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He [Hirst] says his dramas are not documentaries but the details are rooted in history: “Just like Shakespeare’s history plays, they only start with some historical facts, then the drama takes over. You can’t have both.”
I disagree. History has plenty of drama and doesn’t require artificially injecting it with pointless love triangles and sex. Its the big reason why this past season of Vikings was incredibly boring despite plenty of history to draw upon. I’m cautiously following this development.
O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Le dix d’avril ils sont partis (2x)
Pavillon haut, grande réjouissance
C’était pour naviguer en France
Ont aperçu un bateau blancOnt aperçu un corsaire de guerre
Qui les poursuivait par derrière
Trois coups de canon ils ont tiré (2x)
Un boulet a frappé l’arrière
Le sang coulait comme une rivière
Capitaine s’est écrié
Y a t’y de nos gens qui sont blessés
Ah oui vraiment capitaine
Il y a z’ici notre contremaître
Beau contremaître mon bel ami
N’as-tu point regret de mourir
Le seul regret que j’ai dans ce monde
C ‘est de mourir sans voir ma blonde
Ta blonde nous l’enverrons chercher (2x)
Par quatre officiers d’Amérique
Qui sont ici sur la mer jolie
D’aussi loin qu’il la voit venir
Ses pleurs elle ne peut retenir
Pleurez pas tant chère matte blonde
Car ma douleur est si profonde
J’échangerais mon cotillon (2x)
Mon anneau d’or et puis ma coiffure
Galant pour guérir ta blessure
« Un accent communique des informations sociales sur une personne. Par exemple, l’accent dit beaucoup sur sa provenance géographique. Et des préjugés y sont rattachés. On aura tendance à attribuer à cette personne certaines caractéristiques. »
« Il y a différentes façons de prononcer les mots. Ça ne veut pas forcément dire que les gens sont moins capables de parler français. Ça veut juste dire que ça prend une autre forme. »
« Tout le monde a un accent. On dit parfois que l’accent ne vient pas de la bouche, ou du coeur, mais de l’oreille de celui qui écoute. »
If the gospel is not preached with conviction—the convictions that humanity is in need of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the fullness of our humanity and gives us eternal life—then the gospel will not be believed.
If ministers of the gospel indulge in gratuitous virtue-signaling by promoting the worst of black legends, as if the sum total of Christianity’s impact on world history were embodied by “the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition,” why would anyone come to their churches or listen to whatever’s being offered there by way of I’m-OK-You’re-OK therapeutic balm?
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/02/men-without-conviction-churches-without-people
The alt-right is anti-Christian. Not by implication or insinuation, but by confession. Its leading thinkers flaunt their rejection of Christianity and their desire to convert believers away from it. Greg Johnson, an influential theorist with a doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University of America, argues that “Christianity is one of the main causes of white decline” and a “necessary condition of white racial suicide.” Johnson edits a website that publishes footnoted essays on topics that range from H. P. Lovecraft to Martin Heidegger, where a common feature is its subject’s criticisms of Christian doctrine. “Like acid, Christianity burns through ties of kinship and blood,” writesGregory Hood, one of the website’s most talented essayists. It is “the essential religious step in paving the way for decadent modernity and its toxic creeds.”
The temptation to dismiss the alt-right should be resisted. Like Christians in late antiquity, we ought to see ourselves through the eyes of our pagan critics and their growing ranks of online popularizers. They distort many truths, through both malice and ignorance, and lead young men into espousing views and defending authors they scarcely understand. Yet we can learn from their distortions, and in doing so show how Christian theology, whose failings have contributed to the movement’s rise, might also be its remedy.
The alt-right’s understanding of human identity is reductive, and its rejection of Christian solidarity premature. “Christianity provides an identity that is above or before racial and ethnic identity,” Richard Spencer complains. “It’s not like other religions that come out of a folk spirit.” Spencer is right that the baptismal covenant transcends our local loyalties and identities. It does not, however, eradicate them.
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/03/the-anti-christian-alt-right#login
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