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Gerald J. Beyer. “Solidarity by Grace, Nature or Both? The Possibility of Human Solidarity in the Light of Evolutionary Biology and Catholic Moral Theology.” The Heythrop Journal 54.5 (2013): via academia Web Accessed 26 June 2026. [https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.12030] I am fairly harsh on Catholicism, that variation of Christianity with its origins as a rogue version of an imperial cult gone into universal…

Mapping Christian byways of worldbuilding by way of a flowchart. an aside The usage of terms like “worldbuilding” here is the reason this writing has been written, i.e. I hope I can more fully explore and explain what wworlding is, as a substitute for a lot of 'things' that are outcomes of the moral/worlding urge, but we treat as causal,…

Over the last week I have been reading Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. books.google.com/ngrams/ It’s a whole world of pain. For more discussion on Appropriation (art) and Reappropriation see Mary Beth Willard’s 'Why It’s Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists' So, at dinner the other night I was at the second stage of…

To build a better world, we should destroy the Catholic Church Fideism & Obedience : the extra bit about St Augustine of Hippo Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art The Catholic Church is a technocracy a bit contra: Reading Beyer: Solidarity by Grace, Nature or Both? Fideism, reason and… —the gap that is always there Inappropriation (Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman…