L'égo est une carapace qui ne se détache pas

Paris n'est pas moins connu pour ses graffiti, dont certains en textes et en des textes très aphoristiques.

J'ai vu celui-ci au 13°.

Il y a une réponse.

Certains organismes, dont l'homme, ont une carapace intérieure qui n'a pas vocation de se détacher. On l'appelle normalement un squelette.

Je n'aimerais pas être détaché de mon squelette (au moins pas avant la mort)./HGL

Quelques gens me prétendraient l'égal social de l'sdf qui m'appelait "ouf" hier

Je ne change pas d'URL sur mon blog · Aucun de mes blogs ne s'appelle "blogspot" et pour aucun ce n'est l'adresse complète · Est-ce que les Noirs du quartier croient en Dieu ? · Imaginons que certains voudraient boire leur bière à l'endroit où j'ai mes choses · Quelques gens me prétendraient l'égal social de l'sdf qui m'appelait "ouf" hier

Notez, si un autre sdf veut être reconnu comme mon égal, genre s'il me propose un check ou s'il me dit salut, je vais le traiter en égal.

On est égaux dans le sens qu'on est, les deux, créés dans l'image du Dieu Trin et Un, le seul vrai Dieu.

On est égaux dans le sens que Jésus le Christ, étant Dieu avant tous les siècles, s'est fait homme pour que lui et moi puissions être sauvés. Il est mort sur une Croix pour lui et pour moi.

On est probablement aussi égaux dans le sens qu'il est baptisé et moi je le suis aussi, il me semblait être un Gaulois bien de souche.

Je n'ai aucune raison sauf snobisme social de ne pas le traiter en égal, et le snobisme social, ce n'est pas mon fort.

Par contre, celui d'hier, il voulait m'interpeller avec un insulte, avec les gestes suggérant un comportement fou (il dansait frénétiquement et portait une parapluie en plein soleil) et ce que j'ai entendu est "sh t'es ouf" et probablement donc "ouesh, t'es ouf" ... s'il n'avait pas dirigé ces mots à moi, j'aurais pu être légèrement amusé par son show.

J'admets avoir fait du snobisme social. J'avais un truc à faire dans la bibliothèque, devant l'écran, et je n'avais pas envie de m'embrouiller dans une altercation même juste verbale avec lui. Je ne me considère pas socialement juste à sa valeur, désolé de dire ces mots, je me considère socialement un peu son supérieur.

J'écris ceci pour qui ? Pour ceux qui, étant socialement les miens, mes supérieurs, voudraient me ramener à l'égalité social avec lui, donc à une obligation de répondre à son insulte sous peine de le laisser valoir.

Certains d'entre eux voudraient me prétendre grosso modo, je ne cite pas, mais j'interprète certains gestes et certains non-réponses, l'égal social de cet homme et pas du tout d'eux-mêmes. Ils voudraient me dire "joue avec tes égaux" ...

Et je voudrais répondre à ça.

Je serais l'égal de cet homme et non de Jérôme Bourbon, pour quelle raison ?

A) Parce que lui et moi dormons en d'endroits pas prévus pour dormir en des sacs de couchage et pas dans un lit ?

Les derniers semaines, alors, 200 000 Français et Espagnols ou je pense même 270 000 sont tombés à notre niveau social, dans ce cas.

B) Jérôme Bourbon est productif et ...

je ne sais pas pour cet sdf, c'est possible qu'il soit productif en comédie, show improvisé, mais, on s'y attend pas. Et je n'ai pas les moyens de vérifier.

Je le suis en tout cas, et pour quelqu'un qui ne s'y attend pas, je donne les moyens de vérifier. L'adresse d'un ou de plusieurs de mes blogs. Et je suis productif et lu :

Statistiques toutes les périodes, production et pages vues, hormis pays
https://nov9blogg9.blogspot.com/2026/07/statistiques-toutes-les-periodes.html

Je ne pense pas que l'sdf en question, s'il est excellent en comédie, se trouvera exclu d'une carrière sur la scène par mon acte de snobisme. J'espère dans ce cas le réparer par ce post.

Par contre, pas mal, par leur snobisme répété, m'ont exclu d'un revenu de mes écrits qui aurait été à leur portée de me fournir, et qui aurait à ma propre portée de le mériter. J'aimerais réparer ça aussi par ce post.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sainte Anthusa de Constantinople
27.VII.2026

Constantinopoli beatae Anthusae Virginis, quae, sub Constantino Copronymo, ob cultum sanctarum Imaginum, verberibus caesa et exsilio relegata, quievit in Domino.

