Monthly Archives: November 2011

November 30, 2011

Natural Polytheism in China

Peter Berger

Some years ago there was a cartoon in The New Yorker showing Zeus in conversation with two other Olympian divinities. The caption read: “They call it monotheism. I call it downsizing.” Also some years ago, a Japanese philosopher (whose name … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Buddhism | 7 Comments
November 23, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Peter Berger

Due to the upcoming holiday, we will be taking a week off from posting. I wish all my readers and their families a very happy Thanksgiving. We will return to our normal schedule next week!

Posted in Culture | 1 Comment
November 16, 2011

What Would Jesus Do?

Peter Berger

As was widely reported by the media both in Britain and in this country, on October 15, 2011 Occupy London (the British imitator of the Occupy Wall Street movement) put up a protest camp in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral. … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Politics, Protestantism | 21 Comments
November 9, 2011

Is the Vatican about to Occupy Wall Street?

Peter Berger

The Roman Catholic Church has had difficulties with modernity for a long time. In 1861 Pope Pius IX (famous for his Syllabus of Errors, an exhaustive compendium of modern heresies) made matters very clear in a famous “allocution”, which rejected … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism | 19 Comments
November 2, 2011

Movements

Peter Berger

We are awash in movements. The Arab Spring is one long series of movements, like a row of candles, each one igniting the next one in the row—Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, then back to Benghazi, and so on across the Middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe, Politics, United States | 14 Comments