tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2883238231498128123..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Eve of Eve of Eve of ThanksgivingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-11975620115266247062019-11-26T08:19:30.444-06:002019-11-26T08:19:30.444-06:00I have got to get back to Niebuhr, I'm so back...I have got to get back to Niebuhr, I'm so backed up on books I should have read in the 1960s and on. I look at old books of sociology and social-theory and then I look at the theologians - who mostly seem to have read those books - and the theologians are the ones who made the sharpest observations and understood the issues so much better than the "scientists". I wonder if maybe some of the celebrity atheists of the 00s cracked a theology book and were scared off because they did it so much better than their guys did. I look at what the soc-sci CSICOP guys were writing even up into the 1990s and it's shockkingly obtuse and inept, some of them were calling for the abolition of ages of consent like Alan Ginsberg and NAMBLA were. Brought to mind by a troll attack at my place. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-73127098506563395252019-11-25T17:56:40.448-06:002019-11-25T17:56:40.448-06:00What does he propose we accomplish on this "d...What does he propose we accomplish on this "day of atonement"? I mean, what does he propose that will actually atone for anything instead of striking a pose and flashing an attitude? Atonement according to Merriam Webster, "to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome —usually + for". I suspect it's all about him, so, typical American. <br /><br />It reminds me of the review of a book by Helen and Scott Nearing in which Sandy Phippen outraged many a lefty in Maine by pointing out how insufferably sanctimonious they were. As I recall they made a thing of fasting on Thanksgiving and telling every one about it. I don't think they did the sackcloth and ashes thing, which led me to think they really weren't that into it. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com