Palestine Action, Zoe Rogers

So, Greta Was Arrested for Supporting Terrorist ... Prisoners? · Palestine Action, Zoe Rogers

Freed Palestine Action activist: ‘I will always want to do what is right’
The Observer UK | 11Febr. 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bb2VuywzMk

Deaf girl 12 year old girl shot at by police

Weiter offene Fragen nach Polizei-Schuss auf Zwölfjährige
Stand: 28.11.2025, 14:14 Uhr | Rainer Striewski
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/landespolitik/polizei-schuesse-bochum-maedchen-landtag-100.html

The story is basically, she lived in a kind of caring home, in a facility, had already eloped more than once, this time, she was searched and a policeman not knowing she was deaf summoned her and when she (deaf) didn't respond, shot.

I have already noted the absurdity on how the European Council's Declaration of Human Rights allows police to shoot, not just at searched criminals, but also at vagrants and people eloping from where government places them./HGL

PS, in case you wonder, as the article was written she was awake and "ansprechbar" / "could be talked to" and given she is deaf, I presume that means in sign language./HGL

Is There Traditional Property in the Digital Sphere?

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere: Replying to advice from Cameron Riecker · Mentor / Mentoree Dynamics Changing with Age Pyramid · New blog on the kid: Is There Traditional Property in the Digital Sphere? · To Whoever Tries to Tell Me I Write "Wrong" (Not Meaning I Am Wrong About a Subject, Which Would be a Matter for a Debate)

This video features products turning into rental services, and Nicole discusses pros and cons:

Everything Changes
According to Nicole | 11 May 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVdjKAf6nc4

My blogs are not this.

I own the texts.

Blogger owns my possibility of keeping them here. But not the texts themselves.

I have licenced them* for anyone who wants to print into material books, individual supports, which by definition you can keep and do what you will with once you acquire them by production, gift, purchase.

That's one reason why I do not try to publish my works as e-books, which, if on kindle, as Nicole said, Amazon could just withdraw, selectively from some or wholesale for all.

If I get 100 books into print of some collection**, and a Fahrenheit 451 scenario occurs, I'd like for it to be a chance that some random copy survived on a plane journey across an Ocean, or across a frontier (not sure whether the book refugee would go North or South across the Rio Grande or Tijuana) or whatever.

Yes, the version I am creating right now is digital. I have traditional property over it, referred to as copyright, and it can be translated to traditional property in the low-tech physical support sphere (if you call printing and binding a book low-tech, it's at least low-tech to keep it in your possession and access it***.)

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts Abdon and Sennen
30.VII.2025

Romae sanctorum Martyrum Abdon et Sennen Persarum, qui, sub Decio, catenis alligati et Romam adducti, pro Christi fide prius plumbatis caesi sunt, deinde gladio interfecti.

* The blogposts. For those with someone else's copyright relevant, like my dialogues with someone else, see: Copyright issues on blogposts with shared copyright which also links to my basic conditions: A little note on further use conditions
** Collection of my essays.
*** If kept in some bags of some homeless, it may also include an element of luck. Last week, someone gave me a tomato. I didn't want it immediately, put it in a bag, where as it happens there were books. When I decided to look after the tomato, it had gone moldy and ruined one or two books or so ...)

Genocidal "Theology" from Rabbis

WHAT ZIONIST RABBIS SAY ON MURDERING BABIES !
The Daily Reminder | 11 July 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sad9LETxKII

The text in the Torah is correct. It never involved God giving a general authorisation to kill babies, whereever, whenever, for a humanly assessable reason. It involved God killing babies by executioners, as He had killed babies with Flood water, at His own discretion.

However, pretending there is a standing principle rather than an exceptional order, here, is like justifying suicide bombers, because God authorised and even ordered Samson to be "a kamikaze" against the Philistines.

Exceptional orders from God reflect general principles, but cannot be applied as if they were general principles./HGL

Apologète n'est pas un titre

Je tombe sur la vidéo de Matthieu Lavagna, bel et bien un apologète selon le contenu de ses monographies, et j'essaie de vérifier les propos de l'Abbé Gleize sur lesquels il répond.

Et la page 8 du Courrier de Rome, accessible en ligne, du Novembre 2024, je trouve :

La suite ne s’est pas fait attendre : jeune diplômé (en 2019) de l’Institut privé Docteur angélique 1 patroné par Monsieur Arnaud Dumouch, s’intitulant « apologète », Mathieu Lavagna intervient régulièrement, pour aborder mille sujets, sur sa propre chaîne Youtube 2, « dédiée à l’apologétique catholique, c’est à dire à la défense rationnelle de la foi catholique », ainsi que sur nombre d’autres chaînes, comme celles de Marie de Nazareth 3, de KTO TV 4, de l’abbé Mathieu Raffray 5 ou d’Arnaud Dumouch 6.

