Articles in English
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1. The cheapest ideal is also the most oppressive tyranny Language can be a great force of socialization, can form and express individuality, can help to develop personal thinking but also can be a coercive and terrible tool for indoctrination, brainwashing and manipulation. In our days, considering the impressive power of mass-media, whoever controls vocabulary controls the world. Whoever
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“Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other”. (Genesis 11:7) “And who is my neighbour?” (Luke 10:29) “In front of the face, I always demand more of myself.” (Emanuel Levinas, Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism) The “diversity” rhetoric of our times is a sad perversion of something sacred and beautiful.
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How (some) Canadians see themselves: I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. (Jacques Cartier) If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. (William Lyon Mackenzie King) Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. (Herbert
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American university campuses today are sites of homogeneous ideology called progressive liberalism/leftism, with its so called “policy of diversity”. Having access to all political, educational and administrative levels, these leftist intellectuals have established a complex system of supervision/militia according to what is called “political correctness”. Anyone who disagree with the official view/status quo about certain domains
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Our faith is much more messy, more gray, than we like to put on. What if the mess is holy?…What if the mess is not something to ‘fix’. (A.J. Swoboda, Messy: God Likes It That Way, Kregel Publications, 2012, p. 8) Frankly, I sometimes worry that people sell Christianity because they’ve conjured it up in their mind as
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