The destruction of culture and the growth of extremism in "problem regions" is a price paid for the "exclusive status" of the elite television "crowd"
In a book entitled "The Death of the West" by a prominent leader of American conservative traditionalists Patrick J. Buchanan he stressed more than once the part television had played in destruction of culture which he believed was equal to destruction of his country’s sovereignty and turning it into transnational corporations’ appendage. Buchanan gives us lots of evidence that transnational elite is hostile towards traditional values and that its control over society’s informational channels leads to breaking up social stability, decline of morality, family and demography indices, and to the growth of ethnic conflicts and ignorance.

One of my most diligent students, Alex, at the end of our meetings came to me and excitedly, as though they were something very personal, said:
- And yet I do not understand why you do not write Christ smiling. After all, it means that you ignore the fact that He became man, and he was inherent in the emotional world. Yes He smiled, laughed and cried. You depicted him by God, Giver of Life, Judge - all this is important and right. But when Christ is without emotion, I, and others, it is difficult to believe that He became one of us!

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Paul BUSALAEV

How I found God and peace with my atheist brother

During his teenage years and early 20s, Peter Hitchens lost his faith and rebelled against everything he had been brought up to believe in. Here, in a moving and thought-provoking account from his controversial new book, he describes his spiritual journey back to God - and the end of his feud with his brother

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If one takes a look at the location plan in any part of the City of London, high density of churches and cathedrals on the map would be the first impression that comes to mind. Indeed, before the Square Mile became a global sky-scrapping financial centre in the 20th century, it was “the” London – urban residential settlement that had evolved from Roman Londinium. One of the City’s streets is even called London Wall: the remains of Roman walls are carefully preserved, just as millenary ruins of the Mithras temple neighbouring major banks. The Londoners gradually ceased to dwell here, commuting to the City as workplace destination. Thus this district has been turning into desert in the evening time and on weekends – by strong contrast with a sea of clerks in the working hours. On weekends the City is mostly visited by a handful of tourists, whilst most of public premises are closed, including many churches. This is not surprising, given the fact that Great Britain is on one of the bottom places EU-wide in terms of church attendance. But after the indelicate sound of thunder of recent financial crisis, the Christian worship places were again refilled with hearers. Some of them coming from the offices next door with fancy suits and ties on.

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Many think about Adam and Eve from the perspective of debates about the age of the universe and the origin of human beings. The Church Fathers and the liturgy have a completely different starting point, less in terms of cosmology than Christology. The Church rarely mentions Adam without speaking of Christ, so that we reckon the “Old Adam,” or “First Adam,” in terms of the “New Adam.” This orientation of thinking about Adam helps us to understand our lives as baptized Christians, as human beings who are both fallen and raised, distorted and renewed, dying yet redeemed from death. In our baptism and sacramental life, we have died to the Old Adam and put on the New Adam – yet we are somehow partaking of both. Our cosmological questions may remain, but they receive new perspective from the Church’s reckoning of Adam. Let us humbly ask God and his Church about Adam, and see what we find.

In Genesis, we hear God calling to his creature, Adam, who has just disobeyed the divine command and who has hidden himself: “Adam, where are you?”

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Percy Jackson and the new atlanticist conservative mythology
Announced his intention to make the correct kinosagu for teens that will make Americans forget about Harry Potter, the corporation Fox would not let things slide a single detail. The head of Fox, Rupert Murdoch is very concerned about the situation with the upbringing of the younger generation. In the latest series of House »(Fox) House thrice advises young soldier who wants to slope from the army to cease to suffer foolishness and go to Iraq. When he triumphantly demonstrates doctor stumps on site their feet, we see a lack of understanding in the eyes of the Haus. Why do young soldiers, the children of the Navy, a disgrace to the country, not wanting to fight, and literally steal the fighting spirit of America?

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Even with its centuries-old roots throughout the continent, is Christianity history in the West?
In a speech at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., the visiting archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Scho"nborn, warned that “trends questioning the Christian foundation of Europe, and aggressively opposing it, are becoming stronger in several countries and in the European political arena in general.”
He explained that “Christianity is for many a foreign element in a world determined by reason, Enlightenment and democratic principles.” He contends that “this Europe, and the Western world as a whole, will not survive without the foreignness Christianity brings. In other words: Europe can only play its role in the concert of world cultures when it retains Christianity, this foreign body, as a part of its identity.”

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I suggest my dear reader to use his fantasy and imagine that it was the Nazi Germany that won the Second World War, rather than the Allied countries of the anti-Hitler coalition. Europe — from Ireland and Portugal to the Ural Mountains — fetched itself under the rule of Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.

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Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it's now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of the island's recent history. [1] It has adopted military priorities and strategies. It has sidelined Haiti's own leaders and government, and ignored the needs of the majority of its people. And it has proceeded in ways that reinforce the already harrowing gap between rich and poor. All three tendencies aren't just connected, they are mutually reinforcing.

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Who ordered the theft of the Auschwitz sign?
On 27th of January, the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation — one of the most terrible Nazi concentration camps freed by the Soviet forces — is about to take place. But it turned out that not only the winners were preparing for the anniversary but also the neo-Nazis. In the end of December, last year, right on the catholic Christmas Eve, world information agencies reported of the shocking incident in Poland: sign from the entrance gate of one of the most dreadful Nazi camps has mysteriously disappeared. Metal sign that used to hang on the gates to this hell ran "Arbeit mach frei" which means "Work sets you free".

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By Gregory TINSKY