Pourrait-on dire que Stéphane Bern s'intitule "historien" ou "patrimonialiste" ? Peu importe ici s'il a pris les mots dans sa propre bouche ou non, c'est sûr qu'il est parfois pris, et pas toujours à tort, comme référence dans l'histoire. Et qu'il l'a voulu. Par contre, le titre serait plutôt, animateur et écrivain, comme pour Matthieu Lavagna. Si on veut décrire Stéphane Bern ou Marion Sigaut comme des historiens, ou Matthieu Lavagna ou Gilbert Keith Chesterton comme des apologètes, ou moi-même* comme les deux, ceci n'est pas à prendre comme le titre.

Parfois, une description de métier est un titre, comme en France boulanger-patissier et il y a d'autres qui relèvent des Compagnons du Devoir et qui ont, peut-être aussi, leur "meilleur ouvrier de la France" de chaque année. Mais parfois, une description est juste une clarification de contenu.

Pour faire de l'apologétique, licitement, il faut :

• connaître la ou les vérités catholiques qu'on veut défendre ;
• connaître la ou les objections contre lesquelles on veut les défendre ;
• argumenter, idéalement bien (personne va denier à James White d'avoir agi en apologète du Protestantisme quand il a, semble-t-il, récemment argumenté mal contre Joe Heschmeyer, pas plus qu'on refuse de reconnaître Hannibal comme général s'il a perdu contre Scipion) ;
• éventuellement, si on veut le faire en écrit, avoir pour l'imprimé, livre ou autre, un nihil obstat et imprimi potest pour ce discours (qu'on peut avoir sans être reconnu comme Catholique, tant que c'est pour une vérité catholique qu'on s'est dépensé en écrivain), mais il semble qu'un dispositif liant en conscience les Novus Ordo, pris par "Paul VI", manque de ressources pour les Catholiques non-Novus Ordo et non-Una Cum, l'existence de l'internet avec sa rapidité de publication rendent cette condition obsolète.

Pour parler de s'intituler apologète, comment pense l'Abbé Gleize ?

Les ordres mineurs sont portier, lecteur, apologète, acolyte ? Non, c'est "exorciste" qu'il faut mettre là.

Ou chaque diocèse doit avoir un apologète en service, personne d'autres est censé faire de l'apologétique ? Encore une fois, c'est "exorciste" qu'il faut mettre là.

Ou "Apologète" est l'abrégé des titres "maître, docteur, professeur, professeur adjoint ès l'apologétique" ? Ça existe, mais depuis peu de temps. Gilbert Keith Chesterton n'avait pas obtenu ce genre de diplome avant de faire Everlasting Man. Cérise sur le gâteau, je ne pense pas qu'il avait même obtenu un nihil obstat, à moins d'en avoir obtenu l'équivalent moral, car sur le livre publié chez Hodder and Stoughton, Londres, imprimé chez Constable Ltd Edinburgh, ne porte pas de nihil obstat. Peut-être la note préfatoire est censé pallier à ce manque, car il dit :

This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. ...

Je pense par contre, même The Catholic Church and Conversion et Upon This Rock manquent nihil obstat (corrigez-moi si j'ai tort). Pourtant, Chesterton est un grand apologète, ainsi qu'une grande voix de la doctrine sociale de l'Église, puisant davantage en Rerum Novarum qu'en Quadragesimo Anno, donc plutôt Distributiste que Corporativiste (je suis, comme Belloc, les deux), et Pape Pie XI l'a décoré (ainsi qu'avec Hilaire Belloc).

Ce n'est donc pas correct qu'on ne puisse pas faire de l'Apologétique sauf en ayant une autorisation spéciale, comme désignation d'office, comme titre, ou autre.

Si l'idée de s'intituler Apologète vient, par contre, de Matthieu Lavagna et de l'Institut privé Docteur angélique vient de Monsieur Arnaud Dumouch, j'y vois une tentative d'emprise sur les libertés que certains ont à mi-cœur promue. Et notamment pour des mobiles pas tout à fait honnêtes, comme de réserver le "titre" (qui n'en n'est pas, ni canoniquement, ni légalement devant la loi civile) pour des gens qui prennent Bergoglio pour le pape et le créationnisme jeune terre pour une position théologique obsolète.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Mercredi des Cendres
5.III.2025

* En anglais, à part les débats, je pose le contenu apologétique sur trois blogs, en occurrence :

Creation vs. Evolution, dédié à l'apologétique naturelle en ce qui concerne la réfutation de l'Évolutionnisme, l'apologétique de l'inerrance biblique en tant qu'elle concerne les premiers 11 chapitres de la Genèse, ou de la chronologie biblique (du martyrologe romain);

somewhere else, le reste de l'apologétique naturelle, le reste de l'inerrance biblique, l'apologétique chrétienne, contre Athées et Juifs;

Great Bishop of Geneva! l'apologétique catholique, contre les Protestants et les Modernistes.

