(původně komentář k článku P. Halíka k americkým prezidentským volbám)
Pane profesore, jakkoli si Vás velice vážím a jakkoli jsem naprosto znechucen vítězstvím pana Trumpa v amerických prezidentských volbách, a jakkoli zbytek příspěvku je naprosto přesný, přesto Vás musím opravit v jednom bodě. Pan Trump sice doslova řekl, že miluje …
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Read MoreI am just reading an interesting blog post by my Melinda Selmys reflecting on her reaction to the Mr. Trump’s victory in the US elections.
I am Czech, so I have a little experience with the similar situation, which I would like to share. Since 2013, Mr. Miloš Zeman …
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Read More(originally started as a comment on the article on First Things).
Yours country used to be found on principles “to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men”, and now the biggest concern of everybody is which of the nine unelected guys (or gals) will …
Category: faith Tagged: blogComment FirstThings politics UnitedStates
Read MoreV tomto okamžiku to vypadá, že absolutně všichni obyvatelé planety Země, zejména pokud žijí někde v blízkosti Evropy, cítí potřebu se vyslovit k příčinám, následkům a všemu možnému ohledně vystoupení Spojeného (zatím :)) Království z Evropské unie. Vzhledem k tomu, že jsem sám spíše zmaten nežli co jiného z celé situace …
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Read More(written as a comment on the blogpost by Melinda Selmys, “10 Reasons Why Homosexuality is Not a Natural Law Issue”)
First of all, yes, the title of the blogpost is wrong. However, who of you (especially a parent of couple of months old baby) never wrote a title, and then …
Category: faith Tagged: catholic philosophy homosexuality law blogComment
Read More(originally posted as a comment on the blogpost “Few quick thoughts on Brexit” by Chris Arnade)
I am still confused by the book “Status Anxiety” by Alain de Botton. Either it is just a stupid banality stating the obvious, or Douglas Adams is right and “It is a rare mind …
Category: faith Tagged: euro EU politics blogComment status anxiety
Read MoreOK, so I was wrong. I wonder what happens next.
Category: faith Tagged: euro EU politics blogComment
Read MoreComment I posted on the First Things blog.
I have just returned from the open air concert of the Czech Philharmonic in the Prague Castle, which finished with the last movement of the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I would really love this to be played in some great park in …
Category: faith Tagged: euro EU politics FirstThings blogComment
Read MoreFinally, this issue ticket gave me the opportunity to write what I think about OStatus. So, I did.
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Read More(originally started as a comment on the article on First Things).
A thought: isn’t the one of the root of whole problem, that Catholics see the problem in “the second marriage”?
I am not sure who started ignoring what seems to me like more obvious problem, which is the …
Category: faith Tagged: blogComment FirstThings ecumenism catholic marriage sin sacrament
Read More(originally started as a comment on the article on First Things).
I completely agree with all this article says about the God's mercy. Unfortunately, it seems to me that you mostly ignored the path through the natural law, God’s teaching get to people. As I see it (and yes …
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Read More(comment on the podcast episode 250)
When listening to the Q & A episode #250, I was very excited by the last question on the relationship between our understanding of Platonism, or what actually Platonism because during the ages, and the actual thinking of Plato.
I like what I understand be …
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Read More(linked on A History of Christian Theology Facebook page)
I have just finished backlistening to whole podcast A History of Christian Theology and I really liked it. However, the last episode on the Saint Cyprian hit couple of pet peeves of mine, so I feel I really need to respond …
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Read More(Originally published as a comment on pump.io)
The problem is when we want to be like them. "Give me the free-as-beer Windows" attitude towards Linux (intentionally not using GNU/Linux, but that's another discussion) is repeated here with "Give me the Facebook/Twitter which doesn't bother me with spam …
Category: computer Tagged: linux ourcloud firefoxOS FLOSS blogComment
Read MoreAnd after the yesterday’s comment yet another opportunity to say what I for long wanted to have here recorded. This one touches on another article on First Things:
“In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them …
Category: faith Tagged: blogComment FirstThings UnitedStates constitution
Read MoreI had wished for long to say somewhere publicly the following, and finally yesterday I had an opportunity which forced me to say it on the comment on the First Things analysis of the Havana Declaration of pope Francis I. and the Moscow patriarch Kirill:
You must be new here …
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Read More(originally comment on blogpost by Dave Winner)
I was thinking about this a lot especially from the point of view of owning my own data. The first version of how to do it was “the canonical version is on my harddrive in some reasonable format, WordPress is just for presentation …
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Read More(I wanted to comment on “The History of Philosophy: without any gaps” podcast about Saint Augustine, but somehow their comment system is broken)
Sister, when you love your man, be careful how you tell him thatHe will put you back in a corner and use you like a Sunday …
Category: literature Tagged: Augustine philosophy podcast blogComment
Read More(originally started as a comment on the article on First Things, but seriously extended).
If the point of this article is that the Protestant evangelicals and Catholics should put down their war axes and unite against the common enemy, that is consumerism, atheism and the culture of death, I like …
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Read MoreOn September 15, 2015 we are remembering the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain Day . George Weigel wrote for The First Things a lovely remberance article about it, and I have added this comment:
First, as a Czech, let me thank you for mentioning the Czechoslovak airmen (not sure …
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Read More(comment on the blogpost on The First Things)
I think problem of yours (and the author of the article, how much I look up to him otherwise) is that you don't distinguish between the role of the state and morality. I don’t believe, that purpose of the state and …
Category: faith Tagged: politics FirstThings blogComment
Read More(reply to a nice article about ecumenism on The First Things)
Good article! Thank you. It is really good to think not only about general platitudes and ecumenical Kumbaya but about the real life impact of our hope for unity.
I think what’s crucial is to disentangle couple of …
Category: faith Tagged: ecumenism FirstThings blogComment
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