thoughts in and out of season
As things are now, the problem with the constitutional separation of church and state is that it assumes that government is not the vehicle of moral life. That assumption is inconsistent with the concept of social justice. “Social justice” means that government supervises how things end up. If government is responsible for what happens, … More ...
Are the strongest objections to women soldiers the pragmatic ones? Not really. Certainly the pragmatic objections are more than sufficient, but—as feminists would agree—apparent practicality shouldn’t overshadow fundamental principle.
The fundamental principle is that man is symbolic as well as practical. What the world is for us matters more than our projects within the … More ...
It seems unlikely that the Fortuyn murder will change anything. The Europeans have been absolutely unwilling to talk about issues relating to immigration and get openly abusive and hysterical whenever they come up.
Serves him right! says the Times of London. When people leave reason and decency behind to that extent it takes more than … More ...
The British press never ceases to disgust. Here’s the Times on the Fortuyn assassination, “Deadly Ideas: Fortuyn’s killing robs European politics of its innocence”[!]
I especially liked their comment that the killing
… More ...will link the violence that has hovered on the fringes of right-wing politics with the ugliness of racial conflict and the emotive
Random thoughts on politics and Christian orthodoxy:
Political modernism is the attempt to establish a wholly rational and this-worldly social order. The world is to be re-created and redeemed through man’s will. Political modernism thus substitutes faith in man for faith in God. As such, it is a denial of the nature of God, man, … More ...
Thoughts on politics and Christian orthodoxy:
Political modernism is the attempt to establish a wholly rational and this-worldly social order. The world is to be re-created and redeemed through man’s will. Political modernism thus substitutes faith in man for faith in God. As such, it is a denial of the nature of God, man, and … More ...
If it’s in Pravda it must be true: “120 million-year-old stone slab covered with relief map of Ural Region”.
In Holland one of the targets of a sustained international hate campaign has been murdered.
It doesn’t take much to become a target in Europe these days. Pim Fortuyn, a Dutch sociology professor, fashion plate and former Marxist, who wanted to maintain public acceptance in Holland of his own flagrant homosexuality, was a “far-right leader”… More ...
Sorry for the constant changes in the blog’s appearance and URL. I think they’re mostly over now, although I still might fiddle with details. They all had to do with software changes I made to escape technical problems I had first with Blogger and then with Greymatter. Everything seems hunky-dory with Moveable Type, so I … More ...
I missed Latin mass yesterday—it’s been my craze ever since I decided I couldn’t stand the Episcopal Church—so I went to the local English one this morning. From the perspective of the old mass it’s an interesting combination of modernity and archaeology (that is, what worship is assumed to have been in the first half … More ...