J'ai aussi un blog, en anglais et français, cette fois, dédié à l'histoire, à l'histoire culturelle, aux langues et aux lettres :

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica

Christ is King

Christ: KING of the UNITED STATES
Scholastic Answers | 10 Febr. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGt0qjKrDwE

Mr. Vance, Did You Know That ...

... A, the sanctity of Church asylum is a tradition of the Church going back to when it became legal?
... B, this had a precedent in the Old Covenant?

The need to protect the public is actually met by keeping someone in a sanctuary. And some violent criminals are in fact not very violent people, if only certain others would leave them alone.

I was convicted of violent crime once. It was in 1998. About a month earlier, I had been acquitted.

So, I was only convicted in a court of appeal.

The people I would have preferred to be left alone from were mental health professionals.

I have spent 20 years in France (or it will be 20 years a few months from now) and 15 + years in Paris with surroundings. The time in the South functioned as a sanctuary, meaning, it was in some sense repressive, though obviously less so than a prison, the time in Paris and surroundings has been more and more intensity of indirect, palpable but not seizable, harrassment from mental health professionals. Or people pretending to be. I have not committed any second violent crime despite this, but I sometimes wish I had. The criminal party is they, and the harrassment makes me irritated and they can describe me as dangerous.

It's obviously a very different story with someone who had simply assaulted a perfectly innocent person, for instance to commit a robbery or a rape, who has been convicted of that. But I bet some people who are even convicted of certain violent crimes could be in a situation where they were in some sense defending their dignity against an unjust aggressor like psychiatry. The Swedish one being apparently prepared to compare someone denying a current explanation in sciences to someone committing radical scepticism over all sense experience and use the deviance from Swedish very prevalent scientism to crack down on someone as mentally ill. And obviously, there are very obnoxious people here and there who will try to crack down on someone simply for having his luggage somewhere in the street or a corner of a building or for needing a place to pee and maybe even shit when the closest toilets are closed. When it comes to missing children, in how many cases are they missing according to the other side of a custody battle? Maybe even involving CPS? At least hear the children out in what they say themselves./HGL

PS, to clarify. When I say different, I do not mean in relation to the right of asylum granted by a Church. I mean in relation to getting back one's honours as a respectable citizen./HGL

Sharing Christine Niles

Justice Is Coming | FORWARD BOLDLY
Christine Niles | 26.I.2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8_gZMuj6H0

I Think Some People May Think I'm a Scrupulous Person Trying to Keep Private Vows and Suffering From That

Most people who think that never knew me (that would include psychiatrists involved in some stay at such hospitals, I do not confide in such persons).

Some who may be manipulating lots of others may be people who knew me more than 20 years ago.

My writing is not a monastic duty, it is not a byproduct of a monastic duty of contemplation. It is not a pastoral duty of a missionary.

My writing is writing ... as in engaged writing of a writer. I'm a Geocentric whether I prayed 153 Hail Mary's on a full 15 mysteries Rosary or I hurried past even saying three Hail Marys before going to bed, and woke up with a curse on the persons who woke me up too early. I'm a Young Earth Creationist, both situations. I enjoy writing for my convictions, I hate being censored. And pretending "he's sharing too much of his contemplation" from an Orthodox who thinks erroneously I have monastic duties, and pretending "poor guy, he thinks he has to be a monk to please God, even if he doesn't like it" are both incorrect.

If in 1998 I had been allowed to leave for a monastery, I would probably have made adequation to the private vow (made in a dangerous situation) by doing a year's novitiate, and I would probably have left or been told to leave and obeyed. If I had at least not been transferred from prison to forensic psychiatry, I could have calmly dealt with the issue when going out. In psychiatry, I was forced to give SOME kind of account (remember, that's not the same as confiding) about my intentions, and that involved telling I considered it my duty to try out a monastery. I was told to write then and there, and got a refusal.

As far as I am concerned, that refusal settles it. I'm free to marry. I did not feel a need to delve on it when I was getting liberated. Some guy may have got the idea I need to be cured of a scrupulous haunting of a ghost of a vocation that simply doesn't exist. That would explain a lot, and those types banding together with Catholic clergy in some kind of condominate, that has destroyed my life since I got out, in 2000. To be clear, I was not judged as too mentally ill to live a normal life when I got out, just to be too disturbed to be safe in prison. Per se, there was no need to get me a follow up, on any sane way of seing it.

However, the guys who pretend I'm a scrupulous guy, just like the guys who think I'm some kind of monk who hasn't learned the worth of silence, both have been active in isolating me, and therefore both have stopped me from marrying.

