#Christian heritage

[blackswaneuroparedux]

There is great irony in the fact that the modern process of stamping out religion produces countless caricatures of it.

René Girard

#girard #rené girard #religion #secularism #postmodernism #christian heritage #the west #civilisation #society #spiritual #mimetic theory #french #philosopher

[mjalford98]

St George & Merry England!

This country may have a more complicated past than some may like to think, but let us never forget that which made our country great. Let us build upon it, learning from the successes as well as the mistakes and failures; let us make England great again and put the "Great" back into "Great Britain!"

Work is underway rebranding my website as part of my developing photography & photojournalism business, with the aim of having my "Michael's Mission" blog/podcast launch on Pentecost Sunday 19th May. Together we can restore England to her true greatness and help other nations revive theirs too!

Happy St George's Day everyone!

#England #history #heritage #St George's Day #Great Britain #blog #podcast #Traditionalism #Localism #photography #Christendom #Traditional Catholic #Tradentine Mass #community #culture #Christian heritage #Europe #Catholicism #entrepreneur #Christian photographer #liturgy #church #Catholic entrepreneur

[beyondcommonsense]

Transported

Remember all those who walked the path of faith before you, and take courage to walk your path this day no matter what it brings.

I sit here in my kitchen-cozy spot. I can look out onto my little, bubbling pond. I peek at the roses, now nearly done for the season. I love my kitchen: the hutch in the corner, bought so long ago from a dear friend, filled with Village Pfaltzgraph pieces; the little coffee nook; the pumpkin flower arrangement sitting atop the fall tablecloth; the beautiful handmade cutting board with its etched…

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#Bible study #Christian heritage #cloud of witnesses #Ephesians 3 #faith #God&039;s Word #Hebrews 11 #Israel #Israeli War #persecuted #persecuted Christians

[odinsblog]

Donald Trump took the stage in Greensboro, N.C. last Saturday calling for rounding up millions of Latinos across America and putting them in mass detention camps as part of “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Unfortunately, this kind of rhetoric has become so common among the MAGA Republican playlist that it’s tempting to see it as a joke. But that wasn’t just somebody’s racist grandfather running off at the mouth or a standup comedian with bad taste playing to the crowd. My parents and grandparents would have called it a dog whistle, but my generation should know it’s a bullhorn. But whatever you call it, it was calculated, drafted, tested and approved as part of the far-right Project 2025 plan to turn back the clock on civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights and democracy itself. It was the white Christian nationalist agenda on full public display in all its un-American glory and we can’t afford to take it lightly.

Now, if you haven’t heard about Project 2025, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Founded in 2022 by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, it’s an organization led by Trump insiders preparing for one nation under Trump if the twice impeached and four times indicted former president wins the November election and to call them dangerous is an understatement.

What do you think about overhauling federal law enforcement so that the Department of Justice and the FBI, designed to be independent and insulated from political influence, were controlled directly by a newly elected and emboldened President Trump so he could protect his minions from investigation, arrest and prosecution no matter how many laws they broke? Project 2025 loves the idea.

Want to bypass the Senate confirmation process and stop notifying Congress when we sell weapons to foreign governments? Project 2025 does. What about terminating every diversity, equity and inclusion program in the federal government? Project 2025 says right on. What do you think about invoking martial law, using the military as local law enforcement and locking up Trump opponents? Project 2025 calls that progress.

But how do they plan on doing all this? After all, the federal government is more than just one person in the Oval Office. Trump already learned that lesson when federal employees and even some of his own appointees refused to break the law just because he said so.

But Project 2025 has a solution to that roadblock. They call it Schedule F and it’s a plan to fire as many as 50,000 federal employees and replace them with dyed-in-the-wool MAGA fanatics who swear their loyalty not to America or the Constitution but to Donald J. Trump. They’re not even trying to keep it a secret. But why would they?

