Christianity And Socialism

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 Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ruminations on religionless Christianity I shared recently with a clerical friend. The friend replied: I like his thought that the Church stands not where the human powers give…

The Rev. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr

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 Mr. Swaim, Thank you for your essay in The Washington Free Beacon on Reinhold Niebuhr.  Your implication is accurate: there is nothing at the center of it.  Rheiny himself admitted that,…

CandyGram For Mongo

In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, When his minions look out the White House’s windows, what do they see?  They see Mongo, who will have feelings for Sheriff Bart — as whom they fancy their boss, The Fraud, and themselves — deserving a CandyGram. Last week…

Fruitcakes Petrify The People, Needlessly

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 Fruitcakes do not want to be understood.  They do not want to be accepted.  They want to command.  That want of fruitcakes impels the dread of danger, the feeling of loss, the fear of…

Why Adwaitha Hermitage

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Big Science Is Broken.  See the last paragraph.  That is exactly what I did, only, I had no grant, had to self-support, which was hard but doable.  But the same phenomenon this author remarks in re science existed…

Cardinal Marx

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Cardinal Marx — an apposite surname! — has been reading Jim Pike as a how-to manual — as Pike intended — rather than a cautionary tale, which he really is. Following The Episcopal Church down the path of legalistic humanism no doubt appeals to…

Proposed: US Constitutional Amendment XXVIII: The Freedom And Religion Amendment

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 inability of the US Constitution to protect religion from profanization and demonization and therefore society from hustlers and demoniacs claiming the authority of religion — because everyone then knew, well…

Thin Scholarship

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Thin scholarship does in anyone who sallies forth relying on it.   I blame Christian clergy and, especially, monastics for this state of affairs. They are the ones who should have the depth of knowledge and moral courage to have taught their…

My Last Sermon: Christianity Free Of Religion

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 am an American Anglican of Scots, Scots-Irish, German Alsatian and French Huguenot descent.  I have been a Presbyterian and a Lutheran.  I grew up in a Community Church and bear…

Let The Churches Regain Moral Authority

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 Moral authority derives from moral courage.  The churches lack moral authority because they lack moral courage.  They are storefronts for socialist political movements.  Can the churches regain moral authority, and if…

Christianity Without Religion … Beyond Religion?

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 Bonhoeffer’s famous phrase, religionless Christianity (religionsloses Christentum), can be taken in one or perhaps both of two ways.  It can mean Christianity without religion.  It can mean Christianity beyond religion.  Here is…

USA Grand National Strategic Objective, Strategy And Tactics — Take One

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 Binding together power and freedom is the grand national strategic objective.  Binding together power and freedom is also the strategy and the tactics for achieving the grand national strategic objective.  Grand national…

The Churches Hemorrhage Members Because They Went Pacifist

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Alert: In May of 2015, I became aware of indications (and here, here, and here) that Liberation Theology is a disinformation active measure of the KGB … and, one presumes, its continuation under the name FSB.  I am inclined to credit these indications.  Therefore, although…

Reparations?!

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, They owe us reparations for their being assholes.  And in the same way, here is how to solve the problem that is California.  And how about getting ahead of the little devils’ lawfare by cultivating firearm education in USA home, secondary and post-secondary…

Hommage à

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Valmiki — Longfellow — Jeffers Parmenides — Heraclitus — Pythagoras Jesus the Christ — Paul — Jerome Augustine — Benedict and Scholastica — Francis and Clare Adi Shankara — Teresa — Palestrina Bach — Kant — Goethe Hegel — Vivekananda — Leo…

Re-Forming Western Civilization (The Latin Church), In Partes Tres

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   Out With Political Science – In With Political Philosophy Strategic Goal And Posture: Vigilant Quiet Foreign And Domestic Policies To Implement Vigilant Quiet Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit Out With Political…