http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/ Blood Pact Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:00:03 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2005. Christianity Liberal Writing http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/42.html Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:57:04 GMT An old friend of mine posted an essay by Domingo Castro de Guzman in her blog. Check it out: http://sarahbelle.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2005/10/why_be_a_revolu.html The essay, like a lot of the discourse on liberation and freedom these days, smacks of the postmodern tendency to take post-structuralist assumptions to their logical conclusion--a totalizing discourse that ironically started out to combat totalizing discourses. I feel uneasy about the essay, suspicious that there might be verbal sleight-of-hand involved. First, it defines the revolution as negative liberation,... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=42 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/41.html Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:11:55 GMT If we were to accept the version of Philippine history as an unfinished revolution, a revolution initiated by the "revolt of the masses" but was later hi-jacked by the bourgeoisie, then what we have is a divided nation. In fact, our nationhood is even suspect. Once upon a time, the masses dreamed of and fought for a nationhood of free citizens only to wake up in a nightmare of internal colonialism. The old Spanish masters have been replaced by local ones who in turn serve the interests of the old regime now transformed into the universal fellowship of capitalists, otherwise known as... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=41 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/40.html Sun, 21 Aug 2005 06:22:46 GMT The Bible, and Christianity with it, has been condemned time and again as phallocentric. The fact is overlooked that the dominant discourse during the time of its inscription was phallocentric. The Bible, after all, is the word of God inspired in men and not the actual word of God. So why should contemporary feminists fault Biblical writers for not being feminists? And even if the Bible were hypotetically the actual word of God, like the Koran is believed to be so, why should God (who would be speaking to humanity in order to be understood) speak using a discourse that would be centuries... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=40 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/39.html Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:34:28 GMT An old friend once told me how she broke up with a guy because they were going too far. She was the first person who introduced to me the meaning of the phrase "everything but the girl." I did not judge her for "going too far" and I did not judge her for moving away, running away to a different direction to find new friends of whom I was one. People set their own limits. The interplay of id and superego is personal business, and for Christians it's usually the superego that wins. I guess this is all part of carrying your cross--relinquishing unauthorized happiness. I've always... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=39 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/38.html Sun, 07 Aug 2005 05:24:07 GMT Alienation, they say, can be traced to the industrial revolution when craftsmen were forced to become factory workers. They simply could not compete either by way of volume or quality against the factory. And so they had to give in to the new world order. In their workshops, they owned the means of production; in the factories, they didn’t. In their workshops, they were the masters; they made and sold products. In the factories, they were little more than slaves; they sold their labour power for products owned by the company and driven by capital. In their workshops, they were... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=38 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/37.html Wed, 27 Jul 2005 03:29:06 GMT Ok, so I'm in Singapore now. I had to be here to complete registration formalities at the National University of Singapore last week. In the meantime, there's nothing to do for at least one more week but to read. No matter, I love the libraries here, and the constant reading (6-8 hours a day) is doing wonders for expanding my intellectual horizons that have remained stagnant during my three-year stint with the corporate world. So about my initial plans of ditching this blogrive account for blogspot--screw that. blogspot sucks. i posted something three days ago and it still won't... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=37 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/36.html Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:01:10 GMT i got a new blog. i'm maintaining this one for personal stuff--journal entries, frivolus instrospection. for serious criticism of society and culture, this is the blog i'm maintaining: http://powerofblood.blogspot.com/ http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=36 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/35.html Sat, 28 May 2005 08:32:00 GMT "You are in this world, but not of this world" is a statement that captures the Christian attitude towards secular society. St. Augustine's framework of seeing the Church as a "city" separate from secular powers has been the popular way of seeing Christianity--at least, for Christians. For outsiders, Christians (whether Catholic or evangelical) are not that different from anyone--they can be just as hypocritical and judgmental as your average Joe. Even more, in fact. But there is one area that is such a sore spot, such a bloody battleground for the devout--sexuality. I can remember it... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=35 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/34.html Wed, 18 May 2005 10:34:34 GMT My thoughts on abortion and law were stirred when someone from the netalive forum a couple of years ago brought up the question of whether or not law and morality should overlap. The guy claimed that law was "far more about giving structure to society in order to enable it to function smoothly and far less about any shared moral values." Naturally, my thoughts immediately turned to abortion because i personally believed in the immoral nature of abortion and yet also believed abortion should be legalized. Below are excerpts from some of these thoughts i posted in netalive.org. I... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=34 http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/archive/33.html Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:39:54 GMT A couple of years ago, someone in the netalive forum actually posited the idea that faith is a kind of neurosis. this guy had very strong beliefs in the power of logic and rational thinking. to him, christians deliberately refuse rationality and logic. however, he viewed this not just as stubbornness but as neurosis. this means christians are crazy. before joining an online forum such as netalive, my knowledge of how westerners think was really limited. i knew there were atheists in the West, but i didn't know that there were so many. furthermore, i didn't realize that a marked... (more) http://childeoftheblood.blogdrive.com/comments?id=33