Theological Geography

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Science separated from religion is an array of viciously idolatrous cults presided over by The Priests of Baal (which is to say, genocidals). Religion separated from science is an array of grimly tyrannical regimes presided over by The Priests of Moloch (which is…

Christians are Little Christs. Mohammedans are Little Mohammeds. Buddhists are Little Buddahs. Zoroastrians or Pharsis are Little Zoroasters. Hindus are Little Sivas or Ramas. Bahai’s are Little Baha’u’llahs. Jews are Little Davids. Taoists are Little Lau-Tzus. Confucians are Little Confuciuses. etc. God is Being in the intense (para, in Greek), demonstrative sense (Goethe, in German, seiend)…

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…

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 SECTION I Overview I reject parsing religions into denominations or sects and, ultimately, I reject parsing religion itself into “religions.” Religion is religion, no matter now denominated.  There is one God. …

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 Christianity is religionless. It is not a religion. Christianity is a Faith, a Faith in, over, under, around and through Jesus of Nazareth as the Christ of history and history’s subordinate…

Recently I shared an article, since link-rotted, discussing the 72 virgins promised jihadis, with some fellow West Point Parents. Among several responses, I received this one: As a Muslim I find the joke about the virgins and Allah distasteful. Also, this article seems to paint a very rosy picture of what is happening in Iraq. REMEMBER,…

Religion is the self-transcendence of life in the dimension of spirit. Judaism is not a religion, it is not a legal system, it is not an ethnicity, it is not a liturgy, it is not even a philosophy. It is an array of attitudes, catastrophic ones. What good comes from paying attention to those attitudes?…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Bishops, popes, prelates and monks keeping ordaining and consecrating catamites, priests dismissing doctrine, pastors producing personality cults, trysting parlors and entertainments, rabbis hawking vestigial customs as unconditional concerns, clerics forbidding education and inciting war or condemning self-defense … these are signs of advanced…

Modern American society, which is the Church and the State, is a veneer of sentimentality on a base of Pelagianism. The rejection of universals as phenomena of experience is destructive, ultimately, of the possibility of experience itself. Nominalism is self-destructive. AMDG

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT There is only one religion, the religion of love. In mankind’s most ancient and only universal Scripture, Veda, this religion is called Sanathana Dharma. In English these words approximate to the…

The central complaint against the Administration of President George W. Bush is that it does not support the religion developed by faculties of colleges and universities for forty years, and taken by them to be state-sponsored because they made and compel it: the Religion of Hyphens … AKA, sex-and-race-based politics. This Administration takes a phenomenological…

By Mary Graham “There has to be unity with God before there can be any goodness.” Martin Luther This is why Augustine could say, “Love God and do what you want.” When one is in unity with God, and then only, all is goodness and that is He. Without unity with God there is no…

  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 Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is a Transcendentalist, line of Thoreau/Longfellow/Emerson, etc. He’s not a ‘Pragmatist’ as that term is generally used. He is far ahead of James and Dewey, who…