Author: Sheila Marler
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Same-Sex Marriage and a Woman’s Place
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Catholic Church is being criticized for its recent announcement that it will not bless same-sex unions. I’ve written previously about the problems I see in modern marriage, but that is not what I want to talk about here. The argument I’m making in this article is that the Catholic Church’s stance…
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Justice of the Rupture
Reading Time: 6 minutesLately I’ve been thinking about the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. He fasted for 40 days and was hungry, and during this time in the wilderness the devil tempted him three times. The first temptation had to do with Jesus’s hunger. The second temptation, as I understand it, was connected with…
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America’s War Against Political Modernization, 1775-2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesAmerica’s political system has been described by Loren Goldner ((Goldner, Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man, Queequeg Publications, New York, NY, 2006)) and others as a Tudor Polity. The jury is still out on whether this was a positive or negative development. The United States’ System Compared to Great…
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Melville, Marx and Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesI criticized some of Loren Goldner’s statements in a previous post, but now I want to praise his ideas for other reasons. I appreciate his explanation for why American radicalism differs from European radicalism. America’s Unique Connection to the Old Testament Americans have a different historical perspective than Europeans. In Goldner’s words, …
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Plato’s War on Women
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe foundation of the ancient Greeks’ project for civilization was their determination to turn the female sex into a subject population. But there were unintended consequences. Plato’s war on women helped bring about the end of monarchy. Philo There is evidence that the Greeks were toying with the idea of subjecting women…
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Who Are the Progressives’ Friends?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not trying to end to our conversation with people in these categories. I’m trying to clarify the position of progressives by comparison with competing voices in the “progressive” movement. I put progressive in quotation marks because there are non-progressive participants in this movement. In fact, there are categories of participants that…
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The Death of George Floyd
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe tried to defend the property rights of American Indians but the establishment made a point of laughing in our face. We raised the money and the votes to put our candidate in the White House but they ran their stable of corporate stooges against us. Now they want us to…
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The Criminal State
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are only two political rivals in the world today: organized crime and the state. It is true that there are many seemingly valid state ideologies vying for attention, but they are mostly different versions of the same idea, none of which defend the state in the way it needs to be…