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Welcome aboard! I meant Arianism in the strict sense, not the neo-Platonic sense. As for the Gnostic elements within Yankee Puritanism, I got that from a very good book written by a Presbyterian minister. It’s called Against the Protestant Gnostics. It’s very academic and exhaustive but it really sheds light on the Puritan impulse to see themselves as a Chosen People. Another good book is by Barbara Tuchman called Sword and Bible (if memory serves) which is a history of Britain and its role in the establishment of the Palestinian Mandate. Long story short: the Puritans while in England had early on started dispensing with Trinitarian theology and affecting Judaic poses in their cultural affiliations. You know the drill: giving their kids obscure OT names like Yochabed, Mechitophel, Abigail, as a way of distinguishing themselves from their Anglican Saxon brethren.
I read that book too by Tuchman. However, its modern liberal Protestantism along with the secular left that kick out morality and some Catholics and Orthodox sided with modern Liberal Protestants on morally not theology I think Steve Sailer stated that California the North and South were influence by the Northeast, and the Midwest and South. Kern County which George would like had a lot of Oklahoma people settled it. Kern is a Farm/oil County in California. San Diego until the early 1990′s was pretty conservative because of the aerospace industry and people that came to San Diego from the Midwest and South, more evangelical Christianity. The Bay area had nominal Roman Catholics like the Kennedy types back east and Puritan influence that developed into more non-belief there. The only time Southern Religion was popular in the Bay Area was during the 1960′s and 1970′s Jesus Movement.
» Posted By cynthia curran On June 8, 2013 @ 6:54 pm
“Arian, gnostic, iconoclastic heresy that is Protestantism.”
Well, I’m departing Protestantism (Calvinism even), not defending it. But…..iconoclasm, certainly. Arianism? I can see it as a argumentative epithet, but nobody either is, or can be, an Arian in the modern world. Arianism is one of those heresies that can’t exist anymore. Now, Christ is either human and divine, or he is human only. He can’t be a demiurge, created before the world. Anybody who could believe that would have no problem with orthodox trinitarianism.
It’s like those moderns who call themselves pagan; even they don’t believe in the Olympian pantheon!
As for Gnosticism, this is merely weird. Real, actual, Gnosticism? It died in the third century, with a few late revivals, like the Bogomils and the Albigensians. Applied to Protestants in general, it’s just a polemical barb– it’s rubbish
This is true, and the Byzantines had a group called the Paulicians, a Gnostic group. Personality, bad theology doesn’t make a bad society. Utah has the lowest out of wedlock births while Evangelical Arkansas has the highest out of wedlock births among young whites. Most Mormons except those that want several wives live more moralistic than Catholics, Orthodox or Protestants. Also, Utah government is not considered bad and both political left and right would be surprise to find it has a low poverty rate compard to most states and about an average income.
» Posted By Cynthia Curran On June 8, 2013 @ 6:35 pm
Let the Healing Begin: Part II — Authority and Humility in the OCA
ery well said Seraphim. For what it’s worth, the acceptance of homosexuality is now a fait accompli in many Northeastern parishes of the OCA and even one in Kentucky (if memory serves). As for SVS, only Fr Chad Hatfield stands in the way of it becoming 100% liberal/ecumenist. But for the fact that he’s in the Antiochian jurisdiction, he’d of been toast long ago.
Think of it: how would STS, Holy Cross, etc. stand up to SVS once the flagship seminary in America goes pink? They won’t, mainly because they’ve never had much academic prestige to begin with. That’s one reason that the recent SVS/Acton conference was such a huge thing. The mere planting of the conservative/classically liberal economic flag within its precincts set back the liberal-ecumenists on their heels.
You’ve hit the nail on the head: once an opportunity arises and/or a significant cultural shift occurs, then the OCA will become “Finlandized.” The machinery is in place now that Jonah has been removed.
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The problem with the Orthodox is outside of a Russian or Roman Empire which that supports traditional morality, Orthodox have difficulties On the other hand, conservative catholic or some of the conservative mainliners like Missouri Synod along with evangelicals turns people off from dealing with the issue. It would be nice if orthodox had a different approach from conservative Catholics or Protestants on this.» Posted By cynthia curran On June 12, 2013 @ 1:50 am
The structure of the Church, though hierarchial, is not monarchical but federalist. If you want Christian monarchy go to Rome.”
Or the “Byzantine” empire, or the Russian empire, or any of the monarchies that have traditionally governed Orthodox people from the time of Constantine to 1917. I’m always amazed that this is even a debate within Orthodox circles. Neither is the Church federalist. It is governed by the Holy Spirit through what is essentially an unelected senate of regional monarchs, the presiding senator in each state/monarchy/empire having a responsibility to keep the country’s monarch true to the faith. Well, you have a point there not certain if Greece or the Eastern European countries can go to a monarch.
