Néa Filadélfeia In New York City this past weekend, I was at a Canada Day barbecue in Cooper Park yesterday which ended perfectly… a cop car drove onto one of the park paths and stopped a hundred feet from us so the cops could watch the thirty-odd people having a picnic. After ten minutes of being watched […]
Tag Archives: Law
I’ve been impressed recently by the intelligence, articulateness, and unapologetically rakish character of Christopher Hitchens, and curiosity about and respect for the man prompted me to take a look at the fashionable atheist books of the day, beginning with his God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. As is always the case with modern […]
Abraham, Our Father in Faith.
13-Jul-10In the endless self-repeating Flows for ever more the Same; Myriad arches, springing, meeting, Hold at rest the mighty Frame; Streams from all things love of living, Grandest star and humblest clod; All the straining, all the striving, Is eternal rest in God. – GOETHE In any good religion, there should be something utterly unpalatable, […]
Jung on the Law versus Grace.
18-Apr-10I was struck by the diocese of New York removing from the Easter Vigil the reading of Abraham sacrificing Isaac; presumably because the story scandalizes nice good people who want religion to look hunky-dory and sweet. But obviously, if God cannot work through horror and crime and sin and cruelty then He can’t be terribly […]
Oh My… Stone Shamu???
04-Mar-10Memory cannot really handle just how crazy the American Family Association – a huge organization, by the way, with 200 radio stations and all kinds of clout – really is. You need to be reminded again and again. One of their writers, Bryan Fischer, accused Seaworld of negligence by keeping a killer whale with a […]
Still an abuse of the law.
29-Dec-09Attempts to make law enforcement a business just create stupidity, petty regulation, law for law’s sake, and injustice. Even if it’s petty injustice. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/space_hogs_lapped_on_empty_subways_m7iRAd9b4E9alYPuGvy5OO
Those Who Live By the Law…
18-Oct-09The man in the photo with the Leviticus quotation tattooed on his arm, who clearly sees it as a justification for violence against gays, got some great treatment from a pastor who reads Andrew Sullivan’s blog: Too bad the guy with the passage from Leviticus tattooed on his arm didn’t read the next chapter: “You […]
The Conservative Side of the Church.
05-Feb-09I was speaking with my mother about the most recent Church problems, when she referred to Benedict XVI as “your pope,” i.e. my pope, a pope of the more conservative Catholics, and the younger Catholics. And there is no doubt that I was happy on the day Benedict was elected. I watched the news […]
Law 2, Mind 0.
30-Jun-11Gowurdak The landscaping crew gets a four-day weekend this weekend, and after a particularly grueling four days – we planted a tremendous number of plants – I stopped off at the supermarket on my way home. I wanted to buy some beer. Of course, I was asked for I.D. Being thirty-five and sporting the gray hairs […]