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Author Archives: Andrew Stuttaford
1789 and All That
It’s not hard to draw a line between messianic Judaism and (obviously) Christianity and from that on to later millenarian variants such as Marxism, but this review in the New Statesman by the British philosopher John Gray of Forgetfulness: Making … Continue reading
Posted in history, Religion
Tagged Christianity, Communism, French Revolution, Millennial Cults
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Ubi Terror, Ibi Salus
A week or two back, I discussed a review of The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey, a book out in the UK, but not due for release in the US until next year. … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Augustine, Christianity, Religious Persecution, totalitarianism
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Palmyra’s Earlier Attackers
From The Spectator, a review of a new book, The Darkening Age, on Christianity’s early centuries. I haven’t read the book itself (it’s not out in this country until next year), but judging by the review it looks interesting, no … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, ISIS, Monotheism, Suffering as a blessing
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The Transhumanist ‘Threat’
The Jesuits’ America magazine is a somewhat overwrought publication, and a recent article (“Who’s afraid of Transhumanism? (We all should be)”) it ran on the ‘threat’ posed by ‘Transhumanism’ was no exception. If I had to guess, Transhumanism, a fancy word for an … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Suffering as a blessing
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The Attacks in Catalonia: “Blind” Violence?
Cross-posted on the Corner. Pope Francis on last year’s Nice attack (via the National Catholic Register): Pope Francis condemned the attack on Bastille Day Celebrations in France, calling it an act of “blind violence.” While Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the man … Continue reading
Des Moines: Theocrats Busted
The Des Moines Register (my emphasis added): The FBI raided a Catholic Worker House in Des Moines early Friday in search of evidence linked to efforts to sabotage construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. About 30 law enforcement personnel, led by … Continue reading
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Tagged environmentalism, Iowa, Religious Left
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“The worst method of dying, except for all the others”
An extract (published in the latest New Yorker) from Dying: A Memoir, a book written by the late Cory Taylor, written as she contemplated her approaching death from cancer: Yes, I have considered suicide, and it remains a constant temptation. If … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, culture
Tagged assisted suicide, Euthanasia
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CRISPR, Faster
MIT Technology Review: The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology Review has learned. The effort, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov … Continue reading
UFOs and The ‘Religious Mind’
Writing in the New York Times, Clay Routledge notes the interesting, if unsurprising, fact, that someone’s religious instinct doesn’t disappear simply because he or she has rejected ‘established’ religion: Just a couple of decades ago, about 95 percent of Americans … Continue reading
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Tagged God Gene, superstition, UFOs
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Machine Trumps Ghost
It is—time flies—now thirty years since the appearance of The Closing of the American Mind, an anniversary noted by Alexander Riley in The American Conservative. The whole thing is well worth reading, but this passage caught my attention: Some elements … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged Charles Darwin, evolutionary psychology
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