On interpretation:
If anything, we today, on the average, are far more ignorant than our ancestors where the Bible and the faith are concerned. If anybody is wrongly handling the word of God, it is likely to be us, not our forefathers. Their brains were at least not addled by nonsense and Political Correctness, and I trust the consensus of our forefathers through the centuries rather than the consensus among today’s compromised generation (p. 670).
And an attack on the Bible and Critical Theory journal:
Our illiterate, lazy culture has spilled over to many professing Christians who have embraced the ways of the pacifist egalitarian. They are willing to read a modified, pacifist, gender neutral Bible, missing what God says so that they can continue to ignore their duties in regards to the ongoing Crusade (self defence). Our modern Bible perversion was written by men using dynamic equivalence. In other words, they are telling you their interpretation and their doctrine, NOT what the manuscripts really say. This can be confirmed by reviewing how the modern Church is using pacifist, fanatically egalitarian and gender inclusive language. Fanatical egalitarianism, gender inclusivity and pacifism wasn’t in the original texts, in the original Bible. it is a modern, feminist and cultural relativist concept born from the Marxist revolution (p. 1119).
26 July, 2011 at 10:29 am
and on Christianity:
“If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us Christian”
26 July, 2011 at 10:35 am
A fairly standard European identitarian position on the far and not so far right
26 July, 2011 at 10:38 am
And from page 1114:
Scriptures lack of relation to Church:
Christ left a church, not a book, and that the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura (by scripture alone) is illogical because the formation of the canon (i.e. what we recognise as Scripture) was itself a monumental act of the church. Thus, the Bible requires an infallible church.
Lack of guide to scripture:
The church is a necessary guide to the meaning of Scripture. If the Constitution, as a relatively simple human text, needs the Supreme Court as its interpretive guide, then all the more does Scripture need the Catholic Church as its interpretive guide.
Lack of interpretational authority:
The Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura leads to an “incipient subjectivism” since without Tradition, each man becomes his own authority and interpreter of Scripture. This has resulted in competing interpretations in the Protestant marketplace resulting in various directions of Protestantism.
Authority and Authoritativeness:
Authority, in all of our daily experiences, means a person or institution empowered to enforce a rule. Sola scriptura is in a sense a philosophical sleight of hand. A book by its nature can only be authoritative, not an authority. Ironically, it was the first pope, the apostle Peter, who pointed out the rather obvious fact that Scripture is not necessarily self-explanatory; it can be twisted by the unscrupulous to support any theological position (2 Peter 3:16).
26 July, 2011 at 10:40 am
I’m glad you’re not quoting the bomb recipes and advice on how to pull ricin out of mungbeans he includes in that thing… but please don’t make him the new Lenin in your scholarly life.
26 July, 2011 at 10:48 am
The Right is consistent in its madness.
26 July, 2011 at 11:29 am
amen to that, EBY!
26 July, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Breivik draws inspiration from John Howard, George Cardinal Pell, and Australia in general. See the paragraph which is halfway down p. 680, beginning “Luckily…”.
26 July, 2011 at 7:32 pm
But also Korean currency manipulation, World of Warcraft, and Gattica. I wouldn’t get carried away. Besides: “End note: Multicultural zones with extended use of “guest workers” can also be considered in protectorate states outside Europe such as liberated Christian Anatolia and liberated Christian Albania.” (1178).
26 July, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Ah, but that’s a kiwi speaking there … although I wish the (mild) left would point out the connections. Where the fuck are the labour people over here pinning Howard and Pell and Abbott to Breivik?
26 July, 2011 at 9:33 pm
BY, the encyclopaedic right. But don’t let bourgie cynicism get the better of you. My friends in Norway point out that he was delayed getting to the island, since he was targetting the former PM, the first women to be PM, and he has posted regularly on document.no, criticising state feminism, intellectuals, multiculturalism, Marxism etc. As far as they are concerned, it was a carefully planned right-wing attack, with all the cookiness thrown in.
26 July, 2011 at 10:49 pm
If I had a dollar (or better, Swiss franc) for every time you accused me of bourgeois cynicism I could finally get that Asian double-eyelid surgery I’ve always dreamed of.
I guess the problem I can see is that ppl on the left are starting to do exactly what ppl on the right did after 9/11, assigning guilt by association to anyone and anything mentioned by OBL or associates.
There’s some unpleasant people cited in the manifesto, and its making some unpleasant people quite uncomfortable, but its a flawed methodology.
27 July, 2011 at 9:04 am
‘In his manifesto, which is written in such good English that one wonders whether he had the assistance of a native speaker …’ (in that Bawer piece). Gotta love that paternalistic crap. Actually, I’ve had reviewers twice say that I must not be a native speaker. Seems to be the new code for ‘wog’.
27 July, 2011 at 10:11 am
Clog wog, nigga.
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