The college handbook forbids students to embrace or promote “doctrinal errors” from the 4th through the 21st centuries, “such as...
The college handbook forbids students to embrace or promote “doctrinal errors” from the 4th through the 21st centuries, “such as Arianism, Socinianism, Pelagianism, Skepticism, Feminism.” If drawn to such ideas, they must “inform the administration immediately and honestly in a letter offering to withdraw from the College.”
Wtf college is this Clearly a hokey religious one But which
It’s New Saint Andrews College (quote is from this article), which is part of a weird, frightening little religious subculture I just spent a night of insomnia reading all about
Man this is so close to being #my fucking ingroup
But… Protestantism
Weirdly close to mine too, or my desired in-group at least, except the whole Christian thing. I mean, intelligence, Anglophilic traditionalism, drinking, self-presentation… and this is something that a lot of people might find trivial, but that fact that the folks in the picture make an effort to dress properly is hugely important to me. It automatically makes the women look like marriage material, for example. Seriously I will convert to almost any political/cultural views for a group that present themselves like that. Just not to Christianity.
I also notice that, like the European New Right, they’re taking the “Gramscian” approach of focussing on culture for long-term change rather than politics for short-term. It seems to be a thing these days.
there is a fair argument to be made that mormonism isn’t really christian (^:
OMG no. When I was last in Salt Lake City I visited their temple compound. Mormonism is the most tasteless fake made-up invented religion imaginable. You’re not allowed inside the big boxy temple building itself, but they have this cut-away model of it in their visitors’ centre. One of the rooms in it is “the beautiful room” decorated in a vaguely baroque style where, at the end of your full initiation or whatever, you get to experience a preview of what heaven is supposed to be like. When I saw that I was almost overwhelmed with compassion for Mormons and for the culture they come from, that they are so deracinated from the great cultural traditions that give context and meaning, so separated from the beauty and wonder of this here present world. But perhaps that’s the point of living in a desert.
What I’m really looking for is the cultural rootedness of the Japanese, together with the sophisticated taste and attention to quality and craft of the Japanese combined with the animism of Shinto and the pro-society orientation of the Japanese. Also hot springs. I really have no idea where to go to find that, though.
Cultural rootedness, sophisticated popular taste, appreciation of skilled labor, pagan sensibility, prosociality, that’s pretty much of what I’ve been enjoying about Cascadia. All in an Anglophone society that presents some of the most plausible continuity with American mytho-heritage.
We’ve even got hot springs, but they’re mostly tucked away in obscure hollows in the volcanic ranges. That’s one of my long-term retirement daydreams, buy a plot with one and open an onsen ryokan.