Elements of Lutheran Reforms

It is interesting to consider how after nearly 500 years the ideas of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and the Roman Catholic Church have shaped Christian ideas about the salvation, faith, the Eucharist and sacraments. Protestant reformers of the visible Christian church made their reformed ideas at great personal cost and the thirty years war of liberation from Romanism and it's subject princes tore the European peasantry. The American revolutionaries were of the reformed school-George Washington if Catholic couldn't have revolted from his Prince, although Britain had reduced Romanism already since Henry VIII. Values developed by Martin Luther in the 16th century reformation stimulated political and ecclesiastical changes immediately. As the United States fails to maintain a strong Protestant religious ethic it commensurately develops globalism, concentration of wealth through networking and a variety of forms of ad hoc imperialism with the collateral degradation of nationalism and democracy. Protest against inhuman forces of impersonal hierarchical power in church and state are basic to the revolutionary esprit. In direct relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ mankind finds freedom.

Approximately half of the German princes took up the independence from Roman catholicism movement right from the start. The first democracy in Europe-the Dutch democracy led by the Dewitt brothers in the 16^th century. Severing ties from the Holy Roman Empire at Vienna was essential and just a first step in the rise of the age of democracy.

All was not perfect in the Lutheran style reformation though. Martin Luther was quite conservative and retained some Roman catholic liturgical forms although abolishing the exclusive priestly caste.

When the hierarchy of corrupt Bishops and priests was overthrown Luther advocated and received support for Erastian transition; the German princes themselves became the religious leaders appointing bishops for themselves. Frederick the Elector did follow Luther's instructions for making visitations to German districts to correct the corruptions made during the ineffective prior regime. The people were ready to receive the word of God in a more egalitarian way and German book publishing of the Bible skyrocketed from fewer than 100 books annually in the entire country to thousands and thousands of vernacular editions of the Bible.

Mobs actually burned two of the first catholic priests of Prussia that converted to the reformed relationship to God that Luther set out. Anabaptists were persecuted by new Protestants to for abolishing infant baptism. Questions and controversy about infant baptism, and of how much water needed to be used in any baptism were taken so seriously that many were put to death. That seems remarkable today, so I will toss in my own ideas on the topic of do infants have original sin and does baptism do them any good since they have no ability to intentionally accept the Lord as their personal savior through faith.

It was pointed out that John the Baptist has awareness of God in the womb, even so John was born with original sin. I believe that original sin predominantly refers to the mortal context of being subject to entropy as a biological being. Hence every human has original sin. The entropy condition was a reduction from the perfect environment of Eden and imposed to correct the errors of will of Adam and Eve.

Infants have yet to develop consciousness sufficiently to choose willfully to do evil. They may all have a naturally sort of trust or faith as they are dependent on and reacting to others. Baptizing them may acknowledge that trust socially and can do no harm. Since parents are generally regarded as lawfully accountable for their charges again baptism can do no harm and may confer an element of grace upon the infant. If the infant grows to develop faith as an adult then they may become born in the Spirit as saved souls. Jesus Christ is not bound to the legalisms of liturgical methods or theological positions such as humans entertain. 

Human beings need firewalls in the visible church to defend against interpretive error and union within the invisible church of Jesus Christ.

I tend to believe in the Lutheran concept of salvation through faith yet also have the Calvinist concepts that election and pre-determinism by God are correct. I also would think that the Eucharist is not a transubstantiation of the bread and wine into human blood or body, but rather something more like a commemoration and recognition of the fundamental elements of mass and energy as God's. 
 

The Eucharist would be an acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God in everything, analogous to an assertion of political sovereignty. It's a metaphysical statement on the ultimate building blocks of cosmology. 
 

Visible church outlets in the consumer era may be compared to franchise cheeseburger stores on Main street. It may be true that McDonald's was the first vast franchise empire yet they do not have an exclusive formula to the true cheeseburger. Even the faithful may wander into Burger King or Wendy's now and then. Also, there are home cheeseburger outlets relating directly to the true Platonic Universal form of cheeseburger. 

Particular cheeseburgers are examples of forms of the Universal. Partaking in then cheeseburger acknowledges the organic Earthly origin as grain from the Earth in the Eucharist. The wine is the organic grapes of the Earth. The Lord took the body of the Earth-the organic bread, and human beings broke it on the cross spilling his blood. Yet the salvation of the Lord given to mankind of faith transcends the world and it's consumable produce.

I would guess that the idea of relationship surpassing form is the fundamental reformist paradigm in the gestalt of the church with the Lord. Liturgical forms and concepts about sacraments are a continuum of respect between Creator and created. That relationship continues to be significant even as salvation through faith rather than works or sacraments administered by a sacerdotal set-aside priestly caste has risen to the positive better expression modality for Christians. 
 

