Companion blog for the essay: "UNIFICATIONISM a critique & counterproposal"


"A religion does not need to be interpreted literally
in order to be valuable and taken seriously."
—Anonymous

Monday, August 17, 2015

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

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

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

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Friday, August 7, 2015

BOOK: Understanding Genesis by Nahum M. Sarna

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Monday, August 3, 2015

"... 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
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Sunday, August 2, 2015

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

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