Bruce Charlton's Notions

The Antichrist phenomenon is generally misunderstood - not least because, as preparation for 'his' coming, false understandings have...

Metaphysics refers to a person's ultimate beliefs - or more accurately his assumptions - about how reality is structured and works.  The...

One of the great contributions made by William Arkle to my own philosophy of living is to bring to the centre of concern, the question of wh...

My answer is that religions differ essentially in terms of what they believe happens after death.  (By 'death' I mean biological dea...

The non-Christians who are insightful enough to see the fake and lies of the mainstream System (the 'secular Right') are tying thems...

It seems to have been a constant factor of known history that particular living people have claimed to have some kind of direct and personal...

I accept the intuition of most young children and tribal peoples that reality is made of many Beings - thus I am a pluralist.  I therefore r...

Does your church have spiritual authority?  No. And it never will again. In 2020 the Christian churches of the world voluntarily, without ob...

  I first heard this aria sung, as above, by Luciano Pavarotti - and this is, for me, the greatest performance overall. But the role was cle...

Pragmatic appeasement is a 'managerial' or bureaucratic mode of thinking that has spread into mass interpersonal discourse.  It acce...

Unfinished Tales is probably my very favourite among the many wonderful books collecting his unpublished father's works that Christophe...

Most people in the world seem to be materialists who deny-by-assumption the reality of the spiritual realm. By which I mean they assume the ...

Things began with chaos, among-which were Beings . Beings are self-sustaining - from Beings come the energies that shape chaos into creation...

It is my impression that there is a very long tradition of exaggerating without restraint the sufferings of Jesus, compared with how they a...

In these End Times, it is as if Christians have superpowers! What do I mean? Well, firstly I don't mean anything like the power to perf...

There are only two coherent ways of regarding God.  Either as someone who is easy to know; exactly as easy to know as knowing your parents. ...

How clever are the Global Establishment? It is an important question.  One answer is ' They are cleverer than the masses - and that is ...

I am fascinated by the descriptions of Tolkien's Numenoran Men; and how one of their gifts was to know when it was that they should die....

Quite a lot of self-identified Christians seem to believe that their faith requires them to live by the assumption that The Authorities (how...

What passes for 'dissent' in the modern leftist-bureaucratic mass media/ government/ corporate world is what might be called 'se...

The usual understanding of Christians is that sin is moral transgression against God's law; and that this leads to the just punishment o...