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Back in the day, all social welfare services were provided by monks and nuns. If you showed up at the door of a monastery or nunnery destitute or sick or starving, or all three, you could be pret...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2023/07/09/the-moral-logic-of-social-welfare-necessitates-monasticism/

I learnt just now from our shieldmate Patriactionary that there is a new Hulu reality TV series about ten unspeakably beautiful ‘Muslim-American’ Afghani sisters “sleeping around, causing d...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2023/05/29/the-great-satan-versus-man/

If there is heaven, you would be stupid to forego it by some short term evanescent and unrighteous, ergo in all likelihood maladaptive worldly foolishness. So you would be less likely to engage i...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/christian-focus-on-sempiternity-%E2%86%92-long-term-calculation-in-mundane-affairs/

Oswald Spengler (1880 – 1936), the German historian and philosopher, devotes a suite of three chapters (VII, VIII, and IX) in his Decline of the West, Volume II (1922), to what he calls “The ...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/spengler-on-militant-religiosity/

Introduction. The Western layman approaching the Koran for the first time must experience something like befuddlement.  Supposing that the layman possesses a good education, including knowledge ...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/a-westerner-reads-the-koran-second-surah/

My heart is of course broken at the disaster inflicted yesterday upon Notre Dame de Paris. All that must be said about the cultural and religious meaning of this catastrophe has already been well...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/the-argument-from-the-enmity-of-our-enemies/

Berdyaev points out that if God and the individual human Personality are not someone’s highest ideal then that person is effectively promising to sacrifice the individual in the name of that su...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/berdyaev-why-god-and-personality-must-be-the-highest-ideal/

At Gates of Vienna, I review, somewhat belatedly, Pierre Manent’s book Beyond Radical Secularism (2016).  The book carries the subtitle How France and the Christian West Should Respond to t...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2018/08/13/beyond-radical-secularism/

I am an investment advisor, working for a fairly substantial firm (as such firms go), that I helped my two partners organize more than twenty years ago. The compliance policies I myself enforce u...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2018/08/12/what-tends-to-happen-at-the-end-of-a-vicious-cycle/

In a recent essay, I suggested that the angels are the concrete archetypes of the Platonic Forms. This in response to a few Ockhamian challenges to Plato regarding the Forms that I there adduced:...

https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2018/07/08/philosophical-skeleton-keys-more-on-angels/