"What is holding us together?" I've read that the USA is an economic union. That's it. The dollar, store chains, freeways, and airliners hold the country together. Lose any of them, and the whole USA falls apart (fine by me. Secession is the answer to our ills from D.C.)
I have a cap that says, "Make Orwell Fiction Again." I wear it around town. Several people have told me, "Great cap!"
Corn likker doesn't agree with me. Rye whisky works for me. Westland Whisky of Seattle is very smooth. The Garryana is 145 proof and $180 a bottle, including shipping.
I agree with writer of Anarchonomicon that all governments are religions (you and I discussed this on your podcast). And he's correct to identify that many modern churches have financially beneficial associations with governments.
But his overall take on Christianity is a thoroughly pagan one. It's also extremely shallow; sharper than dull in many places, but still shallow. His view of God's omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence as expecting God to be like a puppetmaster, is basically casting the Christian God as a failed pagan god (I address this in my book). And I'm not sure how a person could understand the Gospels and then claim Christianity has "no standards." The writer's attempts to interpret some Gospel passages shows a lack of knowledge of history, culture and context, too. Very shallow way of reading any texts, especially ones from long ago.
At one point, he tries to exalt "healthy hero worship," as if such a thing exists. There's no such thing as "healthy" hero worship, nor in desiring to be the hero who is worshiped. That's extremely unhealthy (I've expanded on the point of a few articles of my own).
It's a long article, but that doesn't make it deep. It's an expansive puddle; plenty of room to splash around, knowing you'll never get more than the bottoms of your shoes soaked.
"What is holding us together?" I've read that the USA is an economic union. That's it. The dollar, store chains, freeways, and airliners hold the country together. Lose any of them, and the whole USA falls apart (fine by me. Secession is the answer to our ills from D.C.)
I have a cap that says, "Make Orwell Fiction Again." I wear it around town. Several people have told me, "Great cap!"
Corn likker doesn't agree with me. Rye whisky works for me. Westland Whisky of Seattle is very smooth. The Garryana is 145 proof and $180 a bottle, including shipping.
You're the second Substacker I follow who's sung the praises of bourbon recently. Have you heard of W.D. James? https://wdjames.substack.com/p/musical-interlude-the-devils-drink
Nope - but I’ll check him out. When you have some free time…you might wanna give this a look-see: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/christ-was-an-epstein-client?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7496a318-b010-484e-a9b7-1165005856cc_1182x843.png&open=false.
I agree with writer of Anarchonomicon that all governments are religions (you and I discussed this on your podcast). And he's correct to identify that many modern churches have financially beneficial associations with governments.
But his overall take on Christianity is a thoroughly pagan one. It's also extremely shallow; sharper than dull in many places, but still shallow. His view of God's omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence as expecting God to be like a puppetmaster, is basically casting the Christian God as a failed pagan god (I address this in my book). And I'm not sure how a person could understand the Gospels and then claim Christianity has "no standards." The writer's attempts to interpret some Gospel passages shows a lack of knowledge of history, culture and context, too. Very shallow way of reading any texts, especially ones from long ago.
At one point, he tries to exalt "healthy hero worship," as if such a thing exists. There's no such thing as "healthy" hero worship, nor in desiring to be the hero who is worshiped. That's extremely unhealthy (I've expanded on the point of a few articles of my own).
It's a long article, but that doesn't make it deep. It's an expansive puddle; plenty of room to splash around, knowing you'll never get more than the bottoms of your shoes soaked.