Phil Dorroll

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Camellias blooming today

The value of that 20 years *cannot be quantified* and the fact that people think that it can be is the whole problem

Just fwiw- this might also be because today is Forgiveness Sunday in the Orthodox calendar, the day before the beginning of Great Lent; and its customary for Orthodox on this day to say to each other "Forgive me, a sinner"

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They hate us for our freedoms

One of the first things I say now to every class I teach is “never ask a machine about God”

Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.

…of consciousness within political parties in Germany, a new ideological shift becomes visible. And this is the alliance of postmodernists with premodernists.”

-“Modernity versus Postmodernity” (trans. Seyla Ben-Habib, 1981)

TIL that in 1980 Habermas predicted the alt-right as a product of fashionable cynicism toward modernism:

“I fear that the ideas of anti-modernity, together with an additional touch of premodernity, are becoming popular in the circles of alternative culture. When one observes the transformations…

Vatican News No to homilies prepared with Artificial Intelligence The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use. He warned against "the temptation to prepare homilies with Artificial Intelligence". "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," he said. Moreover, "to give a true homily is to share faith," and Al "will never be able to share faith," he insisted. "If we can offer a service that is inculturated in the place, in the parish where we are working, people want to see your faith, your experience of having known and loved Christ." vaticannews.va

PAPA LEONE YES

(And I partly blame the 9/11 Commission for this)

Also maybe it’s just me, but Qutb’s importance (and the quality of his thought in general) is often wildly overstated in textbooks and surveys

I get this sentiment, but I think we have the leaders we've asked for, and I don't just mean Trump. Americans long ago chose consumerism and hedonism over civic responsibility and the past 25 years have been the bill coming due.

Gold, frankincense, and whirrrrrrrrrr

A response to my argument in the original piece that patriarchy is a harmful passion of the soul:

Combatting this needs to move the top of the humanities pedagogical agenda

Ramazan ayınız mübarek, dualarınız kabul olsun.

The greatest achievement of the West was precisely its discovery of the universal human rights and freedoms that belong to all of humanity, whose protection is the essence of justice, and whose infringement the essence of evil.

So in the true spirit of Western Civilization: Ramadan Mubarak!

a greeting card for ramadan kareem with a crescent moon and stars Alt: a greeting card for ramadan with a crescent moon, lamps, and stars on a purple background

Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues ṣawm maqbūl and Ramadan karim!

Ramadan Mubarak

"Something inside of me said, ‘Go up there and stand with these people'"- this is really what morality is all about.

Or as its put in the hadith:

It’s interesting that according to this report, Orthodox Christians in America overall have the same skeptical/negative reaction to Christian nationalism as most other denominations (despite the recent rise of the Orthodox far right in the US)

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

There’s some recent work on this from classical Islamic studies that’s work checking out; at least in classical Islamic texts, “din” approximates very closely the modern, Western concept of religion

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Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Same thing happened to Bulgakov sadly (who was betrayed even in his own lifetime)

“Nobody dies to defend a ‘multicultural economic zone’”