“If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” — 1 Peter 4:17 There is hardly a Progressivist Catholic theologian who hasn’t heard of Harvard’s late existentialist philospher and philospher Paul Tillich. Most remain in awe of him. Situation Ethics, which Tillich subscribed to, doubtless plays a role in… Read More Consider Paul Tillich
“Dada thrives on contradictions. It is creative and destructive. Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it.” So says one narrator of journalist-filmmaker Mick Gold’s Europe After the Rain, a 1978 Arts Council of Great Britain documentary on not just the international avant-garde movement called Dada but the associated currents of surrealism churning around that continent… Read More 1914. Europe After the Rain
“The decision to exercise the rights of his royal supremacy to decide theological doctrine and practice, despite Anne Boleyn’s fall and Henry’s remarriage to Jane Seymour (who was rumoured to be conservative in religion) came as a surprise to some European commentators, who had hoped for Henry’s return to the Catholic fold once Anne was… Read More Why Does Tudor History Matter— (& not Just for Britain)?
It was Aldous Huxley who, very early, saw sexual decadence combining commercial interests with political manipulation in the emerging media. And he knew what that would mean for a culture. “Aldous Huxley in his 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World depicts a culture in which pleasure is compulsory and engineered to eliminate intellectual challenge and to… Read More Aldous Huxley, Sex, and Corporate Psychological Manipulation
“Don’t think that you’re above it. I don’t think that I’m above it. Never think that you’re above any kind of a sin. It’s something that people struggle with, it’s something that can find you easily on the internet. The internet is now a necessity of life. It’s a utility like water or electricity… I… Read More Trent Horn on Big Pornography and Revisionist Theory
For his honest reporting on the Stalinist show trials Malcolm Muggeridge lost his job and was blacklisted for a time. The following is from 1979. (Drawing by a former Gulag prisoner) “The Great Liberal Death Wish” is a subject that I’ve given a lot of thought to and have written about, and it would be… Read More The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.
E. Michael Jones on Sexual Liberation as Political Control. Note: I had some difficulty formatting the text here, but I think the reader will find the selection useful. “On August 7, 1773. Pope Clement XIV, after four years of stalling, finally acceded to the pressure exerted by the House of Bourbon and its Masonic ministers… Read More E. Michael Jones on Chaos
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