Blind Faith : Blind Folly

5 avril 2013

THEOCRATIC FASCISM

Christopher Hitchens will long be remembered by the current generation's experience of him, and thanks to his books and especially his numerous videos, I hope, by many generations to come. Some have esteemed him - I do not - for his ability to down two...

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5 avril 2013

"CUIUS REGIO, EIUS RELIGIO"

The sixteenth century principle that you practise the same religion as your Prince, at least solved the problem of having to choose your own. It came with the territory. Today in Anglican England one can choose not to belong to the State religion, and...

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3 avril 2013

"YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO KNOW !"

We use the expression, jokingly, when we want to suggest that something or some behavior is so bad, so distressing or so stupid that it would be better to say nothing about it. One could see in it another, more serious connotation. Many families face...

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2 avril 2013

GOD AND MAMMON

In America, home of the Almighty Dollar, you cannot get away from Almighty God, whose name is everywhere, from bill-boards to bumper-stickers and even on the greenback itself. It is there explicitly ("In God We Trust"), but also implicitly in the quotations...

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2 avril 2013

"THE FRANCISCAN OF BOURGES"

Besides the mind-blowing, incomprehensible complexity, vastness, beauty and apparently permanent expansion of the Universe, probably the most troubling argument against atheism is the heroic, exemplary behavior and self-sacrifice of some believers. For...

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2 avril 2013

"SISTER ACT"

The talented actress, Whoopi Goldberg, in this highly entertaining movie, become a hit on Broadway, leads a choir of nuns singing a love-song to "My Guy". The guy in question is Jesus, who happens to be dead. Has been for 2000 years. It's a bit like being...

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1 avril 2013

ANYONE FOR TRINKETS ?

I have never heard of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, and am not curious enough to google to find out who she was. But I did stumble on a site selling the Saint's stuff, in the form of calendars, medals, statues, coloring books, blue and white buttons and...

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