Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything.

Today I want to read my latest article in World Opinions,

and just to remind you, alert you again, that hopefully sometime this summer, well, I'm going to take

a little bit of a break from the podcasting and the articles.

And then when we re-engage at the end of the summer, beginning of the fall, hoping to have

separated out these readings into its own platform so that it doesn't get jumbled up. Life and books and

everything is partially long interviews and then short articles that I read. So we're going to try

to separate the two, but for now they're in the same place. And today I want to read

World Opinions latest article that I've written entitled anatomy of a sneer watch for three ways

progressive activists push their opponents into a corner in 1776 the english historian edward gibbon

released the first volume of his massive work the history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

As a quintessential example of Enlightenment history, with the assumed superiority of his then-current

age of reason over the religious superstitions of earlier centuries, Gibbon's six-volume

magnum opus was a not-so thinly veiled attack on Christianity as the chief culprit in Rome's demise.

Gibbon faulted Christianity for undermining the tolerant regime of pagan religion and plunging Europe into a millennium long dark age.

When asked for his reaction to the decline and fall, the Christian apologist William Paley replied

Tursley, who can refute a sneer?

USA Today's Nancy Armour recently published an opinion piece entitled, What ESPN's Sam Ponder

calls fairness is plain old bigotry.

Samantha Ponder is a well-known sports broadcaster with many high-profile television

responsibilities to her credit.

Ponder is also a Christian.

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