You see, Project 2025 isn’t confused about who they are. They’re the MAGA Manifesto committed to the unapologetic vision of right-wing nationalism and they don’t care who knows it. Let’s be honest, these guys are attacking President Biden for pushing “racial equity in every area of our national life, including in employment.” Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Are we supposed to think our president should not be fighting for equality and justice?

That’s what Project 2025 says. But that shouldn’t surprise us. After all, they don’t think folks who look like me are real Americans. Neither does Trump.

But they’re not clowns. They’re highly trained, well-funded political operatives dedicated to winning in November and remaking America in their white nationalist image. They’ve spent the past two years putting together a plan to do just that setting the highest stakes imaginable for this election.

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#politics #donald trump #republicans #fair housing act #project 2025 #schedule f #white supremacy #christian nationalism #heritage foundation #a second trump administration will be very very bad #maga manifesto

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Fire breaks out at Copenhagen's stock exchange | REUTERS

16 April 2024

A fire ripped through Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, one of the Danish capital's best-known buildings, engulfing its spire, which collapsed in a scene reminiscent of the 2019 blaze at Paris' Notre-Dame.

#Copenhagen Stock Exchange #Copenhagen #Denmark #Børsen building #cultural heritage #famous landmark #King Christian IV #Dutch Renaissance #Old Stock Exchange #fire #Copenhagen Fire #17th Century Børsen #dragon tail spire #Notre Dame Fire 2019 #Youtube #Børsen

[yorksnapshots]

Let's go inside -

St. Mary's Chapel, Lead, North Yorkshire, England.

#Door #Entrance #Church #Prayer #Religion #Christian #Christianity #Parable #Bible #God #Academia #History #Heritage #Vintage #Warmcore #Softcore #Grandmacore #Places #Aesthetic #Photography

[dramoor]

“In Holy Baptism, we are not merely ‘joining the Church,’ nor are we merely ‘washing away our sins.’ Holy Baptism is not a rite of membership. Rather, Holy Baptism is being plunged into the death of Christ (Romans 6:3) and raised into the likeness of Christ’s resurrection. Believers are given a Cross to wear as part of their Baptism – a token to remind us that our new life is nothing other than living in union with the Crucified Christ.”

~Fr. Stephen Freeman

(Photos © dramoor 2015 Neonian Baptistry 5th century, Ravenna, Italy)

#Orthodox Christian #Neonian Baptistry #Ravenna Italy #travel #Fr. Stephen Freeman #Holy Baptism #photography #photographers on tumblr #Scriptures #Lord Jesus #UNESCO World Heritage Site #mosaics #ancient Christian monument

[a-willing-heart]

"Landskap i Kaupanger med en stavkirke" (1847) by Johan Christian Dahl

#art #stave church #johan christian dahl #norway #heritage

[redshift-13]

A worthwhile read even for political nerds who've already heard of Project 2025 - the conservative plan to radically remake government should Trump or another Republican win the White House.

What stood out to me was information about Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, who is also the writer of the forward to Project 2025's 920 page report.

Thomas Zimmer writes,

One of the more frustrating aspects of studying and talking about American politics is that if you simply trace the radicalization of the Right and the Republican Party, there is a good chance a mainstream audience will dismiss you as a leftwing conspiracy theorist or an unhinged “activist.” Donald Trump’s outrageousness notwithstanding, it is difficult to convey to people who don’t pay much attention to politics how much the power centers of conservative politics have been taken over by anti-democratic extremism. One way to deal with this problem is to get people to actually read and listen to what emanates from the Right...

One measure of irrationalism (or ignorance) is the extent to which one rejects facts (or the most reasonable explanation) or embraces beliefs that are mistaken for facts.

In this regard Kevin Roberts is an egregious offender. For example, he denies climate change, a stance that in 2024 presupposes so much cognitive bias and ignorance that it's jaw dropping.

