Tag: politics
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Real and Symbolic Power
In a recent group discussion at church, Pope Francis’s death came up. We seemed to agree, spoken and unspoken, that he was a good man. A different kind of pope. His papacy was one that restored and reordered the Catholic church. Perhaps the church catholic too. He emphasized those things which are commanded unto us…
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This is sin
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MAGA Maoism
An interesting and new framework for me on the “left-is-right and right-is-left” phenomenon that’s being revealed.
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Sometimes, to make sense of absurd things, I like to imagine an alien visiting from another planet to view that thing and while I watch his reaction to it. For example: It’s sort of absurd, and video game-like, that you could be bitten by a particular kind of snake and just die — game over.…