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The Institute on Religion & Democracy is a Christian think tank affirming historic church teaching with democracy, human rights & religious freedom for all.

While Iran’s theocratic regime should be overturned, will Operation Epic Fury ultimately bring this goal closer to fruition or exhaust the patience of the American electorate with wars in the Middle East? @mlivecche @markdtooley @rwnicholson_ providencemag.com/podcast/ep-105…










Protestants wear and post "orange" on St Patrick's Day to protest Saint Patrick and exalt Protestant King William of Orange. In 1688, Protestant William of Orange's Glorious Revolution to depose CATHOLIC KING James II was heavily financed by Dutch Jewish bankers like Francisco Lopes Suasso, who loaned 2M guilders interest-free ('If victorious, repay; if not, my loss'). This aided William's success, boosted Jewish security & growth in England under his reign favoring the immigration of Jews to England.




If we’re going to gatekeep in the conservative movement, the number one question that should be on the questionnaire is do you believe in the separation of church and state? Do you believe in the first amendment? If the answer to that question is no then you’re not a conservative. It’s really that simple all of this other stuff is meant to obfuscate from that one basic question. So at the end of the day that is the line for the gatekeeping, do you believe that everybody in this country should be free to worship according to their faith. If that becomes a radical idea on the conservative right, then we already lost.




“The knowledge of ourselves is true humility. And without this we cannot be freed from vanity, a desire of praise being inseparably connected with every degree of pride.” -John Wesley juicyecumenism.com/2026/03/16/goo…

Are Catholic Integralists, who want a Catholic confessional state, and their populist fellow travelers, displacing Evangelicals as the main political energy on the political right?juicyecumenism.com/2026/03/10/cat…



