In These Times

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• • 21 Oct 05
  • 12:58 am

  My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and …

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• • 21 Oct 05
  • 1:00 am

  The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life.... The National Government regard the two Christian Confessions as the weightiest factors for the maintenance of our nationality. They will respect the agreements concluded between them and the federal States. Their rights are not to be infringed.... It will be the Government's care to maintain honest co-operation between Church and State; the struggle against materialistic views and for a real national community is just as much in the interest of the …

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• • 21 Oct 05
  • 1:03 am

  Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions. -Adolf Hitler, speaking in the Reichstag on 30 Jan. 1934

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• • 21 Oct 05
  • 10:52 am

  It is the difference between having some understanding that at our highest levels of consciousness we are perhaps made in the image of God and humbly trying to surrender to and harmonize with that flow of the authentic expansive, principles universe, And, in a contracted desire for control over the universe, making "God" in our own image and using him as an agent and a vehicle for our own will. The one has to do with spirituality, the nuturing and development of the natural spirit of the human collective: the other has to do with religion, the imposition of (often unexamined) …

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• • 21 Oct 05
  • 12:48 pm

  Luminous Beauty, You are exciting. What a fine, discriminating intellect you have. That and your soulfulness inspire my admiration. Apparently, your obvious attributes are all well-earned and related to your real life as you live it. This is certainly not a come-on, and I don't want to presumed to get personal. Yet, based upon what has been shared in this forum and the one other that I have visited, my curiosity and interest in you as a person, as a philosopher, as an example of a life-being-lived have been piqued. I too lived collectively back in my Berkeley days. 'and it …

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