Theological Geography

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. For at least thirty (30) years before 11SEP01, the matter of relations between the religions, especially major ones as measured by number of adherents, commanded my penetrating attention.  I always knew no fundamental difference separated them.  11SEP01 compelled the observation, already known but not so picturesquely, that mine…

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 More conservative bellyaching, running to mommy’s skirt.  Education is inherently private.  And it is about study, not speech.  Less rather than more federal activity in education is the mature preference. Free speech…

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…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The celebrated but not infallible David Horowitz has produced a remarkable essay on the subject of freedom as the unifying standard of opposition to the tyrannical pretensions of progressives, aka Fascists.  Central observation: equality is of individuals before God and the law, not of…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The bane of religion is the impulse to think it demands something, anything, prescribes or proscribes something, anything. Religion is the gift of freedom to those mired in the endless cycle of knowing good and evil, a “knowledge” which is a curse. Religion…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The drive for religious freedom is stronger than the drives for economic, political and intellectual freedom.  It is stronger because it is more fundamental.  It lies closest to the heart. The drive for religious freedom produced the United States of America.  It…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, OUTLINE  Assumptions The Principle of Identity and the Functions of Spirit The Relation of Religion, Culture and Morality Critical Analysis and Political Creativity The Reason, Nature and Resolution of Religion Wars Existential Base of Religious Common Point…

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 SECTION I Overview I reject parsing religions into denominations or sects and, ultimately, I reject parsing religion itself into “religions.” Religion is religion, no matter now denominated.  There is one God. …

Recently I shared an article, since link-rotted, discussing the 72 virgins promised jihadis, with some fellow West Point Parents. Among several responses, I received this one: As a Muslim I find the joke about the virgins and Allah distasteful. Also, this article seems to paint a very rosy picture of what is happening in Iraq. REMEMBER,…

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Bishops, popes, prelates and monks keeping ordaining and consecrating catamites, priests dismissing doctrine, pastors producing personality cults, trysting parlors and entertainments, rabbis hawking vestigial customs as unconditional concerns, clerics forbidding education and inciting war or condemning self-defense … these are signs of advanced…

By Mary Graham “There has to be unity with God before there can be any goodness.” Martin Luther This is why Augustine could say, “Love God and do what you want.” When one is in unity with God, and then only, all is goodness and that is He. Without unity with God there is no…