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 The Question I’ve not been able to follow the initial development of the current Israeli-Lebanese conflict. Why now, beginning on the same day as Iran had a deadline with the UN?…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. THE BACKGROUND The Hizbollah attack has forced the Bush administration to rethink its estimate of the “democracy” plan using Shiites — Islamic heretics — as the majority. All Shiites everywhere, Arab or Iranian, are being driven by the ones with the money and…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, OUTLINE Assumptions The Principle of Identity and the Functions of Spirit The Relation of Religion, Culture and Morality Critical Analysis and Political Creativity The Reason, Nature and Resolution of Religion Wars Existential Base of Religious Common Point…
Certain liturgical developments occur periodically. Here is an archive of such. The purpose is to consecrate life as a whole, to see the truth as the whole, to honor the mothers of all species and persons by fostering the circumstances which conduce to fulfillment of the intrinsic potential of each of their womb inhabitants and each of…
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…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Question: It seems to me that politics surrounding/related to terrorism (for lack of a better phrase on my part) is the impetus behind the Muslim ecumenical movement. Do you know if there was a political reason for the ecumenical movement in the US,…
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 This is great. The nerve this decision touched is Boston Tea Party strength. There is a doctrine (true, standard-forming learning) in theology that the virtues and the civil laws aiming to…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Something is in the air and the soul of our nation that was not present in the 1960s and that makes all efforts based on 1960s typologies simply obsolete nostalgia. It is a new era, one not…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Mr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide received an offer he could not refuse. With his removal from Haiti, the last nail is in the coffin of Jesuit Liberation Theology (and here). Liberation Theology (and here) was a political ideology and movement,…
Nature and Mission Of These Entities The discussion was whether military force is different in nature and mission from police force. Traditionally these forces are seen as different. The argument put against this traditional understanding was that, since war itself is unacceptable, West Point and the United States Army, the foci of the discussion, are…
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 A point on which there is significant and nearly universal misunderstanding is the Pope’s sentence, quoted in the Cardinals’ communiqué, to the effect that out of this situation must come a…
On The Importance Of Understanding Tom Jefferson, The Anti-Religionist The nation isn’t going to abide the “wall of separation” concept — which isn’t constitutional, merely Jeffersonian — because it violates the unity principle, which is the spirit of the age and for centuries to come. So we need an articulation well in advance of Mr. Jefferson’s,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The purpose of this essay is twofold: To illuminate the purpose of NATO activity in the Balkans. To encourage its leaders and participants. Ground: There are two principles that organize a human community:…
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 Talking about classical idealism. Is there any specific area of Christianity where this sort of theology is prevalent? Could you also explain the connection of metaphysics to idealism. Tillich himself is…
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 He is describing the purpose of theology, and says “European theological orthodoxy,” comparable to American fundamentalism, which combines both “wrongs” of confusing the eternal truth with a current interpretation. What is…
You are trying to lord it over people. Try to rein in your Ashkenazy Arrogance and refrain from these infantile demonstrations of Virility. You are not a yogi. You are an entertainer trying to make a buck. Also, you are someone without anything useful to do in life, as shown by the dates on your…
