thoughts in and out of season
Here’s an edited version of a usenet discussion I had on immigration in a Catholic newsgroup:
… More ...Ille: In the US the government is discussing new rules on how to keep THEM out of the US.
Ego: What’s with the “THEM”? Disagreement on immigration does not mean stupidity and malice.
Ille: The THEM
No big surprise: when they finally found a classical bust that still had its paint on, they noticed something:
… More ...It had … been assumed that classical statues were painted brightly. In fact, the colouring on the head is a delicate shade of orange-red, which, although faded, indicates that classical colouring was subtle and sophisticated.
Here’s an account of the thought of the French Jesuit, paleontologist, heresiarch and general space cadet Pierre Teilhard de Chardin that makes it a bit clearer why his evolutionary theology appeals so much to so many. If you make Christ the outcome of the evolution of an endlessly-more-universal this-worldly social process what you’ve really done … More ...
Mr. Kalb has suggested, that in the liberal understanding of the world, “rationality” determines the way in which one must think about things in a liberal society. “Rationality” therefore becomes a criterion for both the mode of discourse and the content of discourse within a liberal society.
No objective criteria exist to determine what “rationality” … More ...
Does anyone else ever post reviews for some of the new books available on amazon.com? One thing I’ve noticed is that they delete right wing reviews. I recently posted a review for the new book by Paul Gottfried THE STRANGE DEATH OF MARXISM, and within a week it was deleted from their system. Amazon.com is … More ...
Found this in an old edition of the Chesterton Review. Very good IMHO.
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â€The Patriotic Idea†by GK Chesterton, St. George Educational Trust, A4 papers. 24 pages. Obtainable from the Trust of St. Michael the Archangel, 113A Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, W9 2EW. 1.50 pounds, postage 50p.
There is an epigram of GK … More ...
I’ve read a few of the literature associated with the Kinist movement. You can learn some basic information about them at the Kinist Institute. Basically it seems they’re a Reformed Calvinist-based movement that believes in an ethnic-based Christian society.
Overall, despite their typical Protestant skepticism towards us Catholics as being true Christians, they … More ...
I’d been out of internet contact for 10 days or so and hadn’t seen the cartoons that supposedly gave rise to all the delayed Muslim outrage. When I did I was startled by how mild they were. A few of them seemed likely to offend: one that made the Islamic crescent look like horns … More ...
Betty Friedan has died at 85 of congestive heart failure. (If the linked four-page ABC News obituary won’t proceed page-by-page, click on “next” instead of the page number.)
Probably there’s not a Turnabout regular who couldn’t write a twenty-page comment on this woman’s career and significance so I won’t try to put in my “two … More ...
Fr Nuehaus in the December First Things has a couple of entries on Ratzinger’s 1988 Erasmus Lectures, part of which were published under the title “On The Way To Christ.”
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0512/public.html
I found this part interesting (compare it with the prevailing norms of Liberalism), and wanted to share it.
” The first time I had … More ...