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Monday, June 29, 2009

Go on then: is religion the opium of the people?

June 29, 2009

For reasons best known to itself, the Guardian decided its Comment is Free Question this week should be “Is religion the opium of the people?” and started things off with a lengthy quote from Marx’s introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. This is somewhat akin to walking into an [...]

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An odd musing on Paul, the kingdom and the political church

June 29, 2009

I got stuck this morning on the opening of 1 Thessalonians, and particularly the apparently locative ἐν of “in God the Father” which is how most translations and commentators take it.
Here’s the text:
Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς καὶ Τιμόθεος τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ Θεσσαλονικέων ἐν θεῷ πατρὶ καὶ κυρίῳ Ἰησοῦ Χριστῷ, χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη
From Paul and Silvanus and [...]

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St Paul’s bones and skeletal journalism

June 29, 2009

A happy feast of St Peter and St Paul to you. Apparently St Paul has now caught up with St Peter in having the Vatican state that they’ve found his bones. As far as the more cynical go, they’ve confirmed that some old bones in an old tomb are, well, old. But at least they’re [...]

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