Theological Geography

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Tactically, US operations in Iraq differ typologically from those in Vietnam, in and of themselves and with respect to the force conducting them. The US Army today is nothing like what it was in the 1960s-70s. Nor does it fight as it…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Reprinting this June 2006 essay in Commentary, in full, below: The Real Iraq By Amir Taheri Spending time in the United States after a tour of Iraq can be a disorienting experience these days. Within hours of arriving here, as I can attest from…

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…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The letter from Qom. This is a formal war warning order or ultimatum, given in certainty of victory for decisive action that is fully planned, with start date. It is thought by its author, an assassin posing as a clergyman, to be dictated…

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: Great to hear someone is publishing spot on this issue. Quick response: both McCarthy’s thesis and what he represents as the elite’s (including President Bush therewith) are accurate as…

Asked what I thought of UBL’s latest diatribe. I said he sounds desperate. This is to elaborate on that observation. The massive and successful French resistance to Chirac’s effort to amend the labor laws to permit employers to hire Arabs in place of French and the massive Dutch anti-Arab response to the murder of van…

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 prophetic/theological condemnation of Koranolatry and, in the faux-Christian orbit, its analog, Bibliolatry, is required.  The issue is an ancient one: idolatry, the result of the constant impulse in man to…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The truth is the whole and journalists and scientists neither relate to nor relate it. “Journalism” and “Science” today are factories retailing personal prejudices. Participants in those retail activities who transcend them are no longer journalists or scientists. They are theologians participating in…

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 Three points come to mind regarding this: 1- Islam sprang from the prophets of Christianity, mostly desert dwellers, as a classic Semitic iconoclastic or puritan movement against superstitions associated with images…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, You ask why Christian leaders have not condemned the editorial cartoons published in Denmark four months (!) ago and subsequently. The answer is: because Christian leaders, to include the political ones, publicly label and even condemn their heretics…

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. …

Some thoughts: 1- President George W. Bush is going to be regarded in the same breath as Lincoln and Washington. Their mantle rests on his shoulders. I trust him. My only criticism of President Bush is that he has not put the country on war footing, as during WWII. 2- There is no requirement that…

This from the end of a Martin Peretz article, no longer available, in a Commentary chain of articles identifies what I think is the key issue: What the Bush Doctrine has not dealt with is the issue that has been forced, albeit very reluctantly, upon Europe. It is not only a matter of sleeper cells. There is the more…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, You know, the more I think about the behavior of partisan Democrats, the more I think that their error is not really in what they say — although there is plenty of that, but it is discussable, if discussion were possible —…