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Sunday 28 February 2016

CHRISTIAN ANARCHISM

 

                                                                 



                                                                      WIKI

                                                                       

                                               ANARCHISM AND CHRISTIANITY


According to orthodox opinion, Christianity is synonymous with order, authority and state power. Even the most casual glance at the history of the Church reveals a reliable and systematic pattern of political subservience; Imperialist in Rome, Monarchist in Renaissance Europe, Stalinist in Russia, and “Democratic” in America. Clearly, Christianity not only supports authorities, but presupposes that authorities exist. For Calvin, even the most brutal tyrant is better than the absence of civil authority, and Luther’s own endorsement of the bloody suppression of the peasant rebellion is well known. It would appear any reconciliation between Christianity and an-arche: the absence of authority and command, is out of the question. Expounding his own brand of Christian anarchy Leo Tolstoy complained of “a tacit but steadfast conspiracy of silence about all such efforts.” (Tolstoy,1984,p8) Nevertheless, from the very foundation of Christianity there has been an undercurrent of opposition to both secular and Church authority, much more than just incidental protests against given power abuse, but essentially anarchistic in character. So it is my purpose here to demonstrate the radical incompatibility between the ethics of state power and the ethics of the gospel. This is not an attempt to construct a sociology of Christianity, but simply an effort to isolate and analyse its socio-political dimensions and show that anarchism is the only “anti-political political position” in harmony with Christian thought. This will require scrutiny of both biblical doctrine, as well as some of the various anarchistic Christian movements throughout history. First of all, a brief definition of anarchism is necessary.
                                                                     

                                         WAS JESUS AN ANARCHIST?


CHRISTIAN ANARCHY: A POLITICAL COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPELS






CHRISTIAN ANARCHY: THE FORGOTTEN POLITICS OF JESUS' RULE OF LOVE (pdf)


                                                                   

                                              THE ROMANS 13 CONTROVERSY



                                                                         


Friday 26 February 2016

WRITERS FOR MAD IN AMERICA



                                                   WRITERS FOR MAD IN AMERICA


                               These splendid writers. most of whom criticise modern psychiatry, include

                                                       

Peter Breggin





Kelley Brogan





Michael Cornwall



Laura Delano



Jim Gottstein




Chaya Grossberg



Bruce Levine



Tina Minkowitz



Lauren Tenney




Robert Whittaker



FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS INCLUDE



Peter Goetzche



Bonnie Kaplan


Mary Maddock



John Read



Joanna Moncrieff

Thursday 25 February 2016

Which factors predict brain ageing?



                                                                   




        When the Dr.Ritchie presented this talk to the Edinburgh section of the Royal Statistics Society during February 2016, I suggested that childhood and adult bullying might be two further explanatory variables worth considering, This suggestion was well received.


                            WHAT PREDICTS BRAIN AGEING? by Stuart J,Ritchie


                                                             

























MY CHRISTIAN-RELATED BLOG POSTS


                                                                                   
       
My friend Thomas is extreme agnostic, and averse to institutionalised religion. He however gives food to the hungry and homeless, and he's kind to everybody, I don't see how anybody could do better,

           CHRISTIAN ANARCHISM


           MARY MAGDELENE (BBC i player and more)


           JOHN SHELBY SPONG, a bishop for our times


           ETERNAL FATHER STRONG TO SAVE (A NAVAL HYMN)


          WAS JESUS AN ANARCHIST?


         CREATION, POWER, AND TRUTH (TOM WRIGHT)


          TODAY AT ST. ANDREWS AND ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH WEST, EDINBURGH


          CELTIC PRAYERS FOR JOY


          IN DEFENCE OF ATHEISM


          EYSTEIN THANISCH--Ph.D. IN SCOTTISH AND CELTIC STUDIES



          THE MORAL HIGH GROUND, A POEM TRANSLATED INTO THE SCOTS TONGUE


          NESTORIAN CHRISTIANITY


          DIETRICH BONHOFFER: SILENCE IN THE FACE OF EVIL IS ITSELF EVIL


         LORD'S PRAYER IN 8 RARE LANGUAGES


        THE CHRISTIAN LIE


        THE UNPARDONABLE SIN


        THE CULT OF JAHWEH (Professor Nicholas Wyatt)


        OH GREAT SPIRIT, A poem by Nicola Romanski


       THE MARKS OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN


       ST. ANDREWS CHURCH, TIBERIUS


      AN ANTHOLOGY OF SCOTTISH CONSCIOUSNESS by the Leith Walk Rhymers


      ON BEING BOTH GAY AND CHRISTIAN


      SPIRITUAL POEMS INSPIRED BY OLD SAINT PAUL'S


     WHERE LUCIFER LINGERS (Songwriter Ron Lindsay)



                                                     



                                                 

Mary Magdelene (BBC i player and more)


                                          This is one of my series of Christian-related blog posts


                                                                         



                                                    MARY MAGDELENE (BBC i player)




                                                                    WIKI


                                                                   



                                                 WHO WAS MARY MAGDELENE?




                                                                           


                                            Jesus 'married Mary Magdalene and had children'



                                       ALL THE WOMEN IN THE BIBLE--MARY MAGDELENE

                               
                                                                               


                                       THE MYSTERIES OF MARY MAGDELENE

                                                                             

                                                                               







                               WAS JESUS MARRIED? A CAREFUL LOOK AT THE REAL EVIDENCE


                                                             








Wednesday 24 February 2016

TO CHANGE EVERYTHING: AN ANARCHIST APPEAL


                     I am by no means an anarchist, but Jesus may have been an anarchist, and they do come up with some interesting suggestions----


                                                TO CHANGE EVERYTHING



                                                       














ST. IVES, CORNWALL

  I worked as a barman in St, Ives during the Summer of 1967. Take the Penzance train from Plymouth, but change at St.Erth, and you will approach St. Ives via a very pretty branch line            

                                   
















John Payne memorial, St Ives
The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish Saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and St Ives derives from it.[3][4]

Rocky landscape
The Sloop Inn, which lies on the wharf was a fisherman's pub for many centuries and is dated to "circa 1312", making it one of the oldest inns in Cornwall. The town was the site of a particularly notable atrocity during the Prayer Book rebellion of 1549. The English Provost Marshal (Anthony Kingston) came to St Ives and invited the portreeve, John Payne, to lunch at an inn. He asked the portreeve to have the gallows erected during the course of the lunch. Afterwards the portreeve and the Provost Marshal walked down to the gallows; the Provost Marshal then ordered the portreeve to mount the gallows. The portreeve was then hanged for being a "busy rebel".
The seal of St Ives is Argent, an ivy branch overspreading the whole field Vert, with the legendSigillum Burgi St. Ives in Com. Cornub. 1690.[5]
During the Spanish Armada of 1597 two Spanish ships, a bark and a pinnace had made their way to St Ives to seek shelter from the storm which had dispersed the Spanish fleet. They were captured by the English warship Warpsite of Sir Walter Raleigh leaking from the same storm. The information given by the prisoners was vital on learning the Armada's objectives