They kind of destroyed my position in Sweden just after I came out of prison, for instance by legislating (in 2000) that a man judged for a violent or sexual crime cannot be hired as a teacher. Maybe some think this makes sense. Does it still make sense if the "violent crime" either was or was at least seen as self defense? I got out free from the first trial, for putative self defense. I got 3 years 6 months in the second trial, for grave mistreatment alternatively attempt of unpremeditated homicide (what it would have been if the policeman had not been trying to get me into a mental hospital), and when I got out, I was not told to go to a psychologist or take medication, I was simply under a supervision that was supposed to end in 2006.

Now, 2006 is 18 years ago.

Keeping me under supervision when I have done no more violent crime, even presumed such, makes no sense. But my act of self defense clearly does make sense, I was defending myself against people who are as eager to keep treating a presumed "not quite sane" guy as the Wiesenthal Center is to catch a Nazi criminal of the type which the Denazification processes in the American Zone considered Hauptschuldige, but one who got away and has them for judge or jury instead of Patton's judges.

For those who think I actually made some sexual crime, I was in two court trials for one act, done 5th February 1998, and that act was the act of self defense. Not against the policeman as an agent of justice, but against the policeman as "lending his hand" to the process of psychiatry. It's called "handräckning" in Swedish. I do believe in justice, I do believe criminals often are people who deserve to be punished, and I do also believe that punishment is limited by ill deserts. But I do not believe in psychiatry. Those people know no limits, because they imagine their own acts totally beneficient and the least reserve their victim, "beneficiary" has of being their beneficiary just proves he is ill and needs even more help. I am aware psychiatry was a harder place to be in before the 1970's. But I am also aware, outside the East Block, much fewer people went there.

By bad guesses, they can ruin lives.

So can people who somehow get the idea that if they back off from someone they think is mad, that's because of some corruption. Trump just made a speech about Muslim Terrorists. I'd like to use similar words about Muslims who think I'm mad, who think they would do me a favour by getting me to a country where I would be likelier to get into conflicts with people who would (just as the people of a certain school district in the country-side) be likely to resolve the conflicts with psychiatry, that is by pushing me back to a neverending story of lost freedoms and imposed "friendships" I don't see as such. People who try too hard to fix someone else are likely to ruin him. By the way, Muslims are not alone, and not all Muslims seem to do that. But those who are not Muslims, how do they get such a talent for putting people in a Dhimmi status?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
Sts. Rufus and Zosimus
18.XII.2024

Philippis, in Macedonia, natalis sanctorum Martyrum Rufi et Zosimi, qui ex illorum numero discipulorum fuerunt, per quos primitiva Ecclesia in Judaeis et Graecis fundata est; de quorum etiam felici agone scribit sanctus Polycarpus in epistola ad Philippenses.

PS, I wonder how many of my readers from India are comparing me to a certain K. C. Paul.

The 24th KIFF honoured him by making a movie on him, named Surjo Prithibir Chardike Ghore (Sun Goes Around The Earth) directed by Arijit Biswas. According to the news article of Ei Samay Sangbadpatra published of 11 November 2018, the film concentrates more on the strong belief of K.C. Paul and his character rather than his concept. Paul's name in the film is TC Paul. KC Paul has promised to hand leaflets to all his audience and lecture on his geocentric concept.

I'd be horrified for that kind of thing to happen. I'm trying to mediatise my concept, not my person. Like Robert Sungenis. I actually became a Geocentric a year before the latter. I'm not offering a kind of reality show or contest about character. I'm offering debate about the arguments./HGL

Excess Deaths (sharing) PLUS Another Story

EXCESS DEATHS: how much longer can this horror story be suppressed. Decent people need help
Katie Hopkins OFFICIAL | 3 Jan. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9SWQuJgIg

Katie Hopkins. ONS Manipulation of Excess Death Data. And retro-fitting it. Dead bodies disappear
Katie Hopkins OFFICIAL | 21 Febr. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TEHMpk8uV0

Katie Hopkins: Imagine a Compulsory Purchase Order on your home, in order to house ‘new arrivals’
Katie Hopkins OFFICIAL | 15 Febr. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4taLHtNzoc

I'm Usually No Fan of Robert Barron, But Here He Has a Point

Catholic Bishop Condemns DANGEROUS Anti-Christian MSNBC Claim
Zach Costello | 24 Febr. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCG3jryogbs

This is What Equity Means

Upon learning that the girl was hungry, the judge made a shocking ruling!
Incredible Stories | 28 April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0oS3ce6qoA

Is anyone surprised that Caprio is an Italian name, like the Italians being Catholics?

