The Paternal State and Tyranny
The new paternal state, despite its benevolent trappings, carried the potential for the unlimited exercise of power and despotism. With such barriers to state power as the Church and the aristocracy weakened by the advance of popular democracy, egalitarianism, and industrialization, it seemed to Burckhardt only a matter of time before state power would be put in the service of tyranny. —Alberto R. Coll, Foreword, Burckhardt, Judgments on History and Historians
Why say good? One is good, who is God. If you want life keep the commandments. Sc. 71, Matthew 19:17, Mark 10:18–19, Luke 18:19–20
Spiritual advisors – and the Church generally – might do well do ponder these words of Christ.
Anti- , pro-, -phobia, -philia should be legal. Government should limit itself to enforcing: “Crime you cannot commit.”
The average man cannot do the sum, he does not follow the reasoning, but he knows the answer. —John Jay Chapman, “The Unity of Human Nature”
I imagine that the “Palestinians” – whoever they were – were angry when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their homeland.
The environment of politics is circumstance. Politicians should change their minds – or at least their actions – when circumstances change. The State is in danger when politicians become philosophers.
Possible freeze this week.
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William Schmitt, Way of Martyrs
Richard Holmes, Are you there, God?
Mary at Westminster Presbyterian Church last Sunday. Emmanuel Baptist Church in the background.
Between Israel and no Israel: Israel
I know the girls. Who’s the guy?
In Guilderland, not the Amazon.
77 ° in Albany, NY, on Oct. 27.
Evidence of lower is not evidence against higher.
Go out into the roads and the fields and force those you find to come in, until my house is full. Sc. 64, Luke 14:23
God’s kingdom has been coming in strength and seizing strong men. Sc. 36, cf. Matthew 11:12
Castellio’s family called itself Châteillon, Châtillon, or Châtaillon; under the Savoyard rule, perhaps Castellione or Castiglione. —Stefan Zweig, The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin
… Luther, Lhuder, Lutter, or Lotharius as he was variously known … —Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, p. 4
Price of a buttermilk biscuit, Chatham, NY
July 21, 2021: $3.00
Nov. 13, 2021: $3.75
April 23, 2023: $3.95
Oct. 24, 2023: $4.25