Reflections and Rant for the End of Days
Posted in Propaganda on Aug 31st, 2007
Say hello to Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, who was fast asleep when the Iraq war shattered his life forever. A US missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and without both his arms.
“It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. [...]
Posted in Fascism on Aug 31st, 2007
The classroom assignment was called “All About Me.” Elementary school children were to “identify individual interests and learn about others.” But when his turn came, little Wesley Busch was told he could not read from his favorite book, the Bible, because it was considered “proselytizing” and “promoting a specific religious point of view.” The teacher instead [...]
Posted in Theological on Aug 30th, 2007
Suffering is an enigma for many people. Nietzsche is reported to have said, “if we have our own “why” of life, we can bear almost any “how.” The heart seeks an answer to “Why?” in order to endure the inevitable pathways of pain and trouble, but suffering that is apparently purposeless is maddening and vexatious.
I am [...]
Posted in Fascism, Philosophy on Aug 29th, 2007
The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)
What’s the shtuss about Hegelian Dialectic?
It’s been said that modern politics operates on the basis of the so-called “Hegelian Dialectic,” a method of social engineering based on a rather dismal theory about how precious little people can actually [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Aug 28th, 2007
(This comes from an apologetics paper I once wrote.)
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) takes issue with the modernist approach of alienating the subject from the world, but does so from a different perspective than Heidegger (although there are some similarities of approach, especially since Heidegger was influenced by Kierkegaard). Although he has been accused of being fideistic, I think [...]
Posted in Philosophy on Aug 28th, 2007
(This is an excerpt from an apologetics paper I once wrote.)
Martin Heidegger (1899-1976) sought for a new way of considering the “whatness” of things by asking the question, “What does it mean for something - anything - to exist at all?” Not this particular thing, nor that (i.e., the realm of the sciences and traditional metaphysics); not [...]
Posted in Theological on Aug 28th, 2007
Within the Christian life, there is an inherent tension between the inner and the outer, the “in” but not “of” this world. The battle for holiness must be fought on both fronts, and there are deadly seductions in both directions. Of the two, the European pietistic tradition has made the inner life of priority: the [...]
Posted in Chazak on Aug 27th, 2007
“I was with you in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling…that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God…I determined to know nothing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified” (I Corinthians 2:3, 5, 2).
The greatest teachers are, as Kierkegaard pointed out long ago, [...]
Posted in Theological on Aug 27th, 2007
According to BBC correspondent Justin Webb, ‘Nobody spends more time on his knees than George W. Bush.’
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What a fascinating subject, nu? If this supposedly “Christian” president believes that Christians, Jews, and Muslims all worship the “same god,” then he is either hopelessly unfamiliar [...]
Posted in Propaganda on Aug 27th, 2007
One of the first modern, systematic genocides occurred against Armenian Christians back in 1915. Turkish Muslims perpetrated the usual crimes against humanity, relegating Armenian’s to dhimmi status (along with Jews and other minorities). For more information, see this.
Adolf Hitler (y’sh) knew of the atrocities against Armenians and coldly understood that the worlds’ short-term memory would [...]