Tag: bernard grech
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A View of History Tinted in Black
People trying to justify their racism by misquoting Mintoff CLEARLY fail to understand a single word the man ever said AND THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM, ESPECIALLY HIS FAMILY. The obvious: 1. His BROTHER Dionysius administers the Peace Lab which is itself a SHELTER FOR REFUGESS AND MIGRANTS along with the NGO AWAS which first began…
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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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If it walks like a duck…
I wonder why do people keep believing the lie that Joseph Muscat, the ex-Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader was ever the socialist he made himself appear to be. Because he started some social programs that weren’t there before? Sure, well done. But were they made in a way that were not self-serving? His battle…
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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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