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» Posted By cynthia curran On May 6, 2013 @ 9:37 pm
Do These People Count as “Sexual Minorities”?
The problem with any classification of people is that it is a political statement, not an accurate one. Women are often classified as a minority, but they are the majority; I know an African-American who is blond-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned (she was born in Africa, moved to the USA and became a citizen … how much more of an African, American can one be?); Hispanics should be classified as ‘white’; very few Caucasians come from central Russia; the new term is Asian (it used to be Oriental) but does that mean people from India and Palestinians are really Asians, since they come from Asia; and Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples are neither (their ancestors have just been here longer than the rest of ours have).
Genes from the Vandals maybe, but most were killed off by the Justinianian reconquest of Carthage and other parts of north Africa.» Posted By cynthia curran On April 26, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
Bp. Matthias “Voluntarily” Retires
This is another aside, the historian Procopius was thought to be a lawyer since Latin was still use in the ealrier part of the 6th century in Law school. Procopous was familar with both Latin and Greek and a great deal of Greek and Roman History. Your right about Germans dominated of ancient and medieval history in the 19th century and probably Byzantine came from Byzantium which was use by Procopius and John Zonaras and some other historians of Constantinople. The old name of Byzantium was use as much as new Rome or Constantinople.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 22, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
A Good Word about Tarrin’ and Featherin’
The Romans after the 2nd century most wars were not s for conquest since it was pretty extended or overextended also an outbreak of measles in the late 2nd century cut down on man power. Some thing this caused indirectly the politcal instabality of the 3rd century. The Byzanitines this might be exeggerated once had a forced of 500,000 soldiers. Agathas complains of Justinian cutting the forces down to about 120,000 and of course the plague cutt down on man power in the army.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 24, 2013 @ 8:46 pm
I Guess the Religion of Peace Didn’t Get the Memo
Well, Nixon was far from a conservative maybe on things like law and order or against drugs. Support for the Vietnam war started with liberals in the Kennedy Adminstration .Nixon did the EPA And once wage and price controls. I lived in an area that was effcctive by the Vietnam War because thousands of Vietnamise Refugees fled out of Vietnam to avoid camps as funding for the war was reduce gave the North Victory, its all over now and it can’t be changed either way.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 24, 2013 @ 7:09 pm
Interesting there is a winepress found in Isreal 6th century and it had a lantern shaped like a church. Little things like that make us thing. Anyway, the wine was probably going to Africa and Europe and even barbaric Europe.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 10, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
It’s Official: Christianity Most Persecuted Religion in the World
St. John Moschus, I think he is a 7th century figure.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 11, 2013 @ 11:11 pm
“Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world.” So asserted German Chancellor Angela Merkel late last year, causing a stir. Merkel echoed a concern expressed by then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who warned in a 2011 speech that Christians face a “particularly wicked program of cleansing in the Middle East, religious cleansing.”
Merkel father is or was a Luthean pastor which is why Merkel is interested in the subject.» Posted By cynthia curran On April 11, 2013 @ 11:09 pm
So, How Did You Enjoy Cesar Chavez Day?
Cezar Chavez is a hero. The plight of migrant farm workers in California and other states is a terrible scandal for Christians. These people do back breaking work, work that “white” people would never consider suitable. They make it possible for us to have food on our tables and they do this with little legal protection. Well, Whites and Afro-Americans did it at least up to the 1980′s or 1990′s in the South. It was the West and Texas because of the Branceo program that made it mainly a Mexican and now it becoming more Central American since Mexicans prefer other jobs. Second and Third generation Mexicans in the Central Valley of California have high unemploment rates and actually robots could eiinimate most farm picking but Agri-business does not want to spend the capital in doing it. I read that there are labor shortages in Mexican even for farmwork so they get Central Americans. Canada has a smarter guestworker program, you can’t have girlfriends when you do the farmwork and stricter enforement of worker vistas.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 8, 2013 @ 8:51 am
I like his early career against illegal immirgants to try to keep his union to have some say with big ag. In those days Republicans in Ca sided with BIG Ag tChavez, they learn to regreat this when Reagan’s legalization act since thousands from the central Vally to places like La to do non-farm work. Reagan was against Chavez.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 8, 2013 @ 8:38 am
Historians and sociologists have made further distinctions between radical Anabaptists, who were prepared to use violence in their attempts to build a New Jerusalem, and their pacifist brethren, later broadly known as Mennonites. Radical Anabaptist groups included the Münsterites, who occupied and held the German city of Münster in 1534–5, and the Batenburgers, who persisted in various guises as late as the 1570s.
