4) 'Belonging to many networks does not add up to having a community, no matter how many you belong to or how often your telephone rings.'. From “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling” (1st pub 1992,9th English print 2024) by John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018).

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‘Peoples who do not know where they come from do not know where they have to go; or rather, where they are being led by those who have falsified their history—towards the edge of the abyss; that is, towards their historical suicide.’. Marcelo Gullo Omodeo.

2/2 . 'have been putting huge resources into the building of a 'disinformation industrial complex’.’.Quoting from Thanks for this and your tireless research and dissemination of discoveries, UKColumn @ukcolumn.

1/2 ‘Over the past decade, Western governments, increasingly concerned by the challenge to their geopolitical policies by independent media organisations and individual comment on social media platforms, . ' . .

RT @AlisonBlunt: 14) '"Language," he goes on, "has everywhere become a power unto itself, which now grabs the people with ghostly arms and….

RT @AlisonBlunt: 18) 'The term 'development', for example, when applied to whole societies, refers to a process of total transformation wit….

RT @AlisonBlunt: 32) David Cayley, 'Pörksen undertook this investigation reluctantly. "Describing the disabling of the vernacular," he says….

'Bavinck presses home the devasting critique that historical criticism is philosophical dogma disguised as neutral method.'. Quoting from ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published 13.1.21 @CraigACarter1 .

i) 'The views of Hegel, Schelling, Harnack and company are, in fact, reducible to old heresies from church history: “What appears to be new is often very old.” (41)'. Quoting from ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, 13.1.21.

h) 'He is resisting the oft implied idea that old dogma is just superstition and tradition, whereas liberal theology is scientific and based on up-to-date research.'. Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published 13.1.21.

g) ‘Bavinck insists that both the “church-dogmatic” and the “historical-scientific” views of Christianity “contend to be the ‘historical, authentic understanding of the gospel.’”. ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published 13.1.21.

f) 'It is a philosophy derived from rational speculation, not a discovery of historical research.’.Indeed. Quoting from ‘Bavinck on Historical Criticism’ by Craig A. Carter, published on his substack, 13.1.21.

e) 'But “Harnack unavoidably brings along a certain view” and that view “excludes all miracles, because miracles would be a violation of natural laws.” (41) Harnack’s doctrinaire anti-supernaturalism is the foundation, not the outcome, of his “historical approach.”'.

d) 'Harnack begins by saying that what constitutes Christianity is a historical question and will be answered by historical research.'.

c) 'But since the fact is that God became flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, this means that such an approach to historical research “does violence to phenomena and is nowhere capable of consistent application.” (40)'.

b) 'The whole enterprise was based on the assumption that the Christ of the creeds could not possibly be the Jesus of history because the human individual cannot “contain” divinity.'.

a) ‘Bavinck notes that after Strauss “nearly everyone took the route of historical criticism to arrive at knowledge of the essence of Christianity.” (40)'.

5/5 'He says, "Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education." This, clearly expressed, means, "We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.”’. Quoting from ‘Heretics’ (1905) by G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).

4/5 'He says, "Away with your old moral formulae; I am for progress." This, logically stated, means, "Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it."'.- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).