement by Methodism, will never happen. But maybe other uncompromising idealists and utopians, who believe human nature can be transformed at the stroke of a pen, will heed the lessons of Methodism and Prohibition.