The old standards remain the standards.Fundamentals have not changed, only incidentals. We go here and there looking for God.Truth is, we are ever only looking right at Him. 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…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Small, unserious men and women focus our attention on government rather than where it should be, on governance. They want us to go round and round on who is doing what to whom and why we should favor this partisan over that. When we react to these nefarious…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. You can have a Fiat-Command economy, which does not last, and you can have a Hindu-Christian economy, which does last. You cannot have both. One feels good for a time but never makes you happy. The other feels difficult for a time and makes you happy. You cannot…
As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. This booklet, here in PDF format made from original typescript as preserved in photocopy of the day, dates from 1984. It bears the title Jesus Of Nazareth And God. Arguably this booklet is my favorite writing. I had fun making it and now fun again making PDF files from…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole On 28 February 2005, I posted here under title Response And Reply: The Place Of Religion In The USA. For its comeliness and timeliness, I re-post in full the content of that post: Recently I shared an article, since link-rotted, discussing the 72 virgins promised jihadis, with…
The One Is Indivisible The Truth Is The Whole David R. Graham Christmas is not a Dickensian event. OTOH, apparently Guthrie elected to play the part of Herod, which is a Christmas, and a dramatically post-Christmas, event. So, all to the good to that extent. The Great Leslie asks Lily Olay if she is a…
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA Upon occasion, in human affairs, it becomes necessary to remind the functionaries that they are not proprietors. This observation has reference to that Euro-American mélange of colossal dummies who self-identify as the foreign policy establishment and intelligence community. The following is a hunch. I have no direct or circumstantial evidence to support…
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA MultiCulturalism is to Humanism as Liberation Theology is to Christianity. MultiCulturalism and Liberation Theology are ideologies crafted and marketed by certain overbearing personalities — tyrants they are — to be psychotropic gateway drugs to yet stronger opiating concepts, phrases, and antisocial behaviors, ones that induce mass-dependency on said overbearing personalities. MultiCulturalism and…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Christianity, which creates societies in which people want to live and are willing to endure hardships to reach, and Sanathana Dharma (Hinduism), which not only tolerates but fosters Christianity, form the center of…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I have quoted Tillich on this subject before now. I return to it as a strategic opportunity in view of the grand conflict playing out in front of us, within us, and for…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The self-absorbed preen themselves on, among other things, speaking truth to power. They mean taunting certain among those who wield the penal authority of government. That is, ultimately, shooters. Their perceived allies who wield…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT To start his famed biography of Christopher Columbus, Admiral Of The Ocean Sea, Samuel Eliot Morison establishes the context of Columbus’ career: Europe dispirited, dissolute, bored and generally lacking in get up and go.…
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 Robert E. Lee’s mother wrote at length once to her sister, concluding with the observation that her letter was long because she did not have time to be brief. I feel…
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 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest-home; All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin; God, our Maker doth provide For our wants to be supplied;…
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 very people who are trying to use that record to justify billions of dollars in payments to themselves. That’s the gist of it. But don’t forget the sex. Wherever…
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 Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ruminations on religionless Christianity I shared recently with a clerical friend. The friend replied: I like his thought that the Church stands not where the human powers give…
