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Focus on 'The Family'
Rachel Maddow has Jeff Sharlet on her show to speak about the fact that the two jackasses who got caught cheating on their wives in the last couple of weeks were neck deep in 'The Family'.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31838452#31838452 religion, politicsJesus Wept
There is a force at work in this country that will be the death of freedom if left unchecked. It is not progressive policies mislabeled as 'socialism', which is meant to be code for 'Godless communism'. It is ultra-reactionary right-wing evangelical Christianity.
I lived in Alexandria when I read Jeff Sharlet's seminal article "Jesus Plus Nothing" ( Read more... )Immanentize the Eschaton
Estimating the nature and timing of our collective demise, the end of civilisation, of the entire human project, is even less certain - it might happen in the next hundred years, or not happen in two thousand, or happen with imperceptible slowness, a whimper, not a bang. But in the face of that unknowability, there has often flourished powerful ( Read more... )Don't Lull
Mnemonic Arts of Blessed Raymond Lull
Divine instruments for self learning, memory training, figures, trees, mnemonic hands, the sixth sense, angelic conversation, contemplation of GOD, science of the Holy Spirit.
via MeFiDream of the West
The Post-west: A civilization that has become just a dream
I recently had a dream that British marines fought back, like their forefathers of old, against criminals and pirates. When taken captive, they proved defiant in their silence. When released, they talked to the tabloids with restraint and dignity, and accepted no recompense ( Read more... )Life in Dar al-Harb
Life in the house of war isn't easy for those not of the brotherhood. Just ask the citizens of Lebanon who, if you believe the CNN version, were ruthlessly liquidated by Israeli aircraft who dropped bombs on southern Lebanon with no thought for the rules of war or civilian casualties.
As it turns out, reality was more like what I suspected: James ( Read more... )The Age of Horrorism
Martin Amis writes for the Observer on the origins and nature of Islamism and its impact on the rest of Civilization. To pull a quote from this essay would be to do it an injustice, so I won't. This is a very long piece, but I believe it is very important for us to read and digest it. I urge you to do so.
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via Chaos ( Read more... )Man is He gonna be pissed
One of my new favorite feeds is Religious Freaks, which on Friday featured a post about the lucrative "Christian Industry". This, of course, does not mean the saving of souls and the preaching of the good word, but instead the unseemly manufacture of goods and offering of services targeted at Christian consumers. This was underlined in a recent LA ( Read more... )Battleground: Europe
Jerry Pournelle, naturally and as usual, had an interesting mailbag over the weekend. While posted to different blogs they come from the same author, who goes by the pseudonym "Fjordman."
The first is post on The Brussels Journal entitled "The Twin Myths of Eurabia." In the article the author exposes as myths the ideas that European life under ( Read more... )
