As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Between February and April 2019, I produced a five-part series of posts entitled A Theology Of The Army. These are they: Introduction Liberation Perfection Absolution Conclusion The mind is made of the warp and woof of wishes. So the first thing to be conquered is the demon of…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT All problems are susceptible to theological analysis, and all analyses are theological in nature. The Army is a theological enterprise. Every activity, from thinking to kinetics, is a theological enterprise. Everything an Army…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I have noted before this that The Maid of Orleans led her Soldiers into the Confessional before she led them onto the Battlefield. Augustine remarks that the greatest of saints dies a penitent.…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A liberated person is justified freely to perfect their liberation, to make it ever more secure against loss, and to discover, flourish, and proliferate their intentions and skills. In theology this is called…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT For centuries, The Christian Liturgical Year as practiced in The Latin [Western] Church has followed the phenomenology of battle: 1- Into the Confessional (Advent) 2- Battle Preparation (Christmas) 3- Appearance of Battle Commander…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Purpose My purpose, duty, desire is to support, foster, honor the U.S. Army by bringing, moving, pivoting the theological content, component, spirit of civilization, history, country to support the U. S. Army’s existence…
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 Now there IS “state-sponsored terrorism.” Actually, there has been all along. And it was not terrorism, it was — and is — Caliphism. al-Qaeda is marginalized by a truly able scholar/cleric enabled by a…
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 Responding to this. A parallel phenomenon exists in theology: the only persons who can legitimately do theology and reform the churches are those currently on the front line religiously, meaning, the genuine…
The aphorism literary form always has appealed to me as suitable for what I want to say or write. The reason why, I am not sure. The Biblical Prophetic couplet, possibly. Shakespeare, possibly. Pascal and Wittgenstein, possibly. Sathya Sai Baba, probably. Strictly and loosely, over the years I repaired to the aphorism literary form, under…
The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, a correlate of the Primakov Doctrine, the root of Russian Foreign Policy. We start with the most recent: By dumbing down your schools, you have degraded your own security, military ability, and even moral courage and spiritual serenity. A consequence of Nominalist, Positivist,…
The foregoing is the root of USA Foreign Policy, and as such, a correlate of the Primakov Doctrine, the root of Russian Foreign Policy. Andrei Martyanov writes: It is not just about manufacturing capacity — in theory the US may build, in the next 10+ years, some facilities to increase production of 155-mm shells or…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Really, only competent, refined military professionals, engineers, and their knowledgeable, competent sympathizers…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Each war represents an isolated case, requiring an understandingof its own particular…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. This direct, simple truth judges statecraft. God loves all equally. Statesmen abide…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. Russia has no global hegemonic intentions. D-R UniParty and CCP do have…
Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. The problem is spiritual, not electoral. 2010 did not tame the beast.…