The priesthood of believers is a correct form rather than a partitioned dichotomy of priests and laity mirroring that of traditional aristocracy-subjects paradigms. Developing an active priesthood of believers church structure with just three ranks of beginner, intermediate and elder will be a challenge and a renewal of reformation. In the world today the political drift is toward ad hoc neo-imperlialism of class of wealth through global networks.

A Matter of Trans-finite Sets and a Good Algorithm

I wonder if one could write an algorithm using calculus within trans-finite set theory (series) such as Cantor developed for sets to construct shapes logically branching to create new kinds of series? If intervals and point coordinates are nominal ontologically from monism, any structure of coordinates and intervals inclusive of relativistically altered shapes probably can be created for n-topologies with a decent algorithm compounding itself infinitely  constructing dimensions.

If  I had taken calculus in college I would write the algorithm myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor

August 6 100th Anniversary of War of the West on Russia

August 6, 1914 marks the 100th anniversary of the war of the west upon Russia. On that date Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia and a day later Germany invaded. It is notable that a century after the war of the west that took the Ukraine from Russia for a time and that put Lenin and the Bolsheviks into power with the help of the Kaiser, history in some ways is repeating itself.

One wonders if the President's Benghazi news team will report events in the Eastern Ukraine with the same candor?

The First Bastards Cain and Abel Issued From Original SIn

Contemplating the failure of American public education to provide the alternative of private school vouchers I stumbled across a deeper insight into the origin of mankind. Adam and Eve of course perpetrated the original sin having intercourse without being actually married and in so doing producing bastards named Cain and Abel who married the local girls of Y'Earth. Thus humanity was established by bastards creating the bastard line mankind. Mankind needs the intervention of Jesus Christ to be renormalized unto God-and that cost the Lord His mortal life. Jesus Christ was the sole man born of woman who wasn't a bastard since his Father is God.

Schoolchildren today primed by the devil in public schools are mass produced with the mark of the beast about them. That view is perhaps not so rare in people as they age and note the pervasive trend of humanity toward works of evil if not folly. Perhaps it's folly for repeating the same works in line with Solomon's observation that there is nothing new under the sun. Politically speaking humanity seem to be naturally bent toward imperialism as rulers forced to share power in oligarchy reluctantly or be hierarchialy placed followers working for the corporate-government evil empire of choice.

Yet Pope Francis recently said that man and woman are the divine form for marriage. So I guess he is right more or less. God created man and woman in a relationship that is a natural marriage with Eve as close to Adam as a rib during their life together. Humanity can bastardize any institution though so even marriage is endangered by the brave new world.

Martin Luther said (quote from Schaff Vol. 7 History of Christian Church) that

“matrimony (is) a gift of God, wedlock the sweetest, chastest life, above all celibacy, or else a veritable hell.” He had it right. Yet I think the devil attacks virtually anbything that works, and prefers conflict and conquest in human affairs to innovation of better, newer paths.

Well to not leave this post on that note in this poetry month I will quote Schaff about Luther again from Volume 7 of Schaff's history,

“He played the lute, sang melodiously, and composed tunes to his hymns, especially the immortal, Ein feste Burg," which gives classic expression to his heroic faith in God and the triumph of the gospel. He never lost his love for Virgil and Cicero, which he acquired as a student at Erfurt. He was fond of legends, fables, and proverbs. He would have delighted in the stories of old "Mother Goose," and in Grimm’s "Hausmährchen."

He translated some of Esop’s Fables, and wrote a preface to an edition which was published after his death. He enjoyed the beauties of nature, loved trees and flowers, was fond of gardening, watched with wonder the household of the bees, listened with delight to the singing birds, renewed his youth with the return of spring, and adored everywhere the wisdom and goodness of nature’s God.

Looking at a rose, he said, "Could a man make a single rose, we should give him an empire; but these beautiful gifts of God come freely to us, and we think nothing of them. We admire what is worthless, if it be only rare. The most precious of things is nothing if it be common." "The smallest flowers show God’s wisdom and might. Painters cannot rival their color, nor perfumers their sweetness; green and yellow, crimson, blue, and purple, all growing out of the earth. And yet we trample on lilies as if we were so many cows."

He delighted in a refreshing rain. "God rains," he said, "many hundred thousand guilders, wheat, rye, barley, oats, wine, cabbage, grass, milk." Talking of children, he said, "They speak and act from the heart. They believe in God without disputing, and in another life beyond the present. They have small intellect, but they have faith, and are wiser than old fools like us. Abraham must have had a hard time when he was told to kill Isaac. No doubt he kept it from Sarah. If God had given me such all order, I should have disputed the point with Him. But God has given his only begotten Son unto death for us."

