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 Confusion to Commies, in all their guises! We Americans are a strange, extraordinary lot. Very hurly-burly, rough, profane, sentimental, compassionate, fierce, independent, inventive, recognizing no titles of nobility, melting pot-ing…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, 1- White, heteronormative patriarchy. 2- Social, ecological and economic capitalism. 3- Christian moral and intellectual prestige. 4- Criminal and civil RICO suits against provocateurs. 5- Tort reform that does not aggrandize attorneys or subvert national sovereignty. 6- Personal, state and national self-defense policy and…
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…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Two antithetical grand national strategic frames of reference, Hillary and Angelo: EMPATHY: Hillary here, here and here. STRENGTH: Angelo here and in PDF here. Thanks much to CRB, and of course, Angelo. Sane people have been saying a grand national strategic goal,…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, LEARNING IN FERGUSON, SERVING IN NEW YORK Dear Union Community, This morning I was greeted with an avalanche of notes from many of you who protested these last two nights. Some of you arrested, others of you exhausted, and most of you…
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 In February of 1966, on a beautiful, cold, sunny day, snow on the ground, I visited Reinhold Niebuhr and his wife Ursula — English-born and Professor of Early Christian History at…
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…
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 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, Full-Spectrum US Armed Forces operations comprise two aspects: Combat Warrior and Civil Affairs Warrior. Because occupation of an enemy country is the reason for war, and because land-control is the Army mission, US Army is the management center of both aspects of Full-Spectrum US…
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 Life is a Power of Being, not an accident of history, not a chance operation. Religionless Christianity is not a condition imposed on the churches by secular powers. It is the…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen. Travelled three states today: MN, WI and MI. Trivia: Both WI and MI have an Iron Lake County and an Iron Lake Town in their Iron Lake County. While fueling friend, a young mother fueling her friend eyed me photographing Lake Bemidji across…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen. BNSF has become my dancing partner across the fruited plain. Tonight again we are shacking up together, closer than ever when she wants to blow her horn. I have grown accustomed to her face, her sound, her … airy indifference. Here she…
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 How would a servant of the nation sound who told the American people and the world — urbi et orbi — in a simple voice from a large stage the truth about the…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT BLUF: Americans need and can form Civil Defense Battalions attached to their municipal and county law enforcement agencies. This is not a new idea. It has been done before, and successfully. The remit…
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 Because of lefties and caliphists lefties installed in US government starting 20 January 2009, where are this teacher and her students now? How happy they are Americans gave them a life and protected…
