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Increasingly, people are beginning to realize that their liberties are not secured by a piece of paper, even one revered as much as the Constitution. Criticizing constitutions, though, is not new.

Read for yourself Jeremy Bentham’s Anarchical Fallacies.

I was troubled by a recent article by Owen Anderson published over on American Reformer and after stewing about it for a week, thought I should write a response.

Canada has once again become the global epicentre of managerial tyranny. Its time to do some explaining and pierce through the narratives to understand at a deeper level what is going on.

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I have long time mutual and friend, Bits of Paul, on to talk about something very close to his heart: Christian worship.

Paul and I begin our whole discussion of Christian worship and the music we use to worship by discussing the whole genre of “Jesus is my boyfriend” type songs. From there we discuss the divide between low church and high church, which we agree is maybe not the most important distinction. In the end, we both agree that the real problem is the effect of making “accessibility” a primary goal of the worship service as opposed to “meeting God.” We complexify it and try not to give easy answers. I think you will really enjoy this conversation. It was one of my favourites.

I am joined by Ron Dodson and The Black Horse to talk about a problem that is on the lips of everyone these days on the Online Right: distributed ownership and the problems it creates.

Many people talk about renewing federalism in response to the centralized administrative state. And those who like to talk about possible political solutions to the centralization of power almost never acknowledge that business and economic consolidation leading to national and multi-national corporations is almost as much, if not more, of a problem than the political consolidation of power. If we are to devolve political power, returning it to a more local scale, in a way that does not break society, it must be understood that we must localize economic activity and scale first. Grappling with that hornet’s nest of problems means addressing the question of distributed ownership and the criminal and civil liability of owners for the actions of their business ventures. I have Ronald Dodson and The Black Horse on to discuss the subject.

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Athenian Stranger and I get together to discuss the modern origins and interest in pagan revival in Europe during the modern period.

We go through a lot of material here and try to approach this from a philosophical and history of scholarship to address the question of where this interest comes from and why it started happening in the modern period. The answers are in some ways more mundane than you might think but also much bigger in scope than many realize. We do not get into the specifics of the content of today’s internet neo-paganism, which is probably the least interesting part of this whole discussion. I have enjoyed reading the Eddas and other primary source materials myself and will do so again in the future. But that is not what this discussion is about.

If you have questions, please do ask them in the comments and Athenian and I may do a follow up episode.

Also: Athenian mentions the one passage in the New Testament which mentions the word philosophy — φῐλοσοφῐ́ᾱ — and I said it was from 1 Corinthians 1-2. I was mixing up the words “wisdom” and “philosophy.” The actual text is Colossians 2:8 …

Βλέπετε μή τις ὑμᾶς ἔσται ὁ συλαγωγῶν διὰ τῆς φιλοσοφίας καὶ κενῆς ἀπάτης, κατὰ τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, κατὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου καὶ οὐ κατὰ Χριστόν

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

Many have tried to tackle the question of why the Christian church dwindled in the modern age. One answer is that perhaps it is trying to become "modern," but modernity does modern better.

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Brandon listened to my conversation with Nate Fischer on this subject a while back and had some thoughts he wanted to add to the discussion. We finally managed to connect and have that talk.

In the opening set up for my conversation with Brandon, I had assumed that I had talked with Nate 10 months or a year ago, but it was just December of last year. If you haven’t listened to that episode and want to set the table for my chat with Brandon, you can listen to it here: https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/26-nate-fischer-can-technology-solve

Building on my post from a couple of weeks ago about the imago Dei as the "person-in-community," the theology of the image of God has social, moral and political implications.