I don't have much to say lately. The economy is unimportant to me (in case you've tucked your head under a rock somewhere, Bush and the corporations got caught together in bed which means the financial system is in a crisis. The old white guy that's running for Prez is ...
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Assuming that peace is only a method toward establishing equity and justice, as suggested in an earlier post, the question is begged, "Is violence ever an acceptable method towards this same idealistic end goal?"
Historically
Christendom has long moved past ...
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The year was 1856. The sun beat down on the cotton fields and the dark backs of dozens of African Americans bent in manual labor on a plantation in Alabama. An overweight white man sitting in the shade ...
William Blake keeps haunting me. He was really one of the first to actually articulate the adverse effects of the "reason and science" Enlightenment concepts on the fragile, imaginative mythos of Christianity.
The battle of Blake's day was an epistemology that confined God to an abstract, confined watchdog. Thomas Merton has ...
As quoted in Subversive Orthodoxy by Robert Inchausti:
A few hundred years ago, Man asked God if he could switch places with Him for just a few seconds, so that he could know what it was like to be God, and God could know what it was like to be a ...