Un-Common Core

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Five Human Values   Ginni Thomas interviews Jane Robbins: Part One Part Two Truth in American Education   From 1994: Customized Optional Program of Education   Update 1: Upsurge in homeschooling. Update…

War Against Dead Religions

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 The Levant today we see war between three dead religions: Judaism, Socialism and Islam. In Europe today we see war between five dead religions: Christianity, Fascism, Communism, Judaism and Islam. In the North America…

Christianity Without Religion … Beyond Religion?

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 Bonhoeffer’s famous phrase, religionless Christianity (religionsloses Christentum), can be taken in one or perhaps both of two ways.  It can mean Christianity without religion.  It can mean Christianity beyond religion.  Here is…

Legalism Is Laws Without Law

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Robert Stacy McCain, an unusually bright figure, posted yesterday about Crazy People, Crazy Times.  He sent me into two days of study circling a unique figure named Lindsey with the internet handle, Heart.  Stacy’s post…

Concupiscence

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 Yesterday and today, and probably tomorrow, as I look over the scene, I see concupiscence.  Oh, several other nameable phenomena as well.  Fascism certainly, treason surely, moral and political disunity for sure.  But…

Anti-Semitism/Anti-Zionism

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Referencing the great Christopher Hitchens, the equally elegant Professor William A. Jacobson posted today on this subject and I commented four times, thrice discursively, as follow: ” … the common enemy of humanity and of civilization …” Correct, it is not anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism. It…

Some People Just Want To See The World Burn

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The phenomenon of non-discussion discussion has long intrigued one.  How, one asks, does one describe the phenomenology of the phenomenon? The phenomenon is well-known.  X says something to Y, statement or query, and Y responds with a non sequitur, a moral equivalence,…

Clang!

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Fascists Want Repeal of Iraq War Authorization U.S. preparing options to defeat ISIL Kurds ask help.  Fascists say, “No!” AMDG – VICTORY Wake, Awake, For Night Is Flying, University Of Redlands Choir, Feast Of Lights, 1963

The World’s War Against Caliphism

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 Andrew “Skip” Bacevich, West Point Class of 1969, writes lucidly on what he wishes deemed America’s War For The Greater Middle East. I commend close reading of that essay by Skip.  To the…

The New World Disorder – Good Job, Girls

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 This is to state the obvious.  And the well-known. This, however, is not obvious and far from well-known:  The New World Disorder follows on the perversion of Christian Morality from the…

Templar Nostalgia

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 Magnificat, Anglican Chant, William Crotch, University Of Redlands Chapel Singers From Glenn Reynolds, no less.  I commented: The Templars and other warrior monastics were monastics, Christian orders with a military mission. Templars…

Question Regarding Media And Bureaucracy

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 Are the forces of sanity out-gunned and out-maneuvered in the USA? Media and bureaucracy are committed to self-expansion at the expense of citizen’s and businesses’ freedom and USA sovereignty.  These are…

Progressive Paradise?

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 Progressives see prison, a gated community, as for the not-they, not they.  Progressives would be happy if everyone else lived in a prison or, better yet, was dead.  Actually,…

Damno Ecclesiis

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 condemn the churches: For perverting Christian Charity for political and financial self-aggrandizement: The Episcopal Church United Methodist Church and here The Roman Catholic Church and Here and Here and Here With regard to immigration,…

Blackmail?

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, Three days ago Ed Driscoll at PJMedia essayed on Cloward-Piven Everywhere. A commenter opines that Occupy White House is under blackmail by Russia — which would be the FSB — to maintain oil prices. The thought intrigued me and I commented there…

Coolidge

From Steven Hayward at Power Line, quoting President Calvin Coolidge: Under this weight [of ever larger government] the former accuracy of administration breaks down. The government has not at its disposal a supply of ability, honesty, and character necessary for the solution of all these problems, or an executive capacity great enough for their perfect…