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Shareholding is an evil, even if it makes us rich.
Children contradict all the major anthropological assumptions of liberalism.
D.C. Schindler unpacks the theological meaning of Christianity’s chief political heresy.
We are calling not for less politics, but for more politics.
Postliberals worthy of the name should hope for the end of earthbound politics; of the idolatrous parody of divine sovereignty.
Abortion is an act that decisively realizes liberalism within the family.
The point of almsgiving is not to obtain any result from man, but a reward from God. Almsgiving is one of the least utilitarian things a person can do; a dive into the abyss of uselessness.
The humanists are inhuman, but let us not be taken for fools: their “philosophy” is more materially determined by the stock market than spiritually determined by any insight into the human condition.
I am excited to have more children, largely because I have a lot to do, and after a certain increase in their muscle mass and spiritual faculty, a child can help me to do it.
The legal possibility of abortion trains women and men to swat away the female experience of being in media res, already committed, already loving, already nourishing whether she would or no, and to take on an imitation of prototypically male anxieties: is it really mine? Do I really want it? The very possibility that, after all, I may kill it, may “terminate,” may become not-mother, negates the female into a perverse image of the male—who looks upon a pregnancy from the outside.
The essential thing is not government but what government serves, which preexists and causes it: before we can have a proper government, we need a proper mind, heart, and conscience—those things in which the principles of government exist.
Christianity has always redeemed politics by surpassing it, fulfilling it beyond itself. It defeats violence through peace and not with more powerful violence. This is not to say that Christianity leaves the tyrannies of the world alone. When I say it defeats them, I mean that literally, concretely—Christianity brings tyrants to their knees.
The screen shapes us into secretive people; pornography gives us the secret to keep.
Goliath represents the impulse to put all our hope in man; to stockpile; to amass; to find salvation in the strength of a singular Giant. This is why Goliath is so very big. David represents the Jewish impulse to put all our hope in God. This is why he, David, is so very small.
Gawk at an idea with me, an idea so basic to our thought that its wackiness goes undetected: gawk upon moral progress.
It is stupid to name generations; furthermore, it is tasteless; also, I think it mean-spirited.
The best way to make a baby laugh is to pretend to kill it.
Shareholding is an evil, even if it makes us rich.
“Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory.” This is the cry of the family.
Understanding “political Catholicism” as a species of bossbabery sheds light on the movement as a whole.
Socialism only emerges from the logic of Liberalism.
If “the Church came to assume Roman political forms” it is equally obvious that she then came to discard them.
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America is sinking into pagan practices and beliefs. While Americans may not use the same language as the ancient pagans, John Daniel Davidson believes that the central pagan creed is present: there is no truth, everything is permitted. Liberalism had attempted to create neutral spaces, but as those spaces become more fought over, the only rationale can be one's own power. Dr. Andrew Willard Jones and John Daniel Davidson discuss the roots of a pagan worldview, the extent to which America is pagan, and how Christians should approach the pagan political order.
Everywhere is beige. The same beige houses, the same big box department stores, even the exact same food is served everywhere all across the country. What has this monotone sameness done to produce our cultural moment - one that seems to glorify diversity on the one hand, but ship it out en masse with the other? Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell as they explore our desaturated modern world and why we look to gender for the way out.
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The point of almsgiving is not to obtain any result from man, but a reward from God. Almsgiving is one of the least utilitarian things a person can do; a dive into the abyss of uselessness.