Backward Mutters

  • Vampires and Vitality

    “Vampire stories and the Real Presence”, James Rogers Rather than the resurrected Lord who willingly offers his own sacrificed body and blood to give humans eternal life, Vampires are resurrected lords who sacrifice unwilling humans to take their blood for eternal life for themselves. (HT: Gene Veith)

  • "Masculinity is just learned behavior"

    “Lagging at school, the butt of cruel jokes: are males the new Second Sex?“, Elizabeth Day. the guardian/The Observer There are those, however, who take exception to the notion that men are a downtrodden minority, unable to speak out for fear of ridicule or repression. “It’s an idea that’s made more…

  • "Jesus Christ himself proposed a still more frightening question…"

    “Yet there is a sense in which a focus on today’s obedience makes a long view possible: it does not yield a map, but it does yield a confidence that he who has called us is faithful, and will conduct the whole Church to her journey’s end. About a dozen…

  • Waistdeep in Romanticism

    “I had already been waist­deep in Romanticism; and likely enough, at any moment, to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantasies was romantic enough in…

  • Will the New Creation be a withering fast?

    “The letter and spirit of scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognisable as human bodies at all or else of a…