Month: January 2010
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…And Martin Rowson’s in The Guardian
Says it all. The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off like that by a fraction of the banking bonuses paid out on top of enormous salaries. Sickening.
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Haiti, Before and After | Peter Brookes
Peter Brooke’s cartoon in The Times today: I’d amend one thing, to be honest. The child in the blue shorts is most likely dead.
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Haiti | To Hell With Altruistic Capitalism
A few weeks ago I was asked to guest post something on the site for the forthcoming ‘Evolving Church’ conference in Toronto in April this year. The theme of the conference is ‘the Kingdom Economy’ and it is this that I explore a bit in the post, which you can find here. It connects to…
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Hitler Youth | Rebuilding the Structure | The Problem of the Next Generation
In the previous post I tried to explore how Christian community could move away from the sociopathic tendencies it naturally develops in worship of an omnipotent God by a passive congregation directed through a ‘hero’ priest. In doing so I proposed that what we find in the radical Marxist view of Christianity is a community…
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Non-Abusive Community | The Scaffold and the Structure | Zizek’s ‘Marxianity’
How do we overcome the problem of corp-orations and organ-izations becoming sociopathic and abusive? This seems to be at the heart of the matter whether we are discussing the financial crisis (as Zizek does in First As Tragedy Then As Farce – the springboard for these posts) or the structure of our faith in a…
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Befriending Hitler… Befriending Sociopathic Institutions (Like the Church)
In the previous two posts { [ 1 ] [ 2 ] } I’ve been wondering whether a certain symmetry of relationship is needed if empathy is going to flow between two people. The springboard for this was Zizek critiquing the adage ‘an enemy is a friend whose story I have not yet heard’ by…