Is the enemy of our enemy our friend?
That is, are orthodox, anti-modernist Muslims, to use a bit of Leninist jargon, “objective allies” of the Orthosphere right? I previously thought they were, but I’ve now increasingly come to think that...
View ArticleModern Architecture, Islam, & the Indispensability of the Trinity
From time to time the Orthosphere publishes essays submitted by readers. This essay, by frequent commenter Dale James Nelson, is our first. It is particularly apt for Maundy Thursday. +++++++++++++ On...
View ArticleCycles of History, Hiatuses of Civilization, and the Western Prospect
Introduction. A correspondent who has made a notable success in the financial world recently sent me two essays – of which he was the author – that revealed a keen sense of history, anthropology, and...
View ArticleI disagree: when is it not appropriate to beat your wife?
I just know I’m going to get grief for this, but long-time readers know I have a mischievous streak that causes me to always sympathize with an obvious villain. I was pleased to see the obviously...
View Article“The Other Iranian Revolution”
That’s the title of an article in Christianity Today in which Matthias Pankau and Uwe Siemon-Netto report on an encouraging phenomenon among Moslems in Germany and, by implication, throughout the House...
View ArticlePC is Jizya
In the comments of Dr. Bertonneau’s most recent portion of his valuable series on TS Eliot, I wondered idly why the Powers decided that we ought to use “Muslim” in place of the traditional “Moslem.”...
View ArticleThe uniquely anti-modern religion
We’re always being told that Christians need to find a way to “embrace the modern world” or find our “own way to be modern”. The quick reply, of course, is that one should not embrace evil and...
View ArticleIs It Possible to Discriminate and Still Be a Christian?
This is a guest post by regular commenter Finn McCool This very question has been percolating in my mind for many years now. I am a middle-aged man and I have never heard a sermon preached in any...
View ArticleThe Eye of Sauron
The Behemoth Prism program, under which the Federal NSA snoops on essentially all the phone calls and web activity of all Americans, is operated for the ostensible purpose of protecting us from Moslem...
View ArticleThe Enemy Speaks His Mind
Sometimes our Adversary hurls his mask on the ground and dances on it screaming with rage. In the video below you may see embodied the term toward which we ultimately tend, as things now stand, and so...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Integration
God is Omega in that all things achieve their final integration in him, and by him – not just at the eschaton, but always. It is by virtue of this integration that creaturely events are in the first...
View ArticleStrange Theological Bedfellows
The Islamic and the liberal views of Jesus and of the New Testament are formally the same. According to liberalism, Jesus was just a man, not God, who never claimed to atone for men’s sins or determine...
View ArticleISIS versus Charlie Hebdo
Many reactionaries and right liberals have remarked that the grand strategy of left liberalism with respect to Islam is to use it (along with mass immigration from other dysfunctional cultures) to sap...
View ArticleMuslims in the Obama coalition: an anecdote
Half of the families in my apartment building are Muslims. I don’t interact with them much, but occasionally we run into each other. I remember the night in 2012 when President Obama accepted his...
View ArticleLiberalism and Islam
I have been thinking about the coziness between Liberalism and Islam, which became evident about twenty seconds after the jihad attack on the World Trade Center, and now drives policy in the USA, the...
View ArticleThe West’s Cultural Continuity: Sylvain Gouguenheim’s Aristote au Mont...
Long before the late Eduard Said invented “Orientalism” to exalt Arab culture and Islamic society at the expense of the West, bien-pensants like Voltaire inclined to express their rebellion against the...
View ArticleThe West’s Cultural Continuity
My article on “The West’s Cultural Continuity” appears at The Gates of Vienna, here: http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/12/the-wests-cultural-continuity/#more-38162 The article discusses the work of Henri...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Pope Francis
A guest post by Mark Citadel: Your Holiness: I write to you as an outsider. A sincere Roman Catholic might not write such a letter out of his admirable respect for the Papacy, and a letter written by a...
View ArticleEric Gans on Leftist Resentment
Eric L. Gans Eric L. Gans has written about the Left’s total submission to its own unacknowledged resentment in his latest Chronicle of Love and Resentment (No. 514) at the Anthropoetics website. Here...
View ArticleDuffers and Fanatics
I do not know what Islam is “all about,” and this is one respect in which I differ from most journalists, politicians, chiefs of police and U. S. military officers. Unlike me, a great many of these...
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