tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post3974094279745910780..comments2023-06-08T03:54:33.927-07:00Comments on Serpentis Sacra: Illiteracy and the ChurchErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15764883285037843662noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-37399975968425661712009-05-16T18:47:00.000-07:002009-05-16T18:47:00.000-07:00(Belated responses are my style.) I don't propose...(Belated responses are my style.) I don't propose any particular alternative educational model. Private and parochial schools, autodidaction, Sudbury and Montessori schools, tutors, apprenticeships, losing oneself on Wikipedia--all these are valid methods good for some things and not for others. For my own kids I'd send them to a Sudbury school, then try something else if they failed to prosper.Noah Luckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09711014458632779021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-31737287732506945272009-05-06T14:01:00.000-07:002009-05-06T14:01:00.000-07:00Hi Joseph, thanks for stopping by!
I appreciate y...Hi Joseph, thanks for stopping by!<br /><br />I appreciate your comments, and I absolutely agree. The response to a tidal wave of postmodernism and relativism isn't more postmodernism and relativism. It must be an intelligent and articulate, yet loving and firm response which draws on the theology of the ages.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15764883285037843662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-72840577459309056622009-05-06T08:09:00.000-07:002009-05-06T08:09:00.000-07:00was camus technically an athiest? seems i remembe...was camus technically an athiest? seems i remember reading that he was unable to take the final "leap of faith," but had hope he was wrong...<br /><br />the american landscape is historically anti-intellectual, and the rise of mass media has made it even more so. why read seriously when one can watch House of Love on VH1 and be titillated? look around us: we no longer have giants of american literature who are actors in the public square, helping form debate on the issues of the day. solzhenitsyn, sontag, buckley (at his prime), vidal, etc., would be marginal, at best, today. instead we have the osteens and oprahs who dumb down everything in american culture, including religion. what is the quote from niebuhr? "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" something like that. this is why it is vital for traditional anglicans, roman catholics, and orthodox to continue to express the hard truth about salvation, sin, holy mystery.Josephhttp://www.stjohnocachurch.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-11707685505411705782009-05-03T02:24:00.000-07:002009-05-03T02:24:00.000-07:00BAS: Your words are welcome to the weary! How of...BAS: Your words are welcome to the weary! How often we forget to let God be God. All we can do is our part, and leave the rest to him.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15764883285037843662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-60526853724045837412009-05-02T14:40:00.000-07:002009-05-02T14:40:00.000-07:00Good point: that the god Dawkins et al reject is n...Good point: that the god Dawkins et al reject is no more the Christian God than the god Phelps et al worship. The only way we can address this is to pray, worship, read, and "keep the faith." Belligerent falsehood is never remedied by trying to correct it, but by quietly and simply embodying Truth. <br /><br />But I think it's important to remember that this is not a battle we must win; the victory is already won! What is Jesus trying to teach us in this current struggle? I don't know, but it seems like one of the lessons must surely be humility in realizing that we no longer run the world, and that we can't control the public perception of our message either.<br /><br />Faith doesn't have answers though, and it can't if it is to remain faith. (Indeed, I think some of the problems we've gotten ourselves into have arisen because we behave as if we have more answers than we actually do.) We do not believe because we have the answers, we believe because our hearts have been stirred to love by him who loved us first. Faith is not the careful distribution of answers, but rather living in hope that one day faith (and sacraments as well as science!) will cease, and Love will be all that remains.<br /><br />While we remain this side of time, however, it is reassuring to remember that the Church belongs to Christ; and the gates of Hell (including its legions of violent ignorance) shall never prevail against it.BASnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-71311307586191275972009-04-30T10:01:00.000-07:002009-04-30T10:01:00.000-07:00Funny, ex_fide, I was going to suggest you get to ...Funny, ex_fide, I was going to suggest you get to know eric better. Bright guys both of you.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08370942286654104818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-67655717159045528272009-04-30T05:17:00.001-07:002009-04-30T05:17:00.001-07:00*the spirit*the spiritTchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13388784325608457371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-71847929305189552382009-04-30T05:17:00.000-07:002009-04-30T05:17:00.000-07:00Eric, agreed. But perhaps we can have spirit of Bo...Eric, agreed. But perhaps we can have spirit of Borg and Crossan without the tie-dye and hemp.Tchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13388784325608457371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-72567491611290438712009-04-30T00:42:00.000-07:002009-04-30T00:42:00.000-07:00What to do? The answer seems fairly clear. A fai...What to do? The answer seems fairly clear. A faith made for humanity should have answers available at all levels of understanding, whether for the scholar, the mature layperson, the childish adult, or the actual child.<br /><br />I tend to think of childish adults as a fairly new category of persons who have been infantilized by government schools where, among other obstacles to their maturity, they chiefly acquired distaste for education. The way to restore a right order is to abolish government schools; the way to minister to its victims is to use art (and liturgy!) to restore a sense of wonder about the topic to be learned.Noah Luckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09711014458632779021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-67342309856482239982009-04-29T23:47:00.000-07:002009-04-29T23:47:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.ex_fidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11966214834164246079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6669894630443780360.post-34336551139022763272009-04-29T17:01:00.000-07:002009-04-29T17:01:00.000-07:00Most social-scientific definitions of "religion" a...Most social-scientific definitions of "religion" apply to atheist groups, especially the modern Hitchens (et al) fanatics. <br /><br />How to fix it? I don't know. I don't know if it's fixable. But perhaps it's time for another Jesus Movement.Tchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13388784325608457371noreply@blogger.com