[edit] These movements were the ancestors of modern communisim.. The Munster group practice communal marriage and communal owenship. Talking about the religous left this is the ancestor, also a lot of dancing in the sprit, speaking in tongues and so forth. The radical antibapists went against conventional protestant or Roman Catholic churches in their day.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 7, 2013 @ 11:27 pm
Well, talking about Nixon I remember readng the book Justinian’s flea about Justinian and Theodora and the others and the Plague, anyway, the author mention that book Nixon and Justinian stay up all nite. I also thought well both were from rural backgounds not that causes one to stay up all nite. Everyone will state their religious views were very different but both were not popular in their day.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 7, 2013 @ 10:04 pm
How Did We Get Here? Part I: Syosset and the Dearth of Vision
As for why I mentioned Kishinev, I wanted to bring out that Kishinev was probably a turning point. Before then, the various “pogroms” were little more than inter-ethnic fracases between Jews and Slavs. This was proven by blue-ribbon commissions set up by the British government which had been hounded by recently arrived Jewish immigrants to “do something” about Russia, much like the Neocons of today who wish to harness American power in the service of Israel. Neither Gladstone nor Disraeli (who was very proud of his Jewish ethnicity) were going to get the British Empire involved in a war against Russia simply because anti-Russian bigots didn’t like the Russian majority. The English weren’t fools, they knew that within an empire the various ethnicities do not usually get along. (England had its own problems with the Irish and the Scots Highlanders after all.) I agree on that one.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 28, 2013 @ 2:00 pm
So when did the bloodletting really begin? It was after the fall of the Tsar. Most of us don’t realize but Russia erupted in a very real civil war after the brutal murder of Nicholas and his family. Whites on one side (most Christian and Russian) and Reds on the other. The Bolshevik Party was led predominantly by Jewish intellectuals and their staging areas were based largely in areas that were Jewish. The nature of the Russian Civil was brutal –no quarter was given on either side.
As for the three-part essay you find so distasteful, although I can agree that it is controversial, I can most definitely say that it was well-researched. In history, you got to go to where the facts take you. Any group that engages in a “Hooray for Our Side” historiography is peddling propaganda. And this includes Greeks by the way.
For contemporaneous sources you can read Winston Churchill. Louis Epstein, Gilad Atzmon, Israel Shamir and other Israeli authors have done yeoman’s work in sifting through the primary sources. You could also read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Two Hundred Years Together, a fascinating book which remains untranslated into English for some odd reason. (It can’t be anti-Semitism because Dmitri Sipes has absolved Solzhenitsyn of that taint
Stalin in his later years was throwing Jews into the Camps. The Jews were betrayed by the communist movement which a lot of secular Jews were atttractive.» Posted By cynthia curran On April 28, 2013 @ 1:57 pm
It’s Called “Voting with Your Feet”
I was born and raised in Oklahoma. I, along with the majority of the kids I grew up with, have long since left the state. I can’t think of anyone I went to high school with who stayed in our hometown if they graduated from college. And while I won’t ‘out’ myself here by naming that hometown, it’s not that small of a town by Oklahoma standards. A few classmates ended up in Tulsa and OKC. I’d say the largest concentration of classmates have moved to Texas (yes a red state that doesn’t prove the point here since TX is less red than OK) but we can be found all over the US.
I can’t imagine moving back to Oklahoma. My parents are preparing to move away now. I have one sibling left but his kids go to private schools. If they couldn’t afford private schools, they would leave too.
I think that follks moving to Texas should pause, it has the making of more long term problems than Oklahoma since its a lot more Hispanics even liberal folks mention the problems in California shifting from white to Hispanic by a California study mentioning that the education levels of Ca which were higher in the over 40 year population are lower in the 25 and younger, this is also happening in Texas, under Rick Perry Poverty grew while the economy grew the state’s poverty level grew since a lot of immirgants from Mexico and Central America moved in to do construcation jobs in Houston. New Mexico rankts 4th in out of wedlock births behind Dc, LA, Miss . This is data from the US Census and New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics that are native born. Native born Hispanics higher out of wedlock births than foreign Hispanics.» Posted By cynthia curran On May 12, 2013 @ 4:30 pm
Rahm Emanuel, Chicago, and “Ethnic Cleansing”
Well, personality I think some conservatives are hung up against free trade. i agree maybe some of the deals should not be made with China. But Pat Buchnan thinks all factory jobs pay good while all service jobs don’t. There are factory jobs that pay very low in the US, I saw one that advertise for 8.00 per hr capping bottles on frangance. perfumes. I think that insource immirgation has a more negative impact since it brings in a lot of job competition for the remaining jobs in the us. Also, trade can work both ways, factory goes to Mexico but another factory like Asian Food products or Asian car companies locate in the States, something that Pat Buchnan does think about.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 10, 2013 @ 9:59 am
You are right. I shouldn’t have posted that characterization of His Grace. I deeply regret it and ask for His Grace’s forgiveness. Bishop Tikhon Fitzgerald is many things: erudite, sarcastic, scholarly, caustic, knowledgeable, a tad irascible at times, too progressive for my tastes, disingenuous at times, but he is no fool. Bishop Tikhon is a great guy.
