RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Multiculturalism, which really is a fancy word for tribalism, functions in its proponents’ intellects and hearts as a secular utopianism, a final (or at least final-enough), unambiguous, taint-free state of the chosen and/or inexorable end-state of evolution. Utopia is a compound of…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Spiritual practice builds self-confidence, self-satisfaction, and finally self-sacrifice, by infusing one’s heart…
The old standards are still the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. The nightmare of human society at any time, during any era of history, is a conjunction of civil authority and religious authority in one person or…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. BLUF: the goal of our ruling class (oligarchs) and their satraps (bureaucrats/experts) is to turn the USA into regions of the planet administered by a global governance regime based somewhere. Over that where our oligarchs are not in agreement: Beijing, Washington D.C., or Ankara/Mecca/Tehran. Lipizzaners An actor’s failure…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Thandava And Christian Culture Well, all true but not enough truth, not simple and relaxing. Shrink concepts never are. More to the point, I believe, is a remark attributed to Rudy Giuliani today, that progressives do not know how to police. Expand that to: progressives do not know…
As is the feeling, So is the result. Our leadership classes got inverted decades ago. Several reasons that happened, but the central one is that our true leadership classes lost self-confidence after uncritically imbibing leftist/progressive utopian drivel. Into the vacuum created by their abdication of responsibility flowed bumptious ruffians, parvenues, largely female, whose manners and…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole The answer, sufficient if not complete, is the family — husband, wife, children — the primal structure of existence, who make the whole perishing thing work and happily. The family is the indicated and necessary ecclesial polity, the one persisting ecclesial institution. It is monastic. There…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole Advocate against personal and national sovereign freedom and The dialectics of reality throw you into dramatic irony you find Unbearably bitter and some find deliciously despicable. In that double bind, you have no exit save detachment of ambitions. Thus stand China today . . . and…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Until lately, Socialism has been beating Christianity over the question of who controls Christian Civilization through nations created by the Greek and Latin Churches. Until lately, Socialists have won every war they engaged…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Paraphrasing Julius Caesar’s famous announcement, Hillary Clinton infamously declared regarding Muammar Gaddafi, We came, we saw, he died. She could have declared, We came, we saw, we lied. Early in 2011, and under orders from their…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I do not like TV news’ frantic personalities and pace. They speed chatter over decisive facts without recognizing them and pursuing their significance. Still, Sharyl Attkisson in the foregoing interview gets…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Saint (in his own mind) James Comey has published a book titled A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership. I have not read the book and I will not read it. It’s…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Good and strong words from a plain man whose call sign is not Mad Dog but Chaos. Yet, the statement is tactical only, not strategic and has not been backed up,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Take Two on this subject is here. Blindingly fast, spinning, leaping, kicking, throwing, glaring, smiling, … the heat of the dance melts glaciers and ice cracks under its pulverizing steps. You…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A friend, a very fine historian, asked me to read and comment on this article by Spengler (David Goldman): Why Only Countries Willing To Take Risks Will Survive And Prosper. Both as a friend and as a devotee…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Contents of this post comprise the axis of my career as a theologian, which is to say, an educator and mystical philosopher. A precursor of this post I sent Dr. Holland Hendrix, then-President, UTS,…
