THE RADICALISED RABBI is a blog on Judaism and its very useful ideas and the blogger a Secular Koranist and a revolutionary. You don't have to be Jewish to find Jewish ideas very useful in tidying up your thinking and turbo-charging your powers of reasoning to the extent that you can even predict most events and disasters. The West is heading for disaster with its insane policy of Transnational Progressivism, turning our global village into Sodom and Gomorrah attracting the same punishment.
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Discussing the TLC, Christian identity, civil disagreement and history with Luke Thompson
Difference in a live stream and a recorded conversation
2:00 YouTuber or political activist?
Social club, debating society or political party?
4:00 Group therapy
5:00 TLC
National and political
6:00 Religion and culture
7:00 How often do we think of the meaning of life?
9:00 Our place in the pecking order
10:00 Information
11:00 Christianity is merely a cultural affiliation.
12:00 Who has the right to identify as Christian?
13:00 Infant baptism
Anabaptists
14:00 Mikveh
John the Baptist
15:00 TLC markers
17:00 Is America a Christian Nation?
18:00 Joining a gang
19:00 Venn diagram of overlapping circles
21:00 Being a good listener
22:00 Complaining about the government is a universal practice.
23:00 How do we know that we believe what we claim to believe?
24:00 David Dark, philosopher and theologian
25:00 Bearing witness
26:00 Comparative religion
The definition of true knowledge
27:00 Participation
28:00 Propositional, procedural, perspectival and participatory
29:00 Common areas of agreement
31:00 First principles
33:00 Atheists see the utility of religion.
Teleology
34:00 Religion is mind and behavioural control.
Secular political ideologies are also belief systems with values and therefore religions.
36:00 Are Luke and I friends?
37:00 TLC
Proper knowledge
38:00 Collective and individual punishment pertains to the moral, imperial and religious.
46:00 The Abrahamic religions are imperial religions.
47:00 Constantine the Great hoped Christianity would stabilise his empire.
50:00 Council of Nicaea
The First Seven Ecumenical Councils
51:00 Lady Deacons
52:00 Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism
53:00
AI Overview
Cataphatic (positive) theology defines God by what He is (e.g., God is love), using images and concepts to describe the Divine. Apophatic (negative) theology argues God is beyond human comprehension, defining Him by what He is not (e.g., God is not finite), aiming to experience the transcendent. Both are complementary approaches to understanding the Divine.
54:00 The Third Principles of Judaism
56:00 The theological arms race between Jews and Muslims
1:00:00 Jews and Christians had terrible kings. The last 250 years of Western history has been a succession of republican revolutions that ended Christendom in 1918.
Christianity was the religion that defended the divine right of kings.
AI Overview
Christianity was fundamentally used to defend the divine right of kings, a doctrine asserting monarchs derived their absolute authority directly from God, not from their subjects or the Church. Rooted in biblical narratives of kings anointed by prophets (e.g., Samuel, David), it required total obedience, viewing rebellion as a sin against God.
Key Aspects of the Christian Defense of Divine Right:
Biblical Justification: Rulers often cited Romans 13, which calls for obedience to governing authorities as they are instituted by God.
Theological Support: The concept was used by monarchs in early modern Europe (16th-17th centuries), such as James I of England and Louis XIV, to consolidate power, arguing they were only answerable to God.
"God's Mandate": The theory posits that the king is God's anointed representative on Earth, essentially placing him above all earthly institutions.
Evolution of the Doctrine: While it supported the monarchy, it originally allowed the Church to sanction or excommunicate kings who failed to protect religious interests, though it later shifted to justify pure absolutism.
While strongly rooted in Christian tradition, the doctrine was contested, with some theologians arguing for limited, rather than absolute, authority.
1:01:00 The Roman Conquest of Britain
1:02:00 Celtic Christianity
AI Overview
A distinct form of Celtic Christianity existed in Britain, particularly flourishing from the 5th to the 7th centuries in Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, and Ireland. It developed as an early form of Christianity with unique traditions, such as a monastic focus, different tonsures, and a divergent calculation for Easter, often operating independently of Rome.
Key Aspects of Celtic Christianity in Britain:
Origins: Rooted in early Roman Britain, it persisted in the west and north after Anglo-Saxon pagan invasions suppressed Christianity in many parts of England.
Monasticism: The church was organized around monasteries rather than strict Roman diocesan structures, with abbots often holding more authority than bishops.
Distinct Features: Key figures like St. Columba (Iona) helped spread this tradition. It was characterized by a deep love for nature, strict asceticism, a focus on personal "soul friends" (anamchara), and unique art styles.
Cultural Blend: It was a unique mix of indigenous Celtic customs and Christian faith.
Synod of Whitby (664 AD): The distinct traditions, particularly the date of Easter, led to conflicts with the Roman Church, resulting in the Synod of Whitby where most of Britain moved towards Roman, rather than Celtic, practices.
Though never a completely uniform church, it was a distinct, culturally integrated form of Christianity that played a major role in the evangelization of the British Isles.
1:04:00 Liberalism was a reaction against absolute monarchy.
1:05:00 MATT C joins to remind me of a conversation I had with him on PVK's channel two years ago on Secular Koranism.
1:06:00 Liberalism is now global and imperial.
1:08:00 American imperialism
1:09:00 Knowledge of geopolitics
Truth is the opinion of the powerful.
1:10:00 The next generation is equipped with an array of weapon words supplied by educational institutions to shut up the previous generation when they express dissenting views.
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