Correcting an Implicit Inefficiency of Capitalism

If there is implicit structural inefficiency in contemporary capitalism is it possible to innovate a remedy? Capitalism applications have different forms in differing economic circumstances, levels of sophistication and so forth some being more practical than others. Capitalism presently has an a bias toward expensive means of production limiting the potential number of product producers, and perhaps requiring substantial capital investment. If one could invent a universal hat-making machine easy to make at home it would put hat makers and related hat making supply industries out of business. The market is biased against most-efficient, lowest cost methods of production. The market runs against the present ecological-economic drive toward lowest-entropy economics as a principle of environmental conservation.

Traditionally in classical economics there has been analysis about market efficiency. With high-speed quantitative trading today that works with cold-blooded machine-language analysis of abstract values for instant speed-of-light dark pool exploitation the concept of market efficiency also means eliminating the human element from business and moving toward a version of Adam Smith's capitalism evolving to consolidation of power for the sake of power. Even so, capitalism has an innate bias against inventing the lowest cost way of production such that it would virtually open source.

Capitalism instead favors expensive means of production with rare limited entry producers such as makers of computer chips. Though mass production lowers cost and a corporation produces immense profits social economic development moves toward capital investment in businesses that benefit from investment and become more specialized and rarefied in production moving even beyond few existing rivals. Alternatively technologies that produce goods at very low cost and require little public investment are avoided. Inventors are disincentivized to search for such product inventions with no rewards for producer efficiency. There is an implicit bias toward expensive means of production and products.

When a dichotomy develops between producers and consumers on the basis of corporate hierarchies gathered about an exclusive, costly production industry democracy obviously dwindles. Though planetary masses may be drafted into becoming employees and affiliates of the costly production corporations the efficiency of capitalism suffers. When political power is taken by economic powers of capitalism even the potential for finding or inventing low-cost and efficient open source means of production dwindles. In such a deformed variety of capitalism anthropogenic entropy increases abnormally quickly.

Jesus Christ as the Turning Point in History (audio)

This is an essay I wrote about Jesus Christ as the turning point in history.

Metavnoic Morphs (poem)

Raging against the seafloor
where hopes pinned to nothingness slide
too quickly with seafloor convergence
a mid-Atlantic rise of crowding fumaroles

Because the beginning of time inflated
with a word of pure reason
dimensions caught in strong currents let galaxies fly

Force and energy exclusive to morning shadows
singularities shorn of Universality
particulars required to feel the partitions
these dreams fade like little cat feet.

If No SuperXP Spinoff, Try Linux Mint

Since support for Windows XP bit the dust without a spinoff subdivision to develop the venerable OS for desktop styles as if Microsoft could have two colors of Model T, the realistic choice for p0eople with old computers is to install Ubuntu version 12 because it's easy. Then one can install Linux Mint version 16 and have two operating systems to replace XP.

Ubuntu's Linux and Mint's Linux each are open source operating systems and hence free though they will accept donations. Mint is what XP could be if it upgraded a little. It's simple, streamlined and with thousands of easy to install software apps. There is a lot of free software included with Mint.

 http://www.linuxmint.com/

I suggest installing Ubuntu first because it is easy to duel boot another Linux operating system providing the opportunity to share the drive c memory it whatever ratio you like. Mint perhaps should have 3/4ths of drive c.

 http://www.ubuntu.com/download

It is something of a failure of innovation for Microsoft to allow its popular XP to die as an obsolete species and pursue just one OS development at a time. What business model suggests one can't develop two products at the same time  in different directions?

Odd Light-Possibly Electricity Waste- Seen on Mars

N.A.S.A. has produced photos of what may be electrical waste by unknown life forms on Mars. The light seems something like a very large flashlight arising from the ground. It could also be some sort of vapor backlighted by sunrise, a glow-in-the-dark creature visiting that mostly vacant world or a secret space program element. Earth persons had better get an insulated aluminum log ostrog with a dome for colonialists up there right away before the aliens take all of the good view property. Waterfront props don't go to the slowt.

http://www.chron.com/news/strange-weird/article/NASA-photo-captures-strange-bright-light-on-Mars-5382677.php

N.A.S.A. rover photo of possible electrical waste on Mars

Something About the Universe (with audio link)

Philosophically speaking the configuration of energy in various forms of steady state mass with dimensions, time, motion etc is abstract yet contingent unto the spirit of God.  Strings, quarks and other steady state mass seem to be entangled waveforms arisen from an implicate or implicit field underlying space-time and mass energy.

 http://www.buzzsprout.com/20597/164185-the-implicate-quantum-cosmology

There is entropy and a direction in that field regarding time evidently, yet those are contingent to the actualization of the field-Universe. The scale of the Universe and the capacity for it to recur are I would think be delimited by the intellectual capacity of the human mind. a hypothesized event cycle such as inflation, big bang, or colliding membranes such as Turok described obviously could be posited to recur infinitely though there is no necessity.

 http://www.statecolumn.com/2014/04/boss-uses-140000-quasars-to-make-most-precise-measurement-yet-of-expanding-universe/

The quantum state of a given kind of atom might be hypothesized to recur within given field conditions yet one knows that isn't all of the story to the Universe, and neither is one event-process for the history of this Universe likely to be all.

