Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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How the West is Helping to Destroy Christianity in Syria
Source: Alfred the Great Society | Robin Phillips Syrian Christianity goes back to the earliest days of the Christian faith, with language, traditions and practices that have remained largely unchanged since the time of Christ. Despite popular misconceptions, the nation of Syria is not an Islamic state. The Christian population living in Syria has enjoyed…
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Metropolitan Hilarion Believes that Western Countries Tend to Dictatorship
Secularization disguised as democratization released a colossal energy of subordination to power in the European states. Met. Hilarion below affirms a thesis I developed in the essay “Homosexual Marriage at the Dusk of Liberty” where I argue that the legal codification of homosexual “marriage” effectively establishes the State as both the source and judge of…
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Coptic Pope Blasts Muslim Brotherhood, US, EU. Is Washington Listening?
Source: Assyrian News Agency | Mary Abdelmassih The Pope is at the top of the Islamists’ assassination list. (AINA) — Since ex-president Morsy’s ouster on July 3, attacks on Egyptian Christians by members of the Muslim Brotherhood have taken place in most governorates across Egypt. These attacks have escalated since security forces ended the pro-Morsy…
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‘Tolerance’ is a Demanding Mistress
Coming soon to a parish near you. From the “. . .veteran gay and AIDS human rights advocate Michael Petrelis. Based in San Francisco since 1995.” Gays to Picket San Francisco’s Pro-Putin Russian Church Source: The Petrelis Files Who: BoycottRussianVodka.com and Gays Without Borders What: Picket line and speak out Where: St Nicholas Cathedral (pictured)…
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The “Arab Spring” and the Plight of the Coptic Christian
By Abbott Tryphon Coptic is the Pharoes’ name for “Egyptian,“ a little appreciated echo of the fact that all of Egypt was once a Coptic, Christian nation. For seven centuries Egypt was a Christian nation, until the Arab Islamic invasion in the seventh century. When President Obama came to Cairo in 2009 for his first…
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