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No Bang in “Gunpowder”

When one thinks of religious persecution, the first thing to come to mind is usually the Inquisition in all of its medieval harshness. One rarely thinks of the equally–if not more brutal protestant renditions, the English persecution in particular. When… Continue Reading →

The Surprising Origin of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” Song

You’re all familiar with the Christmas song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” I think. To most it’s a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written. It is a good deal… Continue Reading →

The Road to Heaven Leads Through Hell

When Jesus preached about the coming Kingdom of Heaven,  the people of Israel couldn’t hear the message. They had so deeply rationalized their faith that their hearts turned into dead stones. As Jesus noticed, “You know how to read the… Continue Reading →

Theo-Capitalism

Jordan Peterson in his lecture “Introduction to the idea of God” describes Nietzsche’s view on the medieval Europe in the following way: “Nietzsche said that he did not believe that the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground… Continue Reading →

The Non-Aggressive Church

This year marked the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation, the largest schism in Church history. Of course, in the seemingly, nominally important date of 2017, there was much talk among prominent church members, on both sides of the doctrinal divide,… Continue Reading →

The Uniqueness of Western Law: Part 3 – Christianity Takes Up the Torch of Hellenistic Natural Law

The notion that the same rules apply to all men later found a home with the kings of Northern Europe.  These tribes still possessed that Indo-European culture of the rule of an, albeit, customary law and the right to resist… Continue Reading →

The Uniqueness of Western Law: Part 2 – The Roman Confusion of Natural Law

Natural law was famously developed further by the Roman lawyer, Cicero, but, whilst Roman civil law was mostly privately developed, the various Roman systems of government were not consistent examples of natural law in practise.  Roman law developed primarily between… Continue Reading →

The Uniqueness of Western Law: Part 1 – The Origins of Natural Law

When accordingly it is inquired, whence is evil, it must first be inquired, what is evil, which is nothing else than corruption, either of the measure, or the form, or the order, that belong to nature. – St. Augustine  … Continue Reading →

The Boy Who Cried ‘Hate’

While snowflakes were falling over San Antonio last night, snowflakes everywhere were in a flurry over the downfall of The Libertarian Catholic Facebook page. In an abrupt conclusion to what had been a tempestuous week, Facebook made the decision to… Continue Reading →

Personal and Private Property: A Sociopath’s Distinction

In the recent “discussion” on our Facebook page about the Ramen Rich Girl, we posted a clever meme that we thought was pretty funny: All the lefties and socialists on the thread thought it was hilarious too but for a… Continue Reading →

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