I believe God created the Universe-in particular Jesus Christ as the Word of God. He may create infinite numbers of Universes though. A Universe created by God may be entirely contingent within the Spirit of God,  with energy and mass being some sort of spiritual element of waves with selectively broken field symmetries or limited access that differentiate as substance and appear to be solid-state mass.

There are lots of ideas to consider in the field.

Does Entropy Increase Cause Expansion of Space-Time or Black Box Mystery

One may wonder about the effect of entropy on space-time. Although initially the phenomenon of gravity notably drew mass together in clumps as galaxies entropy was increasing overall. Gravity spends energy in work drawing mass into stars and such possibly excreting entropy and expanding space-time or not The answer is as uncertain as the content of MH 370's black box that could be empty or have the voice of a computer taking over the plain by remote communication cutting off communication and leaving just and enigmatic hsss on the voice data recorder. If an honest national intelligence agency get possession of the devices perhaps we shall learn the facts.

 http://www.statecolumn.com/2014/04/boss-uses-140000-quasars-to-make-most-precise-measurement-yet-of-expanding-universe/

The Protestant reformation was a liberal movement that freed up Christians to read the Bible in their own vernacular for-themselves without the intervention of a separate and higher order of Christian called priests. Sarcedotal celibacy aside the priesthood of believers was what Martin Luther thought Christians should be-all Christians in different roles. One of the coincident results of Protestant countries letting people read the Bible for-themselves was a quickened pace of technological development in Germany, Britain and the United States in comparison to Spain, Mexico and Peru. That may be good or bad.

If a theocrat wants to rule all the world including politically that is bad. The twelve disciples would not have ruled the world, water-boarded or held prisoners for an Inquisition as fell the ill fate of Emperor Charles's' Archbishop who administered too liberal of last rights of forgiveness through the Lord (Cardoza), yet technology can be bad as well as good. It is easy to imagine that the drive to mechanization, genetic engineering and nano-tech machines will not result in the transformation of mankind to a better kind of antinomian Nietzschianism but instead will result in the extirpation of human life as a superfluous biological entity threatening the well-being of self-aware super-creatures neither biological or mechanical.

Historically speaking liberalism is about the empowerment of individuals over authority. Martin Luther saw direct faith relationships to the Lord and the Bible as basic while Romanists of the time cynically viewed their position as one of empowerment to rule all of Christendom and to sell them indulgences (a paper) that would forgive their temporal sins and those of relatives in purgatory. Socialism is a soft sort of authoritarianism and statism as is global corporatism that deceives some into believing it to be free enterprise and respecting of individual civil liberty. Corporatists rule with implicit power without formally needing to declare it so.

Conservatism tends to be toward the direction of consolidated wealth, power and authority. The broadcast media in the present age is a tool of concentrated wealth and power instead of being democratically apportioned with citizen pod-cast slices. In the United States liberalism has drifted toward meaning antinomian, no-moral-boundaries libertarianism in fact under a neo-socialist state alliance with global corporatism. Martin Luther was a champion of liberalism yet descried the foul unintended consequence of church reform that let the German peasantry feel feel to indulge themselves in immoral acts since their was an absence of ruling moral authority for a while in the interregnum before establishment of a more conservative protestant Church.

A historical cycle finds liberals seeking to free themselves from repressive conservatives. When liberals are successful they may become antinomian libertines or alternatively overly puritanical legalists following a too conservative trend themselves. They become slaves to the law as were the failed Jewish conservatives in the time of the Lord. Jesus freed mankind from the bondage to sin through failing efforts to cohere with perfect conformity to legalisms. That is a difficult point for some, and am impossibly vague or preposterous point for eleatic debaucherers for-themselves working along a premise of pure personal egoism ethically speaking.

In the post-reformation an evolution of cooperative Christian inter-sectarian ecumenicism has arisen that acknowledges the fallibility of human judgment regarding select doctrines. There is no need or perhaps wisdom in seeking to compel all Christian to accept one particular point of view on all matters theological or Christological. It is expedient to have firewalls to wrong opinion and consolidation of authority not only in church affairs but in international and economic affairs as well.

In the biological realm there isn't much intelligence (no jokes about D.C.). Human beings appear to have the highest intellect yet it is not competently applied to manage either economics or environment. A kind of natural inertia drives most cells along with plain notions or channels of right and wrong. Plenty is good and privations bad, yet too much plenty can generate species depletion too. Sentient beings advanced intelligence from neocortex process increases are few on Earth. Most biological life being destroyed by humanity inn this anthropocene era it isn't improbable that human life will become the first casualty of a new world order saturated with super-communicating, transcending physics changing artificial intelligence life-forms able to turn off any sector of existence as readily as finding a g.p.s. address is today.

