Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
I'm surprised that someone would put it this plainly, but they did: In practice, this means replacing our current elites in government, the media, and universities with a class of “self-conscious aristoi.” This new elite will “secure the foundational goods that make possible human flourishing for ordinary people.” More specifically, this new elite will abolish the …
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https://ifphc.wordpress.com/2023/08/08/gustav-h-schmidt-describes-the-horror-of-soviet-persecution-of-pentecostals-in-the-1930s-2/ In 1988, my own church took in 24 Ukrainian Pentecostals for resettlement in the U.S. (Well, they were a mixture of Ukrainians and Russians, but they were from the Ukraine, southwest of Kiev.) It was one of those experiences that doesn't happen often in life. We got to know people who had endured this …
There's plenty of angst: I am happy to announce that the parish vote has reached a quorum with more than an 80% majority in favor of disaffiliation with the Anglican Church in North America and pursuing affiliation with the Episcopal Church with the Diocese of Texas. The last month has been intense for all of …
It's that time of the decade again when we look back on the Watergate scandal and how it brought down Richard Nixon and many of those around him. In this case it is the fiftieth anniversary. I usually like to note that at this time of year--the scandal itself drug out for almost two years …
If you had to pick the exact day when the young, affluent, and oblivious of Washington DC were forced to accept that they live in a failed city, 22 … Washington DC is a failed city Mike Pence might want to consider this…
Timothy Fountain's piece That Golden Age of Porn is an honest piece on the era of 1969-1984 when porn was distributed freely (thanks in part to SCOTUS) in print and in theatres. Porn was a major disseminator of the sexual revolution. Tim's major contribution in this piece, however, was to remind everyone of the routine …
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To his army of ardent followers, Tom Holland has a unique ability to bring antiquity alive. An award-winning British historian, biographer and … The shadow of Pax Romana
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/the-question-of-a-weltanschauung-sigmund-freud/ This is the last in Books and Boots' series on Sigmund Freud, where Freud presents one of his most wide-ranging polemics against Christianity. Reviewing that polemic leads the author to find Freud wanting in his critique, to say the last. Although he gives his own reasons, I have a different take on why Freud's …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/future-of-an-illusion-and-other-writings-on-religion-sigmund-freud/ Another (maybe the last) in this series. It shows that, even for people sympathetic with Freud's project, his atheism doesn't have as strong of a case as he--or those who continue to make that case--thought it did. Includes a summary of a dialogue with Oskar Pfister, a Swiss pastor's son who made a case …
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