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» Posted By cynthia curran On April 5, 2013 @ 11:25 pm
What you won’t hear, except from me, is that “Let the good times roll” is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poorer native judgment than members of better-educated groups. Thus they need stricter moral guidance from society.”
The guy is just full of ‘Plain Facts,” is he not?
Well, I remember Sailer talking about that and that blacks in Washington state have less crime than they do in Louisanna. The problem is sure whites or asians have their problems but blacks and hispanics have more children out of wedlock, both the left and right talk about this but it seems the problem is far from solved and some of the left and right want to add fuel to the fire by importing more poorer Hispanics from Mexico or Central America that will drive down the wages of native born blacks and hispanics which will probably lead to higher unemployment and more children out of wedlock and poverty issues..» Posted By cynthia curran On April 5, 2013 @ 8:36 pm
Well, I don’t think the serbs were all innocent on the raping of women but I think the Moselms did it as well. The serbs were villianzed more.
» Posted By cynthia curran On April 5, 2013 @ 10:56 am
I Say, “Have You Lost Some Weight Lately? There’s Something Different about You.”
Well, that remark about women carrying assault weapons remines me of Procopius famous line about the women getting in the Nika riot with their daggers.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 24, 2013 @ 3:58 pm
Sarah Palin endorsed Jeff Flake in the primary and there was a better republican candidate, unlike George i see some of her flaws which was in the case of Jeff Flake of Arizona going for what the Republican elite like.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 23, 2013 @ 7:11 pm
As for guns, Sandy Hook probably did’t have a murder in years. i’m not as pro-gun as many Republicans are some background checks are ok with me since in order to become employed you have to take a drug test and maybe some types of guns and definetly weapons like Tanks and so forth can be ban.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 23, 2013 @ 11:39 am
Well, Harper moved Canada more to the American Right. He has developed energy and I believed he prevented new taxes. He probably favors going away from state health care but its tricky. In the US, the problem is that if your company does not provide insurance for you, you are out of luck. The tax credit schemes by Republicans would leave most Americans with having to pay a lot out of pocket but the Canadian and European system is ration out. Some people in Canada and Europe get the treatment while others have to go to the States to get it. Its complex.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 23, 2013 @ 11:35 am
Look, I’m a live and let live kinda guy, always have been, always will be. The homosexual juggernaut however is unstoppable and it will lead to the persecution of the Church. Passively at first, then aggressively. That’s all.
True, until about 1965 gays were all in the closet. Granted, people have friends that are gay and they should be able to live without being jailed or in the Byzantine world castrated but George’s is right that Religion whether its Roman Catholic or Orthodox or Protestant has not been able to overcome the homosexual movement.
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» Posted By cynthia curran On March 19, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
That said, I’m sure conspiracy theorists will dust off their aluminium foil caps and micro parse every comma to develop the meme that the Orthodox are now all doomed to some unacceptable form of “reconciliation” with the Romans, to be henceforth enslaved to the Illuminati, Freemasons, and World Bank.
Do these same Orthodox have ever a concern being involved with the NCC or WCC which Liberal Protestants are behind.» Posted By cynthia curran On March 16, 2013 @ 9:06 pm
don’t know — an “expansive view of Christ’s Church?” This sounds like Freemasonic cant. There is only one True Church if you’re Orthodox — the Orthodox Church. What other Churches do you have in mind as being “Christ’s Church?” In video linked below is from JP II’s interreiigious conference held in Assisi. You’ll see Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Pagans, Animists, Muslims, and others welcomed by JP II. You’ll also see them praying together. At 6:25 into the video, you’ll see footage of a Buddhist prayer service where Buddhists were allowed to use a local parish where they put a statue of Buddha on the altar. Do you really believe these actions are those Well, Orthodox are involved with liberal protestants in the WCC or NCC which are just as bad some times.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 16, 2013 @ 9:03 pm
«« Back To Stats Pagedon’t know — an “expansive view of Christ’s Church?” This sounds like Freemasonic cant. There is only one True Church if you’re Orthodox — the Orthodox Church. What other Churches do you have in mind as being “Christ’s Church?” In video linked below is from JP II’s interreiigious conference held in Assisi. You’ll see Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Pagans, Animists, Muslims, and others welcomed by JP II. You’ll also see them praying together. At 6:25 into the video, you’ll see footage of a Buddhist prayer service where Buddhists were allowed to use a local parish where they put a statue of Buddha on the altar. Do you really believe these actions are those Well, Orthodox are involved with liberal protestants in the WCC or NCC which are just as bad some times.
» Posted By cynthia curran On March 16, 2013 @ 9:03 pm
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