Here is his channel:

Caught In Providence
https://www.youtube.com/@CaughtInProvidence

I think one should send him some viewers as well./HGL

Aussi à propos de l'interview de Mme Sigaut

Je cite, Rivarol n°3591 :

M. S. : Ce sont les magistrats du Parlement de Paris qui ont créé l’Hôpital-général, sous l’impulsion de la Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, compagnie de dévots laïcs organisés en société secrète. Ils utilisaient l’argument du « Dieu caché » pour cacher leurs bonnes œuvres, la bonne blague. Si on se cache, c’est qu’on a quelque chose à cacher, point. Ces dévots laïcs sont ceux que Molière étrille fort bien dans Tartuffe : faites ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais. Leur obsession d’avancer masqués pour leurs bonnes œuvres n’a pas abusé Mazarin qui a prévenu le roi qu’ils devenaient un État dans l’État et les a fait dissoudre.

Je n’ai pas étudié les registres de l’Hôpital-général à leur époque, mais il est plus que vraisemblable que ce que j’ai découvert en 1750 avait déjà cours en 1660. Ce sont eux qui ont rédigé les statuts de l’institution, qui ne laisse aucune chance aux pauvres, et organise l’opacité la plus complète sur leur gestion. Un exemple ? Pour pouvoir écrire sur l’Hôpital-général, il fallait l’autorisation écrite d’au moins deux directeurs ! Vous imaginez ?

Je me souviens d'avoir vu dans un livre de la bibliothèque de Beauvais, que :

• à l'époque de St. Vincent de Paul, on considérait plus méritoire de donner argent directement aux pauvres que de faire pour ainsi dire de la "charité organisée" ...
• pour ce fait, il avait même considéré de refuser de devenir aumônier à l'Hôpital, on a dû l'obliger par son obéissance.

Dans le rapport Sauvé, il y avait sur les abus commis par des clercs, mais aussi sur ceux commis par des bénévoles. Si je me souviens bien, encore plus nombreux./HGL

Item B :

R. : Les gens ignoraient donc, jadis, que des malfaisants usaient ainsi des enfants ?

M. S. : Je suis tout à fait perplexe : je n’ai pas trouvé de signe d’une quelconque prise de conscience de ce crime alors que, quand j’ai commencé à tirer les fils, ce sont des centaines, des milliers de noms de gosses disparus qui ont noirci mes listes. Et personne n’a rien vu ? Jamais ? Depuis que des chercheurs se succèdent aux archives de l’AP-HP…

Il me semble qu'à l'époque la pédocriminalité n'était pas une catégorie pénale à part entière, l'abus d'un garçon de 6 était puni, comme l'abus d'un homme qui consentait à 26, comme "sodomie" ... dans les deux cas, la peine de mort était prévue./HGL

"Rev." Lauren Van Ham Made Some Bad Points

Hostile Architecture = Ticket to Hell · "Rev." Lauren Van Ham Made Some Bad Points

The link where I find this outside my inbox involves:

The Imperative of a Two-State Solution: A Path To Peace for Israel/ Palestine
Column by Rev. Dr. Jeffrey Frantz on 23 November 2023
https://progressingspirit.com/2023/11/23/the-imperative-of-a-two-state-solution-a-path-to-peace-for-israel-palestine/

For my own part, I definitely do not take issue with Palestinian rights, I am not sure that's the best solution, but neither is continued harrassment of Gazawis at checkpoints.

Q: By A Reader

How is Christianity being affected by the Fundamentalist attitude towards belief?

Answer

by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

Dear Reader, ... ~ Rev. Lauren Van Ham

[No objection to her courtesies]

Answer

by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

This question is timely and so relevant given the many headlines in our media that could suggest fundamentalist Christian perspectives to speak for all of Christianity. In general, fundamentalism offers one answer and a concrete way of thinking. In an uncertain world, having an answer to hold might offer reassurance, but it usually also means less tolerance toward complexity, diversity, or doubt.

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

The question is if she means speaking for "all of the ChristianS" or speaking for "all of the Christian RELIGION" — the media headlines she is thinking of obviously seem to be by journalists aware of the fact that Progressive Christianity is NOT Historic Christianity, meaning that on some level at least, at some degree of Approximation at least, contemporary Fundamentalist Christianity is.

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by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

Within a fundamentalist view of Christianity, a strong emphasis is placed on the cross — that because of Jesus’s death and resurrection, our missteps are forgiven. But what about all that Jesus did before he died? Jesus’s death hardly absolves us from ignoring his instructions to embrace everyone, especially the outcasts; to reject any marketplace that allows a few to get rich by enslaving others; and to be in relationship with all that lives, celebrating the divinity in all beings.

