“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I say the word “Anti-Semite” is vulgar and pedantic: that I think will be universally admitted. It is also nonsensical. The antagonism to the Jews has nothing to do with any supposed “Semitic” race—which probably does not exist any more than do many other modern hypothetical abstractions, and which, anyhow, does not come into the […]