“But, like the Oedipus Complex, Bauhaus architecture, moral relativism, contraception, deficit spending, the automobile, and cubism, saturation bombing was used as the twentieth century’s revenge on the cultural legacy of the West. It was an attempt to use the power of the West in order to destroy the West.” [E. Michael Jones, Living Machines (San …
You Can Say That Again
“The second thing, to wit, what order and manner is to be observed in the following of public scandals, is not easily determinable, there being such variety of cases in which the Lord exercises the prudence and wisdom of his church officers” (Durham, 53).
Machines for Living In
“By the time the rhetoric of modern architecture had been assembled into a modern ideology—let’s say by 1925—the form and the structure of the modern apartment, which was to replace the more traditional one-family dwelling as the preferred dwelling of socialist man, had become full of sociological meaning. Instead of man’s home being his castle, …
Private Discretion
“Scandals that are so circumstanced, and they only, are to be taken notice of by church judicatories as the proper object of church discipline. Hence we may see a great difference between offense as it is the object of private discretion, and as it is the object of church discipline” (Durham, p. 50, emphasis mine).
Credenda Through the Ears
If I might, I would like to draw your attention to your immediate left, where you will at first think you are seeing double, only up and down, not left and right. But the Credenda cover underneath the first one is actually the image for Credenda audio, a new feature around these parts. A closer …
The Heart of the Problem
“Daix here puts his finger on a pattern that will recur throughout Picasso’s life. Realism is the visual language of love; when the affair turns sour, Picasso turns away from the object and reverts to Cubist distortions, which convey simultaneously lust, rage, and the desire to mutilate and destroy” [E. Michael Jones, Degenerate Moderns (San …
What Breeds Offenses
“Tenaciousness and self-willedness often breed offenses, and continually stand in the way of removing them; and although there is nothing more ordinary in a time of offenses that that, to wit, for men to stand to their own judgment and opinion as if it were a piece of liberty and conscience not to condescend in …
Post Fourth Meditation
“Faith exhibits itself in works, and above all in fireworks.” — G.K. Chesterton This is from an essay entitled ‘Cardboard Noses’ in the November 25, 1905 issue of the Illustrated London News. HT: Mark Beauchamp
Flipping Through the Doctor’s Magazines
We do many things in this service through rote repetition – we follow the drill. Contrary to the views of many in the contemporary church, there is no necessary spiritual death in this. But contrary to the view of certain diehard traditionalists, there is no automatic life in it either. We serve God through faith. …
Some Arguments Against Evolution
“It [evolution] gives us almost everything the imagination craves – irony, heroism, vastness, unity in multiplicity, and a tragic close. It appeals to every part of me except my reason.” C.S. Lewis Arguments against the theory of evolution can be classified into four broad categories. We may call them particular evidences concerning questions of fact …