Tag: Religion in America
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Civilizational Limitations: Ethnic Chauvinism and Religious Rigidity
The persistent emergence of overly-performed ethnic chauvinism, racial arrogance and habits of religious dogmatic or rigid orientation is a combination that will degenerate our civilization far faster than any wave of migrant ever could. As those who immigrate to Western countries have to look up to essentially no men or people no more better, nobler…
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Albert Pike’s Life and Philosophical Legacy in American Esotericism
This article is a combination of transcription and summation of Canadian philosopher Manly P. Hall’s Seminars on the life and ideas of Albert Pike in 1958 tracing the origins of the Wisdom Tradition, which often takes on a form of mythmaking in Masonic lore. A more in-depth factual biography of Albert Pike’s life, views and…
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John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism
The words of John Adams, second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97) on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism. “The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients,…
The American Minervan 