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Gene Van Shaar

Gene Van Shaar has spent a lifetime studying and teaching a wide range of religious and secular topics. He is a master teacher whose lessons and stories have generated both laughter and tears. As a defender of freedom, he has fostered independence by encouraging students and readers to embrace correct principles and resist coercion. Like Thomas Jefferson, he has "sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." He has written many articles and books including Pillars of Truth and Freedom, My Life and Lessons, Freedom and The Obama Debacle, The Freedom Saving Series, and The Scriptural Insight Archive.

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Op-Ed: The Age of the Destroyers

Gene Van Shaar
History’s greatest destroyers have always attempted to justify their destruction with the deceptive ideologies of Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and Collectivism. File photo: Travel Stock, Shutter Stock, licensed. SALT…
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The Story of Joseph and Aseneth

Gene Van Shaar
It came to pass in the first year of the seven years of plenty, Pharaoh sent out Joseph to go around the whole land of Egypt. Joseph came into the district of Heliopolis where he was collecting grain. Now there was in that city a satrap of…
Economy

Op-Ed: Has Anyone Checked the Oil?

Gene Van Shaar
A surefire solution for our cars and country is to fill up the oil. However, ruling radicals won't do it because the war on fossil fuels is part of their plan to destroy free enterprise and replace it with the ultimate self-defeating…
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Op-Ed: Victory From the Jaws of Defeat

Gene Van Shaar
In ancient times, Jacob appointed his son Joseph to become the family leader by giving him a “coat of many colors” for which the record says his brothers “hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him” (KJV Genesis 37:4). File photo:…
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Op-Ed: Getting Rid of Lying Lizards

Gene Van Shaar
The 1946 bold was not about divorce, but an allegory or fantasy about several ghost-like characters who were invited to leave a state of misery and enter into a realm of happiness. One traveler had a red lizard on his shoulder that…
Finance

Op-Ed: Why They Always Lie, Part 2

Gene Van Shaar
Biden-induced inflation (Bidenflation) has taken thousands of dollars out of our personal pockets and could result in national financial Armageddon, which by the way, democratic socialists would use as an excuse to seize more power. File…
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Op-Ed: Totalitarian Vipers

Gene Van Shaar
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – About two weeks ago, I published an article titled, “They Look, Smell, and Act Like Totalitarian Pigs.” Since that time, I have acquired and read the book The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian…
Education

Op-Ed: Education vs. Propaganda

Gene Van Shaar
Classrooms all over America are being flooded with lies. File photo: ShutterStock.com, licensed. SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Five decades ago, I was one of about a hundred students sitting in a college sociology class. In essence, the…
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Op-Ed: Critical Theory Subterfuge

Gene Van Shaar
SALT LAKE CITY, UT  – Social Justice Theory, Critical Race Theory, Climate Theory, Intersectional Theory, Queer Theory, etc. have grown from the same roots. The pseudo-intellectuals who endlessly pontificate and promote these illogical…
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Op-Ed: Constitution Killers, Part 1

Gene Van Shaar
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – A friend of mine was recently trying to solve an urgent equipment problem. After hours of failed attempts, he prayed for help and these words came into his mind: "When you really understand the problem, then the…