Tag Archives: ross douthat

mercy mercy them: the H word

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

An account of religious heresy. Hardly. No one can match Gottfried Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics. The Lutheran priest published the two volume tome in 1699 to almost universal disdain from within the Church and their … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albigensian Crusade, Arnaud Amalric, Cathar Crusade, Christian Heresies, Constantine Christianity, Constantine Roman Emperor, Constantine The Great, Duke de Montpensier, Gottfried Arnold, King Henry III, Pope Innocent III, Puritanism, Puritanism Christian heresy, ross douthat, Simon IV de Montfort, St. Bartholomew Day Massacre | Leave a comment

into the heartland of heresy: religion as a private matter

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

Heresies. Recurrent ideas which break through the continually sealed crust of orthodoxy because they contain an important truth or an irrepressible human aspiration. And they don’t seem limited to one religion. In fact, monotheism seems to reinforce their appearances… The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albigensian heresy, Arafat and John Paul II, Arafat and the Pope, Bill Maher atheism, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Goethe, Gottfried Arnold, Heresy of the Cathars, Heretics history, Jewish Heresies, John Wycliffe, Judith Butler, Maimonides, Montanist Church, Pedro Berruguete, Rambam, ross douthat, William Blake, Yitzhak Shamir | Leave a comment

assisted art

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Dave

It’s definitely low-brow. It does conjure up images of super-heroes. Not surprisingly, such controversial figures like “Dr. Death” tend to generate a fetish excitement. Jack Kevorkian’s defense that “acts by sheer common sense are not crimes,” posited a view of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged david gorosh, David Hume, david streets, diane coleman, j.w. ocker, jack kevorkian art, jack kevorkian paintings, mayer Morganroth, Michael Betzold, Physician assisted suicide, Rosa Parks, ross douthat | Leave a comment

Dionysian sacrifice

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Dave

Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading →