Is Philosophy Dead?
“… to more fully know and love God, who is as much the captivator of minds as he is the compeller of hearts.” I love the expression as it is not either-or, either mind or heart, but the unity of those two. More on it here.
Tired Of God?
“My people, what have I done to you, how have I made you tired of me? Answer me!” … Will he (God) be pleased with rams by the thousand, with ten thousand streams of oil? Shall I offer my eldest son for my wrong-doing, the child of my own body for my sin? You have […]
On Easter People Power
In early 2023 in Auckland certain Posie Parker was drowned out by a crowd of over a thousand people and attacked with tomato juice. They called it people power. Roughly 2,000 years ago on Easter in Jerusalem a crowd persuaded a cowardly governor to have the King of the Jews crucified. Perhaps they called it […]
On Novelty Of Christianity
In 2016, Tom Holland wrote an article titled “Why I Was Wrong About Christianity” for the New Statesman, in which he said that he had come to realise he was incorrect to have thought in the past that his own western values derived from the Greece and Rome of antiquity and owed nothing to Christianity: Familiarity […]
On The Sanctity Of Property
Here I must digress and say why the other great international force, the Catholic Church, has not been able—and will never be able—to attack Industrial Capitalism as a whole and directly, though, as I have said, it acts indirectly as a solvent of this evil and will destroy it wherever society remains Catholic. The Catholic […]
On Totalitarianism Of Political Parties
To assess political parties according to the criteria of truth, justice and the public interest, let us first identify their essential characteristics. There are three of these: • A political party is a machine to generate collective passions. • A political party is an organisation designed to exert collective pressure upon the minds of all […]