The Greek priest is trying to stop the rioter from attacking the police.
Thanks to Fr. Maximos Weimar
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Clerical Activism
The Greek priest is trying to stop the rioter from attacking the police.
Thanks to Fr. Maximos Weimar
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Echo Beach, From ITV
I'm talking about the opening song, not the show. Nicely done, with an almost hammered dulcimer effect. Stops too early, though.
The second clip is the Echo Beach original sung by Martha and the Muffins from the early New Wave era. Nice alto sax solo.
The second clip is the Echo Beach original sung by Martha and the Muffins from the early New Wave era. Nice alto sax solo.
Mises On The Greek Church
In Socialism, Ludwig von Mises said some pretty awful things about Orthodoxy, and I laugh whenever I read them:
There was the same inertia in the polytheistic religions of antiquity and there still is in the Eastern Church. The Greek Church has been dead for over a thousand years.[1] Only in the second half of the nineteenth century did it once more produce a man in whom faith and hope flared up like fire. But Tolstoy's Christianity, however much it may bear a superficially Eastern and Russian hue, is at bottom founded on Western ideas. It is particularly characteristic of this great Gospeller that, unlike the Italian merchant's son, Francis of Assisi, or the German miner's son, Martin Luther, he did not come from the people but from the nobility which, by upbringing and education, had been completely Westernized. The Russian Church proper has produced at most men like John of Kronstadt or Rasputin. These dead churches lack any special ethics. Harnack says of the Greek Church: [2] "The real sphere of the working life whose morality is to be regulated by the Faith, falls outside its direct observation. This is left to the state and the nation."
What Mises says here can be juxtaposed interestingly with Fr. Stephen's post, Why Morality is Not Christian.
There was the same inertia in the polytheistic religions of antiquity and there still is in the Eastern Church. The Greek Church has been dead for over a thousand years.[1] Only in the second half of the nineteenth century did it once more produce a man in whom faith and hope flared up like fire. But Tolstoy's Christianity, however much it may bear a superficially Eastern and Russian hue, is at bottom founded on Western ideas. It is particularly characteristic of this great Gospeller that, unlike the Italian merchant's son, Francis of Assisi, or the German miner's son, Martin Luther, he did not come from the people but from the nobility which, by upbringing and education, had been completely Westernized. The Russian Church proper has produced at most men like John of Kronstadt or Rasputin. These dead churches lack any special ethics. Harnack says of the Greek Church: [2] "The real sphere of the working life whose morality is to be regulated by the Faith, falls outside its direct observation. This is left to the state and the nation."
What Mises says here can be juxtaposed interestingly with Fr. Stephen's post, Why Morality is Not Christian.
Sunday, September 04, 2011
Stepping Up Has Its Challenges
One priest's willingness to adopt babies to keep the mothers from aborting them shows no results.
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