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How to End America’s Decline

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:04:29 +0000

By now most Americans understand that the country is not only in decline, but that the situation is worsening. Economic, educational, and political problems multiply. Moral and religious values are increasingly challenged. Unfortunately, with all those things happening, something central to all of them can easily be overlooked—the abandonment of logic and critical thinking. The [...]

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Can the Church Help Restore America’s Values?

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 20:15:10 +0000

In a recent essay I explained that America's intellectual and moral decline can be reversed by restoring the ideas and practices foolishly discarded in recent decades—the belief that all humans are imperfect; that good and evil (sin and virtue) are real choices with real outcomes; that morality and truth are not created but discovered; and [...]

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When Feelings Take Control

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:45:10 +0000

I recently examined four false notions promoted by Carl Rogers (and Abraham Maslow) that are well on the way to destroying America. In this essay I will expand on one of them—the idea that feelings and emotions are a better guide than reason and logic. William Coulson, a close associate of Rogers, has noted that Rogers’ [...]

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