"The words are violence crowd is right about the power of language. Words can be vile, disgusting, offensive, and dehumanizing. They can make the speaker worthy of scorn, protest, and blistering criticism. But the difference between civilization and barbarism is that civilization responds to words with words. Not knives or guns or fire. That is the bright … Continue reading Ideological Amazon & Punk Nazis
Tag: religion
Losing My Religion
"Nowadays the market for religion is in flux, perhaps more than ever. On the demand side, churches in the Western world are suffering from the global secularisation that began long before the pandemic. Even in America, the most patent example of a rich country that has thrived alongside religion (some say because of it), the … Continue reading Losing My Religion
The Dead’s Goat
"But don’t pity the dead. They have time on their mouldering hands, and all they do is think of ways to vex us. They watch we living go about our dirty business—lying and cheating; penis-pumping; pirating pop music—and smile, amused, cool, indifferent, they’re like high-functioning heroin addicts, or cats. You want to get their attention, … Continue reading The Dead’s Goat
Understanding QAnon’s Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media Consumption
"A nontrivial 15% of Americans agree with the sweeping QAnon allegation that “the government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation,” while the vast majority of Americans (82%) disagree with this statement. Republicans (23%) are significantly more likely than … Continue reading Understanding QAnon’s Connection to American Politics, Religion, and Media Consumption
Two Religions
"There are two religions in the world the religion of being right and the religion of being in love, and you can’t be a member of both at the same time."—Garrett Bucks quoting his pastor in an interview with Anne Helen Petersen, "when you realize you're on the wrong side." Substack. October 22, 2020. Advice … Continue reading Two Religions
Abdiel’s Party
"In my case, I found that my interest was most vividly caught by the meaning of the temptation-and-fall theme. Suppose that the prohibition on the knowledge of good and evil were an expression of jealous cruelty, and the gaining of such knowledge an act of virtue? Suppose the Fall should be celebrated and not deplored? … Continue reading Abdiel’s Party
When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas
"'Don’t get chuffed-up and fill the play with anger, which attacks on your work may have generated; part of the strategy of the enemies of art is to create toxic environments in which the art, even if on display, can’t be properly received,' the letter read in part. 'Trust in the play, in your work, … Continue reading When ‘Angels in America’ Came to East Texas
Seder-Masochism
https://vimeo.com/263398514 Nine Paley is the artist behind Sita Sings the Blues, previously mentioned on this blog back in 2017.
Silent Worship in a Quaker Meeting House (5 min.)
—Silent worship in a Quaker meeting house where only the fire in the stove is heard on Aeon.
Princeton Theological Seminary Library
More than 70,000 religious texts digitalized, such as a Zulu hymnal, the Mahabharata, the Coptic version of the New Testament, etc. https://archive.org/details/Princeton
Embassy of the Free Mind
Eventually, the Embassy of the Free Mind will consist of digital copies of the core collection of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica of the The Ritman Library — which is ~5,000 early printed books and manuscripts in the fields of Hermetica, Alchemy, Mysticism, Rosicrucians, Gnosis & Western Esotericism, Kabbalah and other "free thinkers". The first 1,500 books are already … Continue reading Embassy of the Free Mind
Larry Wall on Role of Religion
"Role of Religion? by Anonymous Cowdog I remember reading at some point that you are a Christian, and there have been suggestions that some of your early missionary impulses (a desire to do good, help others) are perhaps part of the zeal you have put into Perl over the years. Preferring a scientific view, I … Continue reading Larry Wall on Role of Religion
Fewer Opinions
"We have a staggering arrogance in our own belief. That can be tempered by not being 100% certain; by being provisional. No matter what the debate is, very few people have the modesty to suspend judgement on a whole range of things; most intelligent people have an opinion and are expected to have an opinion … Continue reading Fewer Opinions
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