Tag: Culture
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Podcast: The Animal Rights Movement from an Orthodox perspective
Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the “moral equivalence” between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the “brotherhood” of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out ! Listen…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion…
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Another one? Greco-triumphalism trumps the moral tradition — again
Alexi Giannoulias is the Democratic candidate for US Senate (Obama’s old seat). He crows about his endorsement from Planned Parenthood (“incredibly honored to be the only senate candidate to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood!!” twitter), favors homosexual marriage and wants to repeal DOMA, even marched in Chicago’s gay rights parade (dissipation alert) calling it “a…
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Religion as the ground of culture?
Looks like religion may have led to civilization. HT: Mystagogy From Newsweek Magazine: History in the Remaking A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are…