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by Hans Georg Lundahl

Given the preference for companies that do not donate to Planned Parenthood, I think Fundamentalists are pretty aware of that. Plus, the picture she is giving is more about Protestant than Catholic versions of Fundamentalism.

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by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

And then there is the Bible. In short, biblical education is important and best not left to the ones trying to win an election. Christian Nationalism, we know, uses sections of the Bible to speak for all of the Bible, as though there were “one” biblical worldview, which is completely untrue. Written over hundreds of years by many authors, each responding to social concerns and political power moves of that moment, the Bible is exclusive in one spot and inclusive in the next. It is not possible to believe everything in the Bible – but the parts we do believe say a lot about the kind of Christianity we practice.

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

It totally is possible to believe EVERYTHING in the Bible, provided one does not believe in the Bible ALONE.

God is one, does not contradict Himself, and each hagiographer was divinely prompted to speak and write what God wanted and in doing so divinely preserved from contradicting what God knows and wants us to know.

Answer

by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

When a fundamentalist interpretation promotes hate, causes and perpetuates harm, or allows a political system to rise in authoritarianism, we are living again in the Roman Empire (guess what?).

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

It seems Lauren Van Ham has at least anti-Rome biasses in common with Protestant Fundies.

Don't get me wrong. I believe the Empire of Rome was the fourth beast of Daniel, BUT specifically as a Senatorial Republic without any permanent Monarch (one monarch for six months in a crisis or two dyarchs in a normal years is a very downplayed monarchic function.)

When Nero started persecuting Christians, he did so in at least purported obedience to Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus. When Rome ended the 280 year long period of initial persecutions, it was an Emperor who did so, when the Edict of Milan was signed by Constantine.

Some Protestants seem to fear the reintroduction of an Austrian or Holy Roman Emperor would be reintroducing the Fourth Beast. I consider the Emperor was rather o κατεχων while the Mystery of Evil was at work in the Senate. I therefore consider the reintrouduction of the Fourth Beast in its damageable dimension was already the work of lots of Republican Revolutions.

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by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

Jesus calls us to dismantle such accumulations of power and to do so humanely, with creativity.

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

In fact, the Roman Empire was not all that power accumulated.

In the Holy Land, you could have a representative of Rome, along with a local leader. Some of what the texts say about the arrest and Crucifixion of Our Lord suggests that Rome was even outsourcing parts of the power to the Temple. Rome did not hold full sway over each locality in all respects, but rather for instance prevented wars between the Holy Land and Syria (as there had recently been between the Maccabees, not yet Roman protégés when this started, and the vassal of the Senate who is known as Antiochus IV Epiphanes).

Answer

by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

He used stories to teach and to liberate. His parables encourage self-reflection. His opposition toward those misusing power was incredibly effective!

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

No quarrel with that. Concentrating powers over many lands in one city and misusing power are very different things.

And he modeled ways, always, to make otherwise empty religious practices come alive with relevance and meaning because he prioritized relationship and creativity.

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

I don't know what you mean by "empty" practises. Some practises were on occasion emptied, by making the one offering a sacrifice impure (offering a corban to the temple while denying the luxury to a father or whoever the father was intending to give it to, offering sth on the altar while bearing a grudge to someone or knowing one had wronged someone), and He insisted on moral purity. Obedience to parents (in licit things which are within the parents' chosing, see St. Barbara whom we will celebrate in 10 days for an exception), peaceful relations to the neighbour.

Answer

by Rev. Lauren Van Ham

Centering liberation, justice, and radical love for all beings, the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-12) offer a glimpse at how Jesus walked in the world and give us operating instructions to which we can all aspire. Within the Beatitudes, we find a list of ways to live with ourselves and others that both beg introspection and call us toward meaningful, visible action. May this be the Christian community’s roadmap away from any inaccurate interpretations of Jesus’s embodied invitation for us all.

Comment

by Hans Georg Lundahl

Not just the Beatitudes, but also the Sheep and Goats.

However, neither of these passages includes anything disparaging to the Young Earth implication of another very practical passage (on marital indissolubility), Mark 10:6. Or to taking a cue from Jesus' action in chosing 72 and then 12 males as Apostles, and therefore not recognising Lauren Van Ham as clergy.

Nor do they preclude being moderately Roman (in the secular sense), with a preference of Emperors over Senate, and of Habsburgs over the Julian dynasty.

Here I end and wish my readers all the best, including not to be misled by Progressive Christian guilt by association tactics to promote misreading Genesis 1—11 or 1—50 as myth ... and therefore somehow not fact.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. John of the Cross
24.XI.2023

Sancti Joannis a Cruce Presbyteri, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris, sanctae Teresiae in Carmelitarum reformatione socii, cujus dies natalis decimo nono Kalendas Januarii recensetur.

