“If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.” IfsHumansLongSaidSometimesShowsMightViewsModernDesignTelevisionBearsIntelligentArguingBelieverDevotionErasMaryCheeseVirginsDeitiesSandwichesExhibitsTelevision ShowsFree TimeOmnipotentIntelligent DesignVirgin MaryEbayModern EraGrilled CheeseCheese Sandwiches Author:Anna Quindlen
“The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.” ArtCultureModernConditionsMovementMaterialsBearsArt IsMarkPsychologicalAbstractModernismAbstract ArtModern Culture Author:Meyer Schapiro
“Is it our task to force the biblical doctrine of God to answer to modern culture, or (is it our task) to address modern culture with the biblical doctrine of God? If modern culture-or any culture-establishes the baseline for the doctrine of God, such a doctrine will certainly bear little resemblance to the God of the Bible.” IfsLittlesCultureForceAnswersModernBearsTasksDoctrineAddressesBiblicalResemblanceModern Culture Author:Albert Mohler
“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.” ThinkingMenShouldDoeStillsMatterCoursesModernBearsAbsurdTorturePermitBlindnessEgotismMonstrousChildbirthAtrocitiesBarbarismIndignationUnspeakableModern ScienceUnheardPainlessUncivilized Author:Isadora Duncan
“The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.” NeedsEndsLightModernCenturyFiguresArmsBearsConstitutionPunishmentFakeSpiteUnusualInvestigationStrictDictionaryDiggingRight To Bear ArmsInterpreter18th CenturyCruel And Unusual Punishment Author:Richard Posner
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall