tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post3805896337284684941..comments2023-12-02T06:33:50.847-08:00Comments on Notes from a Common-place Book: Variations on "Situation Hopeless, But Not Serious"Terry (John)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-88731496839231238562007-11-26T14:10:00.000-08:002007-11-26T14:10:00.000-08:00I agree with the post - as an outsider, of course....I agree with the post - as an outsider, of course. I see an enourmous overlap with the Apartheid South Africa I grew up in: The aims of the state, and the aims of the church (in this case, most Dutch Reformed, but also pentecostal and others) were virtually the same. During my school years, the curriculum was Christian-National Education and as the joke went, much more national than Christian. <BR/><BR/>If you were Christian, you were expected to vote for the National Party, otherwise you were a liberal sell-out, of doubtful faith, and probably a closet Communist. <BR/><BR/>The parallel are there, albeit in different degrees. The church is to be a prohet to Ceasar, whether it suits Ceasar or not.Magotty Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039164409659890130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-67738234396583871252007-11-24T09:37:00.000-08:002007-11-24T09:37:00.000-08:00Western European Civilization went off the rails w...Western European Civilization went off the rails when the Karling Franks (the ascendant Germanic tribe in the ruins of the Old West Roman Empire) decided to the canonize Latin-Only Theology and anathematize the consensus patrum for political purposes -- some sort of basis to call the surviving East Roman Empire heretical. From this point on, the Germanic tribes that eventually formed the Western European nation states followed the Karling Frank lead in religion and hence culture -- which inexorably lead to the Renaissance, "Enlightenment," and the nominally Christian secularization of Far-Western Civilization.<BR/><BR/>In short, if we want to get back on the rails, we need to behind the symptoms of decline to that cause -- get back behind the Great Schism, which happens to be the expressly stated purpose <BR/>(not yet fulfilled) of the Elizabethan Settlement. America must realize that, as a Christian (if only nominally), English-Speaking Nation-State, we need to complete the process of throwing off our Norman Chains by engaging the task set by Elizabeth I -- a return to the Faith of the Undivided Christian Church.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-77220412846869260332007-11-23T22:15:00.000-08:002007-11-23T22:15:00.000-08:00Thanks, s-p. Plage-away! The Chronicles article i...Thanks, s-p. Plage-away! The Chronicles article is really good. I can scan/email or fax you a copy if interested.Terry (John)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07523479530843509695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18762198.post-46905595858867276882007-11-23T21:13:00.000-08:002007-11-23T21:13:00.000-08:00Amen. Amen. Amen. I was musing on this same theme ...Amen. Amen. Amen. I was musing on this same theme a few days ago... that the West was derailed centuries ago before there was an America and we are an expression of the ontological civilization of Western philosophy. Nice post. Thanks... I may plagarize some of it for my own blog. :)Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.com