THE MOST OFTEN HEARD FALLACY OF FAITH SKEPTICS: Leave it to a 19th Century divine to anticipate 21st century arguments.

MEMO TO SKEPTICS: My view and that of a great many Instapundit readers is that politics is downstream from culture, which is downstream from philosophy and theology, so talking about one necessarily encompasses assumptions and principles, often unstated, about one or both of the others. Being a great admirer of James Madison, the First Amendment’s author, I welcome the expression of opinion contrary to my own and hope you will afford me the same.