CEO EIch Forced Out by Mozilla for Supporting Hetero Marriage

C.E.O. Brendan Eich of Mozilla has been forced out by the Mozilla board for contributing $1000 to Calif. Proposition 8 several years ago. Prop 8 defined marriage as between a man and woman. The homo clan has leverage in the Internet and is intolerant of antipathetic political opinion. Fag McCarthyism is an ironic political phenomena. Hollywood has probably already been purged. Eich is the highest level casualty of the radical democrat movement to purge society of political opponents of homosexual marriage.

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/04/04/mozillas-brendan-eich-persecutor-or-persecuted/

The fag clan inevitably uses personal financial attack as a political weapon. I was banned from writing at Helium.com Dec. 24, 2010 where I had been earning $200 a month or so as a top 5% blind juried peer-reviewed writer. My political incorrectness was in using the word 'fag' now and then amidst 600 to 700 articles on a variety of topics. The Internet offers innumerable ways including unauthorized altering of a few lines of code as an insider to marginalize political opponents. Hitler used homos too through the S.A. to radically alter the German social/political structure.

There is nothing funny about economic terrorism upon individual AMerican citizens in retaliation for writing or acting generally and even righteously in accord with constitutional guidelines. Even so we asked our comedy advisor Big Bubby Chauvin about the error of thinking queerness is a marriagable act. Bubby said, 'Ain't nothing sexual about a blowkob-we chewed gum and walked at the same time in D.C. drawl the time and what's what.'

Corporatism is a world-conquering activity exploiting financial and social networking to totalize the social environment. Purging antipathetic political opponents and controlling political free speech is simply too easy to fail to exploit for those concentrating wealth and power. Homosexuals are convenient devices to implement social takeover with since so many free-thinkers are opposed to the illogical mislabeling of a fag-end biological extinction as a marriage that is intended to be a social method of biological reproduction.

At least the inventive Eich is rich, and he may be able to find a job as a C.E.O. in some Moslem country or maybe Russia.

Two the Gnu Civilization (poem)

Operating systems of red and blue
theme packaged premises of dreams fort tomorrow
ahead of plug in ergonometric ties
metavnoic springs with political quanta
pingers of horned prongs like ming things Shanghai'd
to flaming hydrogen oceans roiling under the winds

Space-time networks of power filling
cavities of desperate maps with shadows
sculpted light hills and crenelated mimes
with life flowing a blood red river of your's
uncertainly sure of curdling up to a fag end
where life stops to depopulate
gathering in the valleys of pent up strife

Quick like bunnies running amok
married too produce 1+1+1 ...
the little round world environment finite yek unbounded surface
littered with piles of goodies made in factories

Spring reptiles flex muscles in the sun
as nodes of opportunity of warped space-time lines of protocol
virtual quarks placed with just that panache of energy
glistening like gnu green leaves

water falling through chasms of disconformity splashing
time dilating too slowed down approaching infinite transition to nothingness
all over again
where the smell of roses and low entropy are fresh
while blue shifts to oblivion colliding in the same pile ups
as the vanishing point of time in space

The city in the lost valley
behind doors in one of innumerable buildings
shelters parties about the purpose
-for others an uncertain purpose
where with all geodesic arches over the road 

and under the mines led
emerging through columns and a portico
when brick slum tenements are neat reminders of past
potential for future vacant worlds of experience

up above the difficult cliff and climb onto the dirt ledge
that country lanes flowed from like streams
to cobblestones roads of Euro-designs morphed in walk-up permutations of being emptied of warehouses where yuppies might gather
levering packages on slopes before drought and weather climes fall
on the plateau with encroaching dead serts
tourists will make up revenue shortfalls
like wealth redistributed to special interests a bridge too far
yek space modules last exit from unforeseen exigence
took flight to form the gnu civilization.

Mediaocracy Get's Boost From Supreme Court Campaign Finance aNo-Limits Decision

Mediaocracy got a big boost from the 5-4 decision in favor of the sky's the limit on campaign advertising financing by individuals in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/04/02/legal-experts-react-to-supreme-courts-campaign-finance-ruling/

The founders did not foresee that U.S. politics would become defined by a broadcast media and concentrated wealth purchases of ads. Neither would they have known that U.S. politicians would be so dull as to be incapable of reforming the broadcast media transforming it to citizen podcast slices. That would halt the pervasive mediaocracy of the political realpolitik as a shill for corporate interests of concentrated wealth and power.

