Augustine begins the book by repudiating the liberal doctrines, false religion, sooth-saying, and astrology, but admits that he was attracted by all of them except the fortune-tellers who demanded sacrifices to daimonia.
Generally, as my father always said, a birthday is an occasion for rending one’s garments and scattering ashes over one’s head…
This week, I shall start out slow and try to post additions every day. Please tell me where you are in the Delitto
President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington, D.C. this week for his first state visit since 2015 with President Barack Obama. This time Xi comes as a conqueror. China is No. 1, the U.S. has become No. 2
I am reminded of a passage in A. J. P. Taylor’s English History.
Every day, I get a text or email or run across a “reel” on Facebook that says something like, “Quit saying ‘Sto bene,’ (or any one of dozens of everyday phrases, and then offers what real Italians say.”
I, too, grew up believing that we must “support Israel” because God said so. I believed it because I was told that by influential people in my life. But it’s not in the Bible.
For over ten years I am have been working, intermittently, on a course of lectures and/or written chapters on aspects of Ancient Greek morality, social and political institutions, civilization, literature, and philosophy, that would present the ancient Greeks from a rather different perspective than either the current Marxist-feminist attack on ancient racist patriarchs or the old Liberal defense of the founders of democracy, secular reason, and progress.
Augustine sees the most earthly desires as a feeble and dissolute shadow of the only reality, the Creator and His love for man who resists the love
I reason, however, that I’m but a step away from my seventieth year in this vale of tears and an old bore can always produce the plain and honest excuse that he is old.