He also believes that Trump won the election,

Asked about whether or not he believed Joe Biden had won the 2020 election, the flatly answered: “No” – and simply insisted that Heritage had an “election-fraud database” of its own to prove he was right.

Dozens of court cases have found no evidence of this claim. The idea that Heritage nonetheless harbors a golden database vindicating Trump but refuses to make this information known in a court of law defies belief. It forces the working assumption that Roberts not only has no evidence confirming Trump's win, but that his belief that he does is a hopeful delusion, an idée fixe of the hyper-partisan who can't let go. Roberts is in thrall to the false liberation of emotional certainty that's retracted its anchor to reality.

What then happens to democracy, to the future of a geographically and legally unified country, to civil peace, to taking intelligent legislative action on any front, when one of our two political parties and its ideological base succumbs to irrationalism and a world of beliefs that have little connection to reality?

#project 2025 #thomas zimmer #kevin roberts #heritage foundation #the intellectual collapse of conservatism #christian nationalists in the news

[mjalford98]

A collection of photos from the St Patrick's Day parade in Bristol on Sunday 17th of March. For a celebration of traditional Irish culture, it was quite modern and flamboyant, and not without its references to more progressive political agendas (though I've heard of worse), it was wonderful to see how many people come together to enjoy and appreciate a culture that, inasmuch as it has spread across the globe, remains of distinct localised origin.

This is why I am a photographer, to explore in visuals culture in all its various forms, the good, the bad, and the ugly, exploring what makes communities tick, what brings people together, and what pulls them apart. It is local culture that brings communities together, forging links between people and the places the live in, no matter their origin or background, and if we want local and national cultures to continue playing that role, then we must do everything to preserve their identity and uniqueness through all the cultural convolutions of an increasingly globalised world.

#St Patrick's Day #Bristol #parade #shamrock #bishop #Traditionalist #culture #politics #community #photography #city life #localism #Irish culture #Irish traditional music #celebration #heritage #local culture #popular culture #folk culture #folk music #Irish folk music #national culture #cultural identity #culture photography #Christianity #Christian heritage

[beyondcommonsense]

Notable Leaders

We live on the information highway—information is everywhere, even on the back of Sunday’s bulletin! Whether we are still living in a Christian America is certainly up for debate, but no matter the final conclusion no one can erase our Christian heritage—especially this one: Four massive sixty-foot heads rise majestically in granite in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The faces of George…

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#Christian America #Christian heritage #Christian principles #christianity #Gutzon Borglum #Independence Day #liberty #Mount Rushmore #presidents

[phoebepheebsphibs]

So this happened to me in one of my college classes and I thought it was hilarious

So I made a goofy comic about it

Oh yeah and I definitely used this as reference for my classmate's reaction

#jewish american heritage month #cultural jew #completed jew #christian faith #Christian #art class #art student

[anarchistfrogposting]

what religion would your family would consider itself practicing ancestrally?

My family were historically Unitarian Christian (my great grandad got the white feather for refusing to be conscripted into the British Army in WW1!) but I’m an atheist personally.

#religion #heritage #Christian #muslim #Hindu #buddhist #sikh #Jewish #atheist #atheism #poll

[tomorrowusa]

A MAGA think tank (sort of an oxymoron) published a document with the official title Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise but is widely known as Project 2025 after the name of the group inside the Heritage Foundation which compiled it. Whatever you call it, it is a bloodcurdling blueprint of the shape a second Trump administration would take.

Carlos Lozada of the New York Times read 887 pages of it so we don't have to.

[W]hat is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service. “Mandate for Leadership,” which was edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation, is not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day but about consolidating authority and eroding accountability for the long haul. It calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds. Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the law as an impediment to conservative governance. It elevates the role of religious beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness. And for all the book’s rhetoric about the need to “dismantle the administrative state,” it soon becomes clear that vanquishing the federal bureaucracy is not the document’s animating ambition. There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but “Mandate for Leadership” is about capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it. The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.

