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Luther’s Reformation sundered the unity of the Catholic Church forever, and can even be credited with starting the process of secularization in the West, as Catholicism lost its monopoly in large parts of Europe.
“Pervasive rationalistic, technical and bureaucratic ways of thinking have emptied life of meaning by destroying what Berger calls the ‘sacred canopy’ of meanings reflecting collective beliefs about life, death and the world in which we live. The resultant anomie, or loss of all bearings, the demise of any shared structure of values, leads to a sort of existential angst.”
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“of the sad signs of our times,” he wrote, “is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
― Fortitude: Resilience in the Age of Outrage
― Fortitude: Resilience in the Age of Outrage
“By the time I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog.”
― Red Cell
― Red Cell
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Bill’s 2025 Year in Books
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