Sometimes I wonder if Orthodoxy in America is just going to replay how many other Christian conversations I've heard, but to them it's new. https://t.co/iSk43FWVVj
— Paul Vander Klay (@PaulVanderKlay) August 16, 2025
As the Age of the Individual, which started with the Protestant Reformation and ended with wokism, reaches its conclusion, more and more people will continue entering Apostolic Churches. In the end, I suspect we’ll be left with one enormous American Catholic Church, in union with…
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
Sharia would be better than this blended mess no one believes in.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
I don’t agree with the content of the message…Sharia can be pretty brutal…but I agree with the sentiment. The individualist Protestant/Liberal tradition has run its course. It was a necessary stepping stone.
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
Sharia doesn’t have to be brutal if interpreted humanely. It’s either that or continue to trust Congress to make up the rules as it goes along.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
I said “can be.” The US Constitution is designed to be extremely flexible. The “making it up as they go along” bit is a feature, not a bug. The lessons of the 20th century couldn’t be learned without the judicial and bureaucratic tyranny we’re emerging from. It’s important to…
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
"the Constitution has the benefit of being compatible with American civilization."
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
Wouldn't scripture actually supporting the First Amendment with https://t.co/utzbCpdmZl be more compatible with American civilisation than the Torah with its 36 capital offences including idolatry…
No. I don’t think either book is a political framework. They’re religious frameworks. Neither is compatible with American civilization. We keep the civic realm and the religious realm separate here.
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
The difference between religion and politics is a distinction without a difference.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
I doubt anyone in the Vatican can tell me which parts of the Lateran Treaty were religious and which political. https://t.co/U9LV9jdBrQ
'Trusting in “humane interpretation” of Sharia is no more rational than trusting in Congress'
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
You don't think that the directly revealed Word of God that has kept Muslims in existence for 1400 years could possibly be more reliable than Congress making up the rules as it goes…
I don’t think individuals interpreting any holy text is the revealed word of God. Only the holy text itself is. As you said, Sharia can be interpreted humanely. Implied in that is the obvious fact that it can be interpreted inhumanely. Interpretation isn’t divinely-inspired.…
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
"A written Constitution (in law) and a reliable interpreter like the Church guided by Sacred Tradition (in faith) provide guardrails that individualist readings can’t."
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
I was not aware that the US Supreme Court was taking advice in its legal decisions from the Church guided by…
So you, an American and a man of God, do not trust the US Supreme Court to ever interpret the law humanely or justly under any administration?
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
'The “making it up as they go along” bit is a feature, not a bug.'
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
Are you sure?
Do Americans really want the "unwritten constitution" the British are supposed to have that means that they do not have a constitution at all?
Under the Doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy, any…
Britain has a weak executive. We have a strong executive. The president is only bound by impeachment, which takes a supermajority of Congress. If the president tells a court “No” and Congress says “Fine” then guess who wins?
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
So, no. I don’t want an unwritten British…
"The Supreme Court is undoing its predecessors’ damage case by case, just like some future court will undo this iteration’s damage."
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
What are the cases you are referring to?
They laid the foundation during the Biden admin by recognizing executive immunity, overturning chevron deference, and re-empowering the executive branch to carry out the political will of the people (i.e. Elections have consequences, and unelected judges don’t really have a say…
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
"The lessons of the 20th century couldn’t be learned without the judicial and bureaucratic tyranny we’re emerging from."
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
What would you say are the lessons of the 20th century?
The biggest lesson learned is that systematic ideology—all if it, from Progressivism to Communism to Nazism to Fascism to Wokism to “Classical Liberalism” in all its disparate and incompatible forms—is foolish. Aristotle was right. There are exactly three forms of government, and…
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
You talk about the lessons of the 20th century caused by the failure of Christianity.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
According to @AGDugin's Fourth Political Theory, the first, second and third political theories were liberalism, nationalism and socialism - and all three were attempts to replace…
They were caused by the failures of Protestantism, and they strengthened Apostolic Christianity. As Protestant communities shed members, the Catholic and Orthodox Churches are growing in members and clergy.
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
On the other hand, Catholics could never have settled America. Only rugged individualists with puritanical work ethic could do that.
— James Jenneman (@jameslj) August 16, 2025
I am aghast that there are so many Americans who think that going to a different church on Sunday could in any way affect the politics of their country bearing in mind that the Founding Fathers had long ago separated the church from their state.
— Cyborg of Secular Koranism (@Book_of_Rules) August 16, 2025
Astonishingly, there are Britons…
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