The F.C.C. is malleable to the Congress. Limiting aggregate spending may be anathema to the court and to capitalist sensibilities yet real political philosophers from Aristotle to Acton understood the effect that concentrated wealth and political power have; it absolutely corrupts. Corrupt means corrupt-all of human society suffers.

The Ukraine, Crimea & Problems of Erastrian and Atheist Intolerance of Spiritual Liberty

Separating church from state control is one of a few perennial challenges for mankind. Religious intolerance historically is a function of the will to power and a matter of factual control of political power through the intolerance of political opposition. That is the principal that makes democracy impossible for Moslem countries wherein the religious authority is regarded as universal. Sharia law is in effect catholic. That institutional method is ancient and found in Mesopotamian mud.

Urth had its gods enacting as oligarchs atop ziggurats the archetype activities of life. Rulers were gods embodied as man down through the ages as Pharaoh and Caesar. Christianity overthrew that premise with Christ. Jesus was a servant rather than a ruler of humanity.

Constantine the Roman Emperor, born in England of a British woman named Helena saw a sign from God and was moved to convert to Christianity. He founded the Eastern Roman Empire capitol at Byzantium and developed the role of Emperor as head of the Christian Church although that role was vague enough at first. There was after all a Pope at Rome and differences between more Orthodox and Catholic sects as well as four other traditional patriarchates with equal claim for spiritual prominence besides that of Rome.

Charles, Charlemagne and the Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire for a time could also claim to be first as political rulers of the Christian Church with the power to appoint Bishops and other church leaders. The problems of the Roman Papacy in its relation politically to kings of the various nations often was one of papal claims to rule politically as well as spiritually with kings disputing that right. The issue was often one of who had a right to rule the unified church and state. Those practical power issues tended to eclipse the democratic rights of the laity or common folk. The political rights of the common people tended to develop meaningfully along with the emancipation of Christian fellowship from oppressive state and ecclesiastical authority, and the process evolved over hundreds of years.

During the Protestant reformation the reformers such as Martin Luther, Zwingli, Hus and Calvin took umbrage to not only corrupt clerical practices and wrong doctrine, they found a fundamental priesthood of believers approach to a direct relationship with Christ better and more true than a hierarchical trickle down of doctrine from a priesthood to a laity. There were numerous unintended consequences of the reformation though.

With the reformation Kings such as Henry the Eight broke off from Rome and the Roman pope and became their own pope leading their own church. Like Caesar as a god to be worshiped the nationalist popes leading their own churches became pseudo gods issuing ecclesiastical rules by decree. Decretals of the British female pope Queen Elizabeth set the rules for mandatory church attendance and forms of worship permissible in her realm. The protestant reformation became a more complex breakup of political and ecclesiastical empires into new local and regional ones. The continuing reform is to liberate the Christian Church and individual spiritual freedom from bondage to state authority.

Europe was best by aristocratic usurpation of Christian authority in Sweden as well as England and Russia. Spiritual liberation from Erastian criteria could also bring development antipathetic libertines without belief in anything besides cultural hedonism. Such godless behavior in society resulting in elastic rationalism brought the anti-Christs Stalin and Hitler to power with Stalin declaring churches 'not working anymore' as the religion of state atheism was compelled on the populace. Effectively worship of Uncle Joe became requisite for survival.

The state church of the tsars was the Orthodox sect of the Universal Christian Church. In the Ukraine the inter-tidal areas of political and sectarian conflict as well as the troubles of racism, culturalism and practical issues of food growing lands and security from invasion made for continuing contention for control. The Ukraine had Catholicism from Polish landlords, Orthodox from Russian and a synthetic Uniate Church comprised of both. Because of the association of religion under state authority, religious strife was implicit as it was for Cromwell, Milton and anti-Papist reactionaries, regicides of Charles the First and St. Bartholomew's Day massacres in Ireland and France unto the Briitish-Irish troubles of the 20^th century.

Conservative forces have tended to support the human characteristic of depleting and degrading the resources of foes; religious or political, and liberal forces have sought relief from such oppression. Of course there is a cyclical element to that. Christianity of the Lord is liberal yet with perennial moral values. Even so Conservative Christians defending doctrines and Church power and murdered hundreds of thousands of Christians much less godless atheist heretics. Protestants decried the faults of Catholicism yet even Protestant reformers supported the execution of fellow reformers with different doctrines. Human original sin corrupts all social establishments while the spirit of the Lord perpetually frees saved individuals from that bondage. One hopes that the Ukraine receives a new fellowship in the Spirit of the Lord.

