On Marx And Communism

Responding to this: This article strikes me as wrong, through and through. For one, it deals with Marx in characterizations of his thought and effects rather than in terms of his thoughts, their differences and effects from, say, those of Teilhard or Tillich and, more specifically on Marx’s personal point of rebellion — which was justified…

Pope Benedict XVI

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Responding to this. And to think I reprobate the Vatican!  My liberal Roman Catholic friends here shuddered at the election of Ratzinger, but I thought from the start that it would be an auspicious development and have…

Let Our Army Leadership Handle It, They Are Succeeding

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 Responding to this. A parallel phenomenon exists in theology: the only persons who can legitimately do theology and reform the churches are those currently on the front line religiously, meaning, the genuine…

Biblical Literalism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Discussing the internet hoax about the Koran containing a verse that specifies the date of the air attacks of 11 September 2001 on the United States: This is an excellent example of how…

The Sorbonne’s Deconstruction / Reinventing The Terror of 1789

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The bane of the modern era is the Sorbonne’s deconstruction, or better, sedition of the functions of spirit, namely, culture, religion and morality. This reinvents and reinvigorates The Terror of 1789. The vectors of this poison are cheats and idlers…

On The Use And Meaning Of Art

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 Responding to Joseph Epstein’s What Happened To The Movies. Scratching head. Was something important being written about? There must have been, but found myself agreeing, in general, only with the chap…

Multi-Culturalism = Utopianism = Communism

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…

Two Statements On Cindy Sheehan

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Our son is an Officer and West Point Graduate who deployed to Iraq and is now home. What Cindy Sheehan is doing is shameful personally and disrespectful of her son, who fulfilled his life doing what he wanted to do. It is shameful…

American Liberal Denominations’ Opprobrium For The State Of Israel

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Though it is erroneously put and hypocritically handled by them, there is a kernel of correct in the Presb/Episc/Method/National Council of Churches, etc. opprobrium for the State of Israel. It goes way back, existed in the 60s — I have first hand…

Dialectical Realism In Regard To Tribalism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Triggered by a comment by our soldier son, that Moslems are passing off tribal customs as Islam, I am in process of a systemic reconsideration of the entire situation, which is obsolescing most of how I have taken the situation to this…

Preach The Holy

The Church has won the war to establish human values in the national and, in principle, multi-national orbits. It took about 300 years. The Church’s secular message and mission succeeded. Additionally, humanism of all varieties has hidden religious sources and agendas. Now the Church must preach the Holy, the essential, on the far side of…

Global Warming

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, In my unlettered opinion, the global warming, if there is such, is ordinary cyclical and, to the extent human-driven — and such must be the case somehow for no activity is without consequences — the culprit is not burning of fossil fuels…

LBJ And The NVA

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Responding to this: I would challenge the assertion here that NVA aggression was not defeated by LBJ. Too broad. NVA was defeated on the battlefield by US/Vietnamese Armed Forces, under both LBJ and RMN. Another recent article…

Taking Down The Hegemony Masters In Iran

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, This relates to why the Truman admin did not tell all of why they dropped the bomb — that the all was too secret to tell, both in itself and for what its telling would give away. The same factor…

Truman And The Bomb Drop

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Responding to this: Too pat, not to the point, not crediting MacArthur’s points in Reminiscences. MacArthur is routinely dismissed as self-aggrandizing. This is a grave error made by self-projecting minds. My music composition teacher put it this way to a bumptious student in our class,…