Category: religion
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Social Constructs, Relativism and Marxism, part 2
What is a social construct? It does not mean it is something “which not is”. A chair will still retain the function of an elevated horizontal surface balanced on distributed pressure points we rest ourselves on if it is called a “rose”. But I can still access its reality of being so and still call…
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Victory Against…
Two days ago we celebrated the day when the Maltese islands had survived a siege that derailed the Ottoman Empire’s designs on the Mediterranean. Designs that were not fuelled by xenophobic sentiment or religious antagonism, but economic panic since the European Empires had sought alternative access to the Silk Road than what the Empire had their…
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A washing away of what?
How can we sit on the ritualistic and ignore the human richness that religion has to offer?
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“Unchanging”?
It may be very hard to engage with the Bible as an atheist; whether you have dropped faith entirely experientially or because you were born in an atheistic background, your reasons may vary. And I hold no qualms against either; I find that faith is a private journey that I see no reason to condemn…
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Con Templation
The word “temple” comes from the Greek “templum/temenos” – “to cut away with a scythe”; reminiscent of Chronos, the Titan God of Time brandishing his scythe, later morphed into the incarnation of death. The temple is literally the place to put time apart from reflection away from it all. Glorification of the human condition reflects…
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Plausible Deniability…?
I have…questions. In the article posted by the Times of Malta, Fr. Aaron Zahra, the Rector and St. Albert the Great, sticks to his guns and states that Mr. Mario Mallia, who is at the forefront of a lengthy saga, has allegedly refused to seek audience with the board of directors to discuss his ideas…
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The Picture that Launched a Thousand Pitchforks
While the whole Mario Mallia thing is happening, across the ocean we have had a Pope with ailing health who traveled to the ends of the Earth to reach out to the indigenous peoples of Canada to apologize for years of colonial interference, genocide, and cultural suppression. Meantime, back home, the chaplain of the town…
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The left hand know not what the right one doeth…
It is truly ironic when a statement against inclusivity comes from an entity that is pushing for its own dissenting voice to be included within the walls of parliament. Such is the lack of self-awareness exhibited by the so-called local rightist movement “Partit Popolari” following Mr. Mario Mallia’s dismissal allegedly over his perspective on inclusivity.…
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Pro-Conscience
The more I learn about these things the more I realize what’s “left” and what’s “right” is steadily more subjective according to the realities of what the parties representing want rather than representing a specific belief. I define myself as a leftist, but as stated elsewhere, not a leftist according to the American sensibilities. It…
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Inclusion Is…
Inclusion is not a trophy for participating. Inclusion is not just representation. Inclusion is not hand-waving your presence that you are there. Inclusion is not having pity Inclusion is not putting other identities down in order to promote yours. Inclusion is not an unfair advantage over the others. Inclusion is not dumbing down everything so…
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