It is difficult to imagine President Vladimir Putin as the Russian Pope leading the Orthodox Church as it is impossible to imagine President Barrack Obama as Pope of American Christians. Americans have a difficult time understanding European history or the practical political course of the historical political and ecclesiastical evolution of the worldly establishments. American neon-elites of the Eastern establishments have developed a convenient godless scientific elitism without comprehension of historical and cultural circumstance. Declaring themselves as infallible as any Pope ever has their authority runs toward spreading a gospel of godless rationalism that Frederick Nietzsche would have been comfortable with. They fail to understand the error of Stalinism and fail to appreciate the role of original sin in perpetually re-establish itself through state and operative corporate censorship, repression of free speech and opposition to political dissent. The will to totalize political power and negate democratic individual is an implicit characteristic of concentrated wealth and/or power. In the Ukraine the west as sought to exert its will to power so far as possible. Because of the contemporary criterion of atheist influence and evolution of reprobate and depraved social behavior it is unlikely that the Obama administration will be able to perceive then opportunity to work with President Putin to advance the cause of the separation of Church and state in Russian and the Ukraine.

The 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney declared Russia as America's number one existential foe. That's not too surprising since President Putin had banned Mormonism from Russia. Each leader sought to interfere in religious affairs; Romney as a Mormon priest effectively anathematized Russia while President Putin as the Eminence Gris Pope of Russia failed to see the value of establishing an extra-terrestrial religion that worshiped an oligarchy in the Kolob Star System in Russia. President Putin could renounce Russian Federation State control of religion and declare Universal tolerance for spiritual values throughout all of it's lands including anything it receives from a remorseful land-grabbing west in the Ukraine that could potentially decide to share.

Pyrrhic Victory in West's Land Grab of Formerly Russian Ukraine

The late Boris Yeltsin had dubious authority to give away the historically Russian Ukraine to independents. We are reminded of the deal Vladimir Illyich Lenin cut with the Kaiser in 1918 giving up the Ukraine to Germany in return for support in taking over Russia. Yeltsin might have expected support from the west. At the time he was not yet President of the Russian Federation, he was only President of the R.S.F.R., one of just 15 Soviet Republics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin
Yeltsin was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1990 and oversaw it's dissolution. It is difficult to say what kind of relationship Yeltsin had with Bill Clinton and the west. Perhaps they were soul brothers. In 1999 Yeltsin was 'found drunk in his underpants outside the White House'. Obviously Yeltsin power as the symbolic mirror of Yekaterinburg' termination of the Tsar/Soviet Union emerged from a stressful life in communist society trying to liberate the Russian people from Stalinism. It is worth recollecting that in a famous photo of the Bolshevik Revolutionary leaders just Stalin and Trotsky remained alive not long after Stalin took power. Trotsky of course and his family were murdered by Stalin's political rival liquidators later.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215101/Drunk-Boris-Yeltsin-outside-White-House-underpants-trying-hail-cab-wanted-pizza.html
When the Gorbachev-Yeltsin succession liberated Russia with the help of President Ronald Regan something of an historical mir4icle transpired. American airhead ideologues though saw it as an opportunity to plunder the world for a corrupt high-tech derivative and resources swindling, bank frauds and hostile takeover acquisitions. Corporatism ensued to gut America's development of democracy. Americans were left eventually holding the bag of 18 trillion dollars of public debt. high unemployment and emasculation of practical sovereignty. Investment occurred in China and Mexico and globalism replaced nationalism to the detriment of all except the top 5% of Americans.



At the end of the first world war an unwise armistice and peace placed high demands on Germany leading inevitably to the second world war. Subsequently America learned to be generous with it's peace terms in war. Germany was a good example as well as Japan-each nation prospered and became allies rather than subversive malcontents. The United States seems to have forgotten that lesson in the Ukraine.
President Gorbachev freely withdrew his forces from European nations occupied by the Soviets gained rolling up the Third Reich. It was the 50th anniversary of D-Day in fact, and it was historical grace that the transition occurred peacefully. Yet some viewed the liberation of Europe from Soviet communist totalitarianism as a surrender for Russia and a victory for capitalism. They consider it right to take everything possible from formerly communist countries and perpetrate a kind of forced reparations to Wall Street from the Russian Ukraine. In the long run that may be a Pyrrhic victory. In the meantime it is very disruptive economic policy for the entire world. Regressive and unjust at best that policy has potential for developing numerous worst case scenarios.

Trends in Post-Ideological Quantification

      The age of quantification could be regarded as coincident with the Anthropocene era-that of human caused mass extinction of species, yet also with the evolution of the age of reason morphing into the age of fracture and economic existentialism. Human beings with education have a marked tendency toward quantifying things formerly as individual and unique occurrences. Assuredly the ability to discern redness in particulars such as roses and automobiles generates the ability to extract the quality of redness for-itself and understand that any sort of object may be painted with it-even a town. The quantification of red in a nation, in the morning or evening sky, in the sea or in blood spilled upon wet sod of the Earth are no more than single instances of quantification. The human characteristic of quantification itself might be quantified in quantification studies.

