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…
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 Since the late 1960s, at least, I have thought that the central vexation of the era is the question of authority, and specifically, the location of authority. Here is a round-up…
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 collision attacks and attempted attack or attacks of 11 September 2001, that is. Bless their pee-prickin’ little blaspheming beaks and ballooning stomachs. Here are three discussions of the US Federal Executive’s…
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 boys at Power Line are making excellent work chewing over the phenomenology of so-called-Islam in light of its recrudescence this week in Gay Paree. To this post today by Scott…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Interest in the human form, male and female, is natural and normal. The human is one form comprising two parts, the unity of a dualism. The parts mutually attract, which occasions their unity. So what occurs…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Theologians and clergy have been preaching from pop culture rather than to it. For this reason world politics are at a mess. Pop culture is Manichaean: it revels in sensuality and sanctimony simultaneously. This means it is suicidal. What should theologians and clergy say…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT On 11 September 2001, Saddam Hussein, Usama Bin Laden (and here) and Khalid Sheik Mohammed were able to get through American defenses to commit the most fearsome, brutal and lethal attack on the US Homeland…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A thought has been running through my mind of late: many, high and low, are using free speech to kill free speech. That is, they are using free speech to hide or override truth. If free speech is not directed at truth…
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 think there has been made a cleavage conceptually between national security and national sovereignty. I hear an implied assumption from D.C. chirpers and Poison Ivy League faculty that USA can…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, “Do you realize that every last one of the many disasters that has befallen this nation in the last half-century can be traced right back here to the banks of the Charles River?“ Call it the Poison Ivy League. Fundamental transformation means eliminate…
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…
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 For a number of years — probably since around 1997 — my mind has exercised on the related matters of nationhood, strategy and war. A not inconsiderable anthology of essays and…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Americans have said they want to be Americans and not world-citizens under one hegemonic totalism comprising Poison Ivy League elitists and their minions. Americans are happy having their own sovereignty and want and 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 God (mysterium) both attracts (fascinosum) and repels (tremendum). He is both sweet and terrifying. To experience God as both at once is to experience The Holy. In general, Protestant and Reformed…
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 Prologue The concept of imperialism — and its related concept, colonialism — begs rethinking and re-appreciation. The current innuendo regarding imperialism has it a bad thing. But is it, and do…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Today RAMANAM and I trotted from Billings, MT to Anaconda, MT. Anaconda is a bit off I-90 but I came here, I thought, for what appeared in Yelp to be an interesting motel: The Grizzly Den Motel. It is as advertised and more.…
