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Reading Beyer: Solidarity by Grace, Nature or Both?

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…

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What is this thing the world?

The world goes on without each of us, beyond us. Below, the each of us can forget it all for a while, or reject it all for even longer, before it returns us all to ourselves, coming to us unbidden, with a wave. The world cannot go on at all, without us all attending to it, even as the each…

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Castles in the mud

I have a certain care or consideration for believers. This may not be apparent from reading my less than supportive posts on the imperial cult that is Christianity, and especially the rogue imperial sub-cult that is Catholicism, statist moves which give us the definition of religion and its over-application to practices which might best be regarded as ‘worlding’ rather than…

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“ 'to self the world' meets 'to world the self' ”

no enough words means we will always have too many Now…then— “to self the world” and “to world the self” are not the same, not the same as in an identical tautology, nor a tautological identity. They are not a reversible reaction, even if they recursively feed themselves with outcomes. Their trajectories are bothered confoundedly, but in that they differ…

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arting is a subset of worlding

intakes https://hyperallergic.com/865677/californias-iconic-salvation-mountain-designated-a-historic-site/ There is a term for people who make ‘art’ regardless/despite/because of what is going on in their lives and which labels them outsiders or naive. They may have an agenda, they may be mad, but the frame for calling them names is based on the art market terminology that real artists work in or aspire to be involved in.

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