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Brett Fawcett

@papistwitness

Teacher/writer/quasi-theologian. All my best tweet ideas occur to me when I’m far from technology.

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Do Alberta sovereigntists have any kind of a draft constitution? Would there be a constitutionally locked in bill of rights or would the Alberta Bill of Rights (subject to change by legislature) suffice? Crucially; What would happen to s. 17 of the Alberta Act?

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This is because everyone recognizes that there are (basically) right and wrong answers in math and science, but not in the humanities. There ARE right and wrong interpretations of art and history but you needed deep culture to arrive at them (not so-called “media literacy”).

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Too many on the Canadian right are enamoured with the worst bits of America. This said, the Canadian left imports the worst pathologies of progressive America and thinks they are being patriotic by doing so. Truly a case of the pot and the kettle.

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G. K. Chesterton on George MacDonald: Just as Luther and Calvin were morning stars of the Reformation, MacDonald will come to be known as a morning star of the Reunion. "The originality of George MacDonald has also a historical significance […] He evolved out of his own

G. K. Chesterton on George MacDonald: Just as Luther and Calvin were morning stars of the Reformation, MacDonald will come to be known as a morning star of the Reunion.

"The originality of George MacDonald has also a historical significance […] He evolved out of his own
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Collingwood turned Ruskin’s focus on ruins into an archaeological philosophy of history: we only have access to the past via remains, but the present consists only of remains. ‘Excavating’ reveals the past as different, but also how this difference is mutatedly alive today.

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'What you have by heart, the bastards cannot touch, they cannot take it from you ... What you don't know by heart, you really haven't loved deeply enough.' George Steiner on the importance of learning by heart. I've seen this countless times, and it never ceases to move me.

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Interestingly, RG Collingwood thought that fascism-Nazism was overwhelmingly about the sustaining of capitalism, the rich and the primacy of private property with indifference to either democracy or social equality. He regarded its nationalism has only a diversionary tactic.

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Whether Shrek unjustly broke up a valid sacramental marriage between Fiona and Lord Farquaad? Objection 1: It would seem that Shrek did unjustly break up a valid Catholic marriage. For the Our Lord says, “What God has joined together, let no man separate” (Matt. 19:6). But Fiona

Whether Shrek unjustly broke up a valid sacramental marriage between Fiona and Lord Farquaad?

Objection 1: It would seem that Shrek did unjustly break up a valid Catholic marriage. For the Our Lord says, “What God has joined together, let no man separate” (Matt. 19:6). But Fiona
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Abram’s ancestor, Arpachshad, was likely commanded by God to leave Ararat and travel to Ur of Chaldea, which is why his son Shalach’s name means “sent” and his grandson Heber’s name means “pass over” (unlike the Babylonians who clustered to build a tower). Peter Leithart

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Secularism is actually a religious group with several ‘denominations’ - including liberal humanism, communism etc - that have rites, iconography, sacred buildings, seasons, and days, saints, & symbols. It is anthropologically impossible to be nonreligious.

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“Literature is a human apocalypse, man’s revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.” —Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

“Literature is a human apocalypse, man’s revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.”

—Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
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“Stomp clamp” Mumford and Sons-y folk music was generally pretty good and the hipsters had a cool and socially perceptive aesthetic.

“Stomp clamp” Mumford and Sons-y folk music was generally pretty good and the hipsters had a cool and socially perceptive aesthetic.