We hear a lot of far right rhetoric about destroying "the deep state" or "the administrative state" – particularly from the odious Steve Bannon. But what's clear from Project 2025 is that what MAGA really intends is an unfriendly takeover of "the administrative state".

Executing a conservative president’s agenda “requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it,” the document says on its opening page. The phrasing quickly grows militaristic: The authors wish to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day 1 to deconstruct the administrative state.” That deconstruction can be blunt. Portions of “Mandate for Leadership” read as though the authors did a Control-F search of the executive branch for any terms they deemed suspect and then deleted the offending programs or offices. The White House’s Gender Policy Council must go, along with its Office of Domestic Climate Policy. The Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is a no-no. The E.P.A. can do without its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should be dismantled because it constitutes “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.”

Making the US safe for fossil fuel companies is a HŪGE Trump priority which gets too little attention. Remember "drill drill drill" from Trump's dictator interview? If there's any hope of reversing climate change, you can kiss it goodbye if Republicans win in November.

Of course abortion is a target of Project 2025. Christian nationalism would become the semi-official ideology.

If “Mandate for Leadership” has its way, the next conservative administration will also target the data gathering and analysis that undergirds public policy. Every U.S. state should be required by Health and Human Services to report “exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence and by what method.” By contrast, the government should prohibit the collection of employment statistics based on race or ethnicity, and the Centers for Disease Control should discontinue gathering data on gender identity, on the grounds that such collection “encourages the phenomenon of ever-multiplying subjective identities.” (Why the executive branch might concern itself with the subjective identities of American citizens becomes clearer some 25 pages later, when the document affirms that the government should “maintain a biblically based, social-science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.”)

A far right army of ideological zealots is to be recruited to replace anybody in the federal government not sufficiently pro-Trump.

One of the “pillars” of Project 2025 is the creation of a personnel database — a sort of “right-wing LinkedIn,” The Times has reported, seeking to attract some 20,000 potential administration officials. “Mandate for Leadership” maintains that “empowering political appointees across the administration is crucial to a president’s success,” and virtually every chapter calls for additional appointees to wrest power from longtime career staff members in their respective departments.

In short... (emphasis added)

This book does not call for an effort to depoliticize the administrative state. It simply wishes to politicize it in favor of a new side. Everybody does it; now it’s our turn. Get over it.

The book is hardly a secret. The far right is quite open about its intent.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise (PDF)

As with Mein Kampf, we know ahead of time what the bad guys will do if they hold power. We need to take the danger more seriously than Germany of the early 1930s.

What's needed to defeat Trump is a pro-democracy mobilization of the United States. That means putting aside ideological quibbles with other anti-Trump groupings and becoming more politically active in real life.

EDIT: Tumblr is telling me that the link to Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise isn't working and refuses to let me post it. But I just checked it twice and it's fine. Until this peculiar glitch gets fixed, go to this Substack article and click "Mandate for Leadership" in the middle of the first paragraph.

#donald trump #the gop #danger to democracy #outline for dictatorship #project 2025 #mandate for leadership: the conservative promise #christian nationalism #abortion #fossil fuels #climate change #republicans #maga think tank #the heritage foundation #carlos lozada #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who #help save democracy

[agentfascinateur]

May you soar, Palestine

And reach great heights 🙏🏼🇺🇳

#palestine #palestinians #support for palestine #unsc #un membership #free palestine #free gaza #holy land #justice #self determination #freedom #democracy #equal rights #human dignity #future generations #children #gaza #west bank #rafah #world heritage #jerusalem #peace #islam #christianity #true judaism #no more war #end occupation #end illegal settlements #end genocide #end the childrens holocaust

[norman-couple]

I’ve always believed Mormonism and Islam are pure evil and don’t even get me started on democracy

#Islam #mormon #mormonism #allah #anti Islam #christianity #old testament #history #heritage #paganism #pagan #lucifer