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…
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…
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 The a-and anti-religious press around the world is making a fuss over treatment of the Koran by United States military personnel guarding Islamist prisoners at detention/prison facilities controlled by the United…
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?…
