Adventus

"I would like to say 'This book is written to the glory of God', but nowadays this would be the trick of a cheat, i.e., it would not be correctly understood."--Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."--Soren Kierkegaard

Sunday, April 12, 2015

"All Professions are Conspiracies against the Laity"

The shorter version of this : philosophers are like any other modern professional. If you want them to pay attention to you, brings lots...

Of nature and destiny

Just pluck this quote and regard it in the context of the current prevailing internet discussions (where atheism rules the world and will ...

Thursday, April 09, 2015

I still blame Hobby Lobby

I suppose I'm establishing something of a brief against the reasoning in the Hobby Lobby decision (and, by extension, the Supreme Co...

Elisabeth Sifton praises her father, Reinhold Niebuhr

An interview ( worth reading on its own) which ends with her favorite quote from her father , which is also a favorite of mine: Nothin...

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

The more they remain....

Yeah, yeah; we have to keep asking.... I suppose the advantage is, getting to see it stated plainly: "This isn't about disc...

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

What we talk about when we talk about...

... something we don't really know anything about. But I don't mean something we can know anything about. Well, I don't me...

Monday, April 06, 2015

Othello and Rolling Stone at UVA

I've had personal experience with people simply making up stories about me, so I know it is possible. The problem is, just saying t...

What rough, rude beast....

It's seems pertinent to just ask again.... I blame Hobby Lobby. My parents were raised in Christian churches. They got married i...

Sunday, April 05, 2015

Easter vigil Easter Morning

I originally wrote this over at Thought Criminal . It's pretty much a bit of vainglorious navel gazing, but I decided to post it her...

Friday, April 03, 2015

Good Friday 2015

Not a version I was familiar with, but still achingly beautiful. Aside from Bach, probably the only music I would allow on this day.

Good Friday: A Meditation

I've learned to think of Good Friday as the day the church wears black, and strips the altar of all vestments and colors. There should...

Wednesday, April 01, 2015

Still unclear about the concept

“If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide them pizzas for a wedding, we would have to say no,” O'Connor told the news station...

Same as it ever was

“It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecili...

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Riffin' on RFRA....(sorry)

Because, really, nothing else works here.... I was gonna put this in a comment, but it got too hard to read what I was saying in that ...

Monday, March 30, 2015

In which I admit I'm still confused by RFRA

If I could just index these posts by picture.... Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion in Employment Division v. Smith (or, as Sl...

Friday, March 27, 2015

Why ask why?

Adding to what I said below : To this day, the motive for the pilot’s actions remain unclear, though rumors have circulated online ...

Thursday, March 26, 2015

"Lord, I can't go back there..."

I just wanna ask Mike Pence : Can I open a business in Indiana and refuse to serve blacks because my religion tells me to have nothing ...

"There's just a meanness in this world"

When I lived in a parsonage I lived just a stone's throw from a cemetery that was well over 100 years old. A local group of enthusia...

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