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Category: Concepts in Religious Thought Series
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Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) and an Honest Conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology
I am quite excited to find Cannons’ Hurricane (2022) on YouTube. It opens up an honest conversation on Pentecostal Sociology and Theology in the year 2023 among those interested in the related history of popular culture studies. We are in a cosmic shift for Americanised and populist Christianity. The only way forward for…
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Neo-Orthodoxy Today from Historical Legacy
Introduction Today, we hear stories of Orthodox Judaism, and in this recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, we learn that ‘new orthodoxy’ is a ‘thing’. Image: Online story, Sylvia Goodman. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Sham’? Yeshiva U. Created a New LGBTQ Club — but Won’t Recognize the One That Sued, The Chronicle of Higher…
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More Than This: “I could feel at the time there was no way of knowing” (Nihilism but beyond it)
Rorty Music: Nihilism but beyond it Fallen leaves in the night on the stable sea tide… I could feel at the time There was no way of knowing Fallen leaves in the night Who can say where they’re blowing? As free as the wind Hopefully learning Why the sea on the tide Has no…
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Mitt Romney Thesis and Evangelicalism
David French’s article in The Atlantic (October 14, 2022) is an interesting analysis on ‘The Trump’ phenomena. French connects Trumpism to the Mitt Romney martyr thesis on events of 2012, and, behind that pattern of behaviour, a right-wing version of American evangelicalism. It had to do with the role of Newt Gingrich during a moment…
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A Message to the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools
I am responding to the below-mentioned Campaign and the thinking in reaction to a meme, posted on the Facebook page of the Queensland Parents for Secular State Schools. “This, in a nutshell, is why [meme] there should be no religious instruction in public schools. It doesn’t get more divisive and judgemental than this.…
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Understanding Reference and Meaning, and Fair Evaluation of All Worldviews
“The first thing to realize…is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel…
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The Language and Ignorance of the Culture Warrior and Knowledge of Religion & Culture in Late 20th Century Queensland
This is a blog post to set everyone straight, which makes me open to the critique of being one of Manning Clark’s ‘straighteners’; but that’s another story. My arguments, as a general framework, is based on a basic critique of the neo-conservative paradigm. The paradigm is a defence of a cultural position(s) which has become…
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D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (1923): One Hundred Years On, Questioning Social Philosophy and Policy for Today
THREE ESSAYS (REVIEW COMMENTS) IN ONE ESSAY An examination of D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo (The Cambridge Edition) in social philosophy, and demonstrating a fundamental policy problem in Australian political history. Image: Sydney Region and Central-South Coast Staging of Kangaroo (1923). ***** List of Site Markers. Order from north to south Narrabeen New South Wales 2101…
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The Ontological Compass
The Ontological Compass assists in mapping out our understanding of too many philosophical arguments which get conflated, and interpretations which overlap without clarity. It works on measuring out usual binaries in discussions, and provides the relational sense to these matters, avoiding meaningless cognitive relativism as well as out-dated absolutism. If there are any absolutism,…
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Discussion: Religion, Culture, and Political Parties: The Silent Response to Zachary Gorman ‘s One Direction and Mike Seccombe’s Part 1 & 2: Collapse of the modern Liberal
Dr Neville Buch challenges a discussion with the views of Mike Seccombe, Zachary Gorman, John Warhurst, and Nick Cater. “I never got from Menzies what I feel about listening to modern Liberals, which is a contempt for the other. It’s a really, really harsh, harsh attitude – that your political opponents are the enemy. It’s…