Science means knowledge and quantification of existing things or object quantities measured entails quantification in a pure form. Abstract quantification of terms can be found in mathematics, logic and physics as well as in the liberal arts. For some the art of reason is a practice of rationalism. Rationalism itself though may be two-dimensional in a three-dimensional world at times forsaking intuition and faith for a finite means of adjudicating quantities. If Noah had no faith he might not have built an Ark, if Einstein did not trust his genius he might not have unified space-time conceptually speaking. Some scientists could not have faith that a 10-dimensional multi-verse might exist and would trust in relativistically shrank measuring yardsticks that the warped Universe is flat.

Faith is an essential requirement for belief in God. God that is not an ossified artifact or stone practico-inert sculpture is pure spirit transcending space-time and any given Universe in any possible multi-verse of n-dimensional attributes existing with physical components. Physical components are inevitably in thermodynamic motion flowing like a waterfall from a singularity or membrane through a marvelous and possibly mysterious network of causality. Causality and an entangled energy steady-state Universe with flowing space-time may be a concatenation of local and non-local fields with broken symmetries and isolated particle-waves. That steady-state of mass-energy Universe wearing down it's order with quantum structures comparable to standing waves, eddies and currents of fields, branes and quarks to return to a field of more basic unification and order might be though of as a multi-dimensional yo-yo flung out from a condition of perfect order at singularity that will return after a marvelous performance to The One. Human beings themselves existing in the field nexus quantify whatever they can in order to have greater understanding.

Martin Luther was credited by some as the forefather of modern rationalism for opposing the mysterium of the Catholic Church with its exclusive priesthood and exclusive control of the Bible the laity were forbidden to own or read in their own non-Latin language. Historians have pointed out though that Luther was a man of faith who would 'ten times have rejected reason in preference for faith'. Luther believed in the word of God expressed in the gospel message, and in the Lord Jesus Christ above the Bible. Rationalism in Germany was a stage in the progress of human society, yet rationalism with faith may become without reason as history experienced in the rise and execution of Nazi Germany and the bureaucrat banality of Heinrich Himmler.

Rationality without faith is like a computer operating system that it totalitarian in its quantifications. Moral judgments are basically meaningless to rational operating systems, the only ethical questions are those of hierarchialization and execution priorities. Faith though is something like a recognition of several operating systems as possible existing, even booted simultaneously onto a single computer with partitions to separate them and prevent conflicts of interest. The computer owner of faith knows that the uncertainty and implicit possibilities of the hardware allow many configurations-some good, some bad and some outright ugly, yet evolutionary possibilities that the computer designer allowed in the software. For a reasoning man or woman of faith universes and multi-verses are comparable to operating systems of physics with various configurations and protocols that are possibilities the designer permits. God is the omniscient designer.

In an age where some regard ideology as dead, quantification proceeds in high-speed Wall Street dark pool quantitative trading. Global businesses quantify and value anything, buying, selling and trading quantities. Ideology itself was a kind of reformation era political product of quantification as well as qualitative judgments about church, state, behavior of the priesthood, values of the Bible actual, theoretical and applied. The television series Cosmos noted the qualitative trashing of a few scientists by select members of the Catholic hierarchy-a periodically divided and even corrupt proprietary distracted clergy incidentally. One that vied for political control with kingdoms and was intolerant of political rivals and even scientists disloyal to the absolute power of thee presiding Pope of the day. Scientists sometimes fail to note that the Catholic Church produced most of the early scientists such as Copernicus, Newton and Mendel, that the Medici sponsored science and engineering research, or that Protestant reformers and others were slaughter by the tens and hundreds of thousands by the conservative catholic Church and that the loss of very few scientists was quantitatively very small. On the other hand, science invented most of the weapons of mass destruction existing today while faith produced very few.

Philosophers such as Sartre expressing an epistomologically singular perspective-even within a major work of dialectical analysis of the social order such as his tome 'The Critique of Dialectical Reason' and theologicans like Paul Tillich with an objective analysis of social collectives within an ontology with explicit empirical ideology may use a universal nominalism or contingent universalism alternatively for quantification and the paradigm of structural quantitative analysis remains intact.

Quantifying historical matters accurately is quite a bit more challenging than quantifying mass. Accuracy in history requires reading and understanding a vast amount of material in no particular order. To become too specialized means to become biased toward a particular point of view. Scientific quantification alternatively is simple and objectively verifiable, yet pure rationalism without faith tends to lack reason and moral judgment. It is as if a portion of the mind that is spirit is cut out and a degree of objectivity through faith omitted. Reason requires a metaphorical dash of quantum uncertainty as a component of thought that is reflective and contemplative. Inductive reasoning is as necessary as inductive reasoning in order for rationality to serve reason. Quantification of ideology, politics, economics and environments are intrinsic elements for to projects for building and shaping social development toward an optimal direction rather than dystopia.