BOOK: Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History by Angus McLaren, Harvard University Press

"sexual revolution... blurred the long-rigid lines of respectability, leading to a rapid decline of blackmail fears." http://t.co/e0b62trzHD

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"As the importance of sexual respectability was inflated, so too was the spectacle of its loss."—Harvard University http://t.co/PsjgK6Lu03

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UNIFICATIONISM a critique & counterproposal

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
—John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Table of Contents

Disclaimer — I defend the Unification Church's right to exist as a member of our free, open, democratic, pluralistic and tolerant society. more >>

Critique — This is a critique of taking religious literalism and fundamentalism too far, and the misuse of religion for political purposes. more >>

Counterproposal — A religion does not need to be interpreted literally in order to be valuable and taken seriously. more >>

"What, then, is fascism?" (FYI) — "You carry in your blood the holy inheritance of your fathers and forefathers...You carry in it the secret of creation itself. Your blood is holy, for in it God's will lives." -- Faith and Action - 1938 - The German Propaganda Archive. more >>

 "The Third World War" — "It is folly; instead of transforming themselves into angels, they transform themselves into beasts; instead of elevating, they lay themselves lower." — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, on The French Wars of Religion more >>

The Separation of Church and State — "...church and state are to be separated." — The Constitution of the Republic of Korea more >>

Nihilism and the Death of God, Professor Ken Gemes, Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London

CLIP: Nihilism and the Death of God, Professor Ken Gemes, Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London https://t.co/t6AtORxbpO

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BOOK: Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil by Paul W. Kahn, Princeton University Press

Out of Eden "... the opposite of evil is not good, but love: while evil would master death, love would transcend it." http://t.co/Oex2U0QMnK

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BOOK: Onslaught against Innocence: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist by Andre LaCocque

BOOK: Onslaught against Innocence: Cain, Abel, and the Yahwist by Andre LaCocque http://t.co/l7hzfF0DkW

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BOOK: Understanding Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna

BOOK: Understanding Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna "... a challenge to the intellect may reinforce faith and purify it." http://t.co/mBzTloK8CC

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"... when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide..."

“Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.” 

― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings - Unabridged

BOOK: Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres "... All war is fratricide..." http://t.co/RE4EA2XLwP via @amazon

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"... the notion of a national community based on 'blood and soil'..."—Encyclopædia Britannica

"After the 'Dreyfus affair,' which polarized French opinion of the right and left, Maurras became an ardent monarchist. In June 1899 he was one of the founders of L'Action française, a review devoted to integral nationalism, which emphasized the supremacy of the state and the national interests of France; promoted the notion of a national community based on 'blood and soil'; and opposed the French Revolutionary ideals of liberté, égalité, and fraternité ('liberty,' 'equality,' and 'fraternity')..."

—Charles Maurras. 2015. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 02 August, 2015, from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Maurras

BOOK: Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan, Yale

BOOK: Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur by Ben Kiernan, Yale http://t.co/3B8GsryPd3

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