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A Hedonistic Heretical Sect

A Hedonistic Heretical Sect

“Dante speaks of the ‘highest love’ that built the walls of hell. We shudder at the medieval grimness. The opposite and more dangerous extreme is to lavish what Bousset calls a ‘murderous pity’ upon human nature and, and under cover of promoting love, be ready to...

All the News That’s Fit to Print?

All the News That’s Fit to Print?

This morning (11/20/2020) I reluctantly spent $3.00 for today’s New York Times to see if it would offer up its usual anti-Trump take, this time on the plausible case made yesterday by President Trump’s attorneys about voter fraud. It did. An unbiased headline would...

Thoughts for Today

Thoughts for Today

Thoughts for today: 1. Today, November 10, in the aftermath of our tumultuous and still undetermined Presidential Election, is the 227th anniversary of the bloody French Revolution’s Fête de la Raison in which radicals transformed France’s churches into Temples of...

All in the Family?

All in the Family?

All in the Family?“Though with a scornful wonder, Men see her sore oppressed,By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distressed: -- Charles Wesley Pope Francis’ recent and shocking endorsement of same-sex civil unions encourages a movement within the Church that began at...

Are You Your Own Golden Calf?

Are You Your Own Golden Calf?

A couple of quotations from the Morning Prayer office for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity speak to any number of heresies now raging in various churches, foremost among which are heresies about sex and marriage. These heretical theologies play out in any number of...

Early Voting

Early Voting

The latest fad, the latest form of mob hysteria, is Early Voting. It is right up there with the Beatles, Elvis, yo-yos, kale, pet rocks, viral videos, merlot, rosé, the Twist, streaking, Salem Witch Trials, and Beanie Babies (most expensive, Large Wallace, $600k)....

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