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Wealth, Christ, Romney, Mormonism, and the 47 Percent the President Shouldn’t Be Caring About.

18-Sep-12

purchase neurontin canada Sometimes I do think that Christianity’s preaching of poverty is a vice, which has broken people like me – that I will never be right, never be happy, never know what is is to be loved or to enjoy human life, because I have been exposed to the message of Christ.  I look on Protestantism […]

“This is the source of our problem: our leaders, our institutions.”

28-Oct-11

http://iccpaix.org/2020/07/17/caught-in-the-act-an-interpretation-of-john-8 A decent piece – it gets better as you go along – on the growing inequality in America that has made politicians rich paid servants of the rich.  And indirectly a rebuke of Obama, who has no obvious relevance to this problem at all. Between 1979 and 2006, middle-class Americans saw their annual incomes after […]

Ugh.

04-Feb-11

This kind of stuff gets my inner Robespierre rolling.  $70 billion?  This is an estimate, of course, but apparently it’s a good enough estimate to make the news.  With all due respect to Christopher Hitchens’ intellect, the universe is not rationally coherent unless it finds some way to avenge itself in some horrible way on […]

“Jesus was poor so we could be rich.”

29-Nov-09

Andrew Sullivan takes on, in few words, the “Prosperity Gospel” – the Bad News – and gives some real spiritual teaching. It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while Jesus demanded total poverty, fetishizes family while Jesus left his and urged his followers to abandon wives, husbands and children, champions politics while Jesus […]

The End of Books II: The Greenwich Expedition.

04-Dec-08

            After my previous book expedition, I still had seven boxes of books which had been purged from the Richmond Hill collection.  These were the dregs of the dregs – the kind of books that are required in college courses, cost a great deal of money, are turned into new editions in a few years, […]