What Do I Mean by Fascist?

New blog on the kid: Swedes are Not Likely to be Anti-Black Racists · What Do I Mean by Fascist? · Φιλολoγικά / Philologica: "Most Enlightenment Thinkers Were Christians"

If I call myself one, perhaps I don't agree with Umberto Eco's 14 points.

I think that a certain anti-Fascist on the right (more like an US Republican) made a valuable distinction.

• Italian Fascism, National Socialism, Social Democracy are all related.
• Italian Fascism is not more related to National Socialism and National Socialism not more related to Italian Fascism than each to Social Democracy.

So, what do all of these have in common? Following the first part of the distinction.

They have in common to reject both Capitalism of the extreme Manchester school, or even too uncomfortably close to it, and instead emphasise workers' rights, while at the same time also rejecting Communist expropriation and instead emphasising property rights. Or to put it shorter : all three try to conjugate respect for workers' rights with respect for property. Me four.*

So, where do they differentiate? Or where does Italian Fascism differentiate from the other two?

• Italian Fascism as well as National Socialism reject the feminist heritage of Social Democracy, like promoting free sex without consequences, first promoting contraceptives, then later on even abortion.**
• Italian Fascism as well as Social Democracy (at least previously) rejects mercy killing of the disabled.
• Italian Fascism up to 1934 as well as Social Democracy reject Racism, while Italian Fascism from 1938 on, as well as National Socialism embace Racism.

On the last one, I'm with the early Mussolini, not the late one.

That's also the case with Spanish and Austrian Fascism, as well as with Portuguese and at least some Brazilian versions***

To be fair to Umberto, he doesn't list Racism as a feature of Fascism. Parts of what he does list are to me unfortunate accidents in Il Duce's version, specifically Il Squadrismo .... I was fortunately not involved in a civil war, like Il Biennio Rosso, so, I can definitely live without features like

3) The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4) Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
...
9) Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10) Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”

But I definitely like points 1 and 2, though not the way he spells it out:

1) The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2) The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

Syncretistic and occult elements are within Christendom very much the opposite of traditionalism. The Nazi Gnosis was less important in Nazism than mostly dechristianised Protestantism.°

Rejecting the Enlightenment is very much not irrationalist, because the Enlightenment itself was less rational than the Catholic "Superstition" it rejected. And remains so to this day.

I totally agree with the Inklings on that point, however much they may have agreed with Eco in exaggerating how important Nazi Gnosis was for National Socialism.

As to n° 6 "appeal to social frustration" — what ideology isn't doing so the last few centuries since the Enlightenment?/HGL

* Pun on "me too" sounding like "me two" ...
** My grandparents who were Social Democrats were so early enough to be it well before the abortion part, and to actually be disgusted by the change.
*** O Integralismo may have been regretted by Dom Helder Cámara as a "sin of youth" ... I'm not so sure. Except, of course, I'm not a fan of Gustavo Barroso's antisemitism, especially if he went further than Drumont.
° Statistics for the Waffen-SS corroborate what I said, on a video seen last month or two months, I got a break-down : c. 25 % each of Catholic and Gottesgläubig (that Nazi Gnosis was officially called so), c. 50 % of Evangelische, which unlike US Evangelicals in the German context doesn't mean very fervently Christian Protestants, but more like very moderately Christian and fervently progressive Protestants.

Right to Happiness

C.S. Lewis - We Have No Right to Happiness
C. S. Lewis essays, 28 Oct. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVaY96xC-w

Meilleurs voeux à Guillaume de Thieulloy et à l'abbé Pagès !

Voici le mail reçu:

Chers amis, Je quitte le tribunal et je vous annonce très rapidement une bonne nouvelle : nous venons d’obtenir une petite victoire. Pas une victoire décisive mais une première étape. Contre l’avis du procureur, le tribunal nous a accordé la possibilité de préparer notre défense plus longuement (de façon assez inhabituelle… et assez inique, l’audience avait été fixée très rapidement après l’instruction nous obligeant à une préparation expresse). Je vous en dirai plus aussi vite que possible. En attendant, une autre bonne nouvelle : j’ai appris cet après-midi, pendant l’audience, que nos amis du monde entier prolongeaient leur offre de doublement de tous nos dons (et de doublement des dons mensuels pendant une année complète) jusqu’à minuit. N’hésitez pas à en profiter dans les prochaines heures ! Fidèlement Guillaume de Thieulloy

Resistance and Obedience

traditional mass dot org : Did Bellarmine Condemn Sedevacantism?
Rev. Anthony Cekada
http://www.traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=25

Summa Theologiae II-II : Question 104. Obedience
Article 5. Whether subjects are bound to obey their superiors in all things?
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3104.htm#article5