While the founding members ensured the United States would be a secular republic—separating church and state—they did so with the bloody lessons of Europe in mind. The Christian civil war between Protestants and Catholics over which version of the “one true God” would prevail culminated in the Thirty Years’ War, one of the deadliest conflicts [...]
The rebel yell was a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, when charging to intimidate the enemy and boost their own morale. The South had seceded in order to protect its ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery which was increasingly under siege by powerful abolitionist forces. [...]
The 2016 American Presidential election currently has a large number of candidates on the Republican side, and a remarkable battle between two candidates on the Democratic side. Rather than endorsing any of the candidates, I want to take a look at some of the essential political background, especially from the point of view of Sanatana [...]