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Rise (and fall) of rational Theology
When I mentioned King James Bible in an earlier post, I deliberately left out the turmoil of Continental Europe. The 17th century brought on wars that have somewhat falsely been called religious wars, but are generally the 30 years war.
It was about formerly Catholic princes, king, dukes etc. pitting their forces against Read more…
Celebrating King James Bible
Some others may have read the August Ensign, and noted the pages dedicated to celebrating 400 years of King James Bible. I was sort of inspired to put my 2 cents about the Bible in ordered bits as if someone else were interested in my thoughts. Feel free to criticise/correct me; but my hope is that people would study history, so we could learn from past mistakes. Read more…
Hierarchy
What is “hierarchy”? Let me answer in the words of etymology dictionary:
c.1343, from O.Fr. ierarchie, from M.L. hierarchia ”ranked division of angels” (in the system of Dionysius the Areopagite), from Gk. hierarchia ”rule of a high priest,” from hierarches ”high priest, leader of sacred rites,” from ta hiera ”the sacred rites” (neut. pl. of hieros ”sacred”) + archein ”to lead, rule.” Sense of “ranked organization of persons or things” first recorded 1619, initially of clergy, probably infl. by higher Read more…
Confessions of An Elitist
Two disclaimers: I am not at all party inclined, so if any examples seem unbalanced to you, perhaps the unbalance is with you? No, really, I tried to take examples of both political parties’ representatives follies for the most egregious examples of how insistence on ideological purity combined with political expediency lead to disaster. Second; this is long. I’ve never written a blog post over 3,000 words, and I don’t want to do it again. I just don’t want to work this into three different posts right now (it’s almost 3 AM). You can skip the scientific experiment description around the middle, and the Viet Nam footnote in the end, if you want to get through faster. But if you’re at all interested in the causes of the Viet Nam debacle with its parallels to current situation in Middle East; or if you like to read a description of a simple scientific experiment with surprising results, go ahead and read if you have time. Lean back and immerse in the weirdness of the world.
We have a new dirty “four-letter-word” in this language that I love so much: “Elitist” (those of you, who can count beyond four Read more…
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