Category: Culture

A newfound “philozionism”

Don’t be fooled. Europe’s far-right racists are not discerning By Anne Karpf, Tuesday 27 March 2012 14.30 EDT … On Saturday, in the Danish city of Aarhus, a Europe-wide rally organised by the English Defence League will try to set up a European anti-Muslim movement. For Europe’s far-right parties the rally, coming so soon after …

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The Sovereignty of Good

Iris Murdoch against the robots By Andrew Brown, Tuesday 27 March 2012 04.30 EDT … The Sovereignty of Good is a title very easy to misunderstand: it’s a short work by Iris Murdoch, which appears at first glance to suggest that we live in a world where Good triumphs, which is not what she meant …

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Are you some kinda commie?

The Parable of the Parking Lot Announced by Archdruid Eileen, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 … My regular correspondent “Anonymous” has moved to America! From where s/he reports on a church with a car park so big they have to name the sub-car-parks after the books of the Bible. Which makes me muse. My immediate reaction …

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A whiff of terror

Church’s mock raid leaves teen traumatized By Ed Komenda, Monday, March 26, 3:52 PM … MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — The men burst into the church classroom and ordered the 15 teens in the youth group to the floor. They covered the teens’ heads with pillowcases and bound their hands. One man waved an unloaded gun, and another …

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Esoterics

Hippies head for Noah’s Ark: Queue here for rescue aboard alien spaceship By Oliver Pickup, Sunday 25 March 2012 … A mountain looming over a French commune with a population of just 200 is being touted as a modern Noah’s Ark when doomsday arrives – supposedly less than nine months from now. A rapidly increasing …

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They attach epic importance to their work

Christians Called To Serve Jewish Settlers By Nathan Jeffay, March 25, 2012 … Psagot, West Bank — It is a typical, even  stereotypical, West Bank settlement scene: bearded young men pruning vines while  enthusing about the Chosen People’s God-given right to this region. But in this  case it is Jesus, and not Jewish identity, that …

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Myths can be dangerous

“Patriotic Gore is Not Really Much Like Any Other Book by Anyone” By David Blight, March 22, 2012, at 7:02 AM ET … Fifty years ago this spring, the great literary critic Edmund Wilson, author of classic intellectual histories of Marxism, French symbolism, English literature of all kinds, and many other subjects, published one of the …

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