Outline Of A Field Manual For Defeating Chaotics

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   Protect Producers Punish Poachers Terminology The word “chaotics” in this work designates a class of individuals and groups that claims to want welfare and happiness for all but really, really…

CHAOS – Who What Why Are They?

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 Great effort has been expended analyzing the abyss of “progressives,” “leftists,” “liberals,” but with unstable results. To the analytical mind, they behave like the proverbial greased pig, messy to grasp and…

To Building Monasteries

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 Gleichshaltung On 22 January 2010, Kyle-Anne Shiver wrote her followers, among whom am I, in these terms: “… Here is the article, which caused my resignation from American Thinker on the…

The Problem Of Evil: Theological Distinction Between Sin and Sins

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Yesterday Dr. Sanity discussed the problem of evil in an unusual way — not for her but for professional and lay persons generally.  She acknowledges that evil is a concomitant of existence. I offered a series of comments, first referring to a writer…

Roundhead Theocrats: Puritans In The White House And Congress

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 militants occupying the White House, the Congressional Majority Leadership, the liberal arts faculties, the legacy media, Code Pink, ACORN, Daily Kos, and the like are zealots with fanatical, faux-religious fervor.…

Tom Driver On Paul Tillich

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 NOTICE: The following article is Copyrighted by Theology Today. The Tillichian Spell: Memories of a Student Mesmerized in the 1950s Theology Today, Oct 1996 by Tom F. Driver Composing these reminiscences…

Weaknesses Of Liberal Education

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 Liberal Education is compromised by its own two-fold weakness: 1- it lacks internal check on getting full of itself, and 2- in getting full of itself if takes structures of history…

Mission Of The Knights Templar

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 Question: Were not the Knights Templar also tasked with protecting the Holy Grail? Anwer: Not directly. Their main task was keeping open lines of communication. With respect to artifacts, they were…

Military Force and Police Force

Nature and Mission Of These Entities The discussion was whether military force is different in nature and mission from police force. Traditionally these forces are seen as different. The argument put against this traditional understanding was that, since war itself is unacceptable, West Point and the United States Army, the foci of the discussion, are…

Christianity And Denominations

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 Dear Students, The Denominations called Christian have a future as organizations.  Christianity has no future inside them.  Christianity may emerge from the Denominations, in the following ways. First, the sanctuaries may…

Asia Is West, Not East, From America

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Asia is “West” from historical USA “Westerner” point of view. Asia is “East” from historical USA “Easterner” point of view. Western states Americans think west across the Pacific. Eastern states Americans think east (backwards) through Europe. It is a major cultural difference that…

“Religious War” And Pacifism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. There may be some question about this term “religious war.” It is an oxymoron. Religious people are pacifistic. They do not wage war. So there are never any religious wars. However, religious people do have the right of self-defense and the duty to…

The Balkans: A Lesson In Political Philosophy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The purpose of this essay is twofold: To illuminate the purpose of NATO activity in the Balkans. To encourage its leaders and participants. Ground:  There are two principles that organize a human community:…

Swami Stories

In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My western boots in the sea of sandals at Whitefield, Bangalore, India were a delightful sight. I was the only one who didn’t have trouble locating their footgear. When Swami finished speaking with me,…

Three Depositions On Theological Education

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 Deposition  I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…

Implications of Incarnation Theology / A Conversation

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 Christian Scientist and I were discussing the sentence, “Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.”  A conflation of my side of the conversation follows. Reason is a word…