tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8661792044009878053..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: God the Great Exam Proctor in the SkyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-71070661350303113712009-03-31T11:26:00.000-04:002009-03-31T11:26:00.000-04:00This is a great reflection. I have to say that if...This is a great reflection. I have to say that if I were seeking, the conservatives and their "are you as holy as I am?" tests would be an enormous turn-off. But I guess they will be happy if their "church" is a lot smaller, but very pure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-48150277246133752182009-03-31T09:49:00.000-04:002009-03-31T09:49:00.000-04:00What Rick+ said!What Rick+ said!Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-10132618762471433152009-03-31T09:48:00.000-04:002009-03-31T09:48:00.000-04:00Still around in certain Theologies, who are less T...Still around in certain Theologies, who are less Theologies than some believe...Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-25489604799183749302009-03-31T09:47:00.000-04:002009-03-31T09:47:00.000-04:00"The classical culture that dominated the world at..."The classical culture that dominated the world at the beginnings of Christianity had no hope at all to offer, just the stoic command to be and act heroically."<BR/><BR/>It was the teaching of the Vale of Tears and the Creation as a Prison for the Body. <BR/><BR/>This eventually lead (by way of Indian Philosophy) to the Neo Platonist concept of an ever progressin emmanation from subtle/refined/etherical to gross/ugly/BAD.<BR/><BR/>In one word Karma-Mocksha.Göran Koch-Swahnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00925549945659350649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-22957646679562599882009-03-30T16:36:00.000-04:002009-03-30T16:36:00.000-04:00Amen, Doug!I'm put in the mind of what's been said...Amen, Doug!<BR/><BR/>I'm put in the mind of what's been said about the Gospel of John (FWIW, my least favorite Gospel--- w/ my favorite line of Scripture, 16:33): the reason there's no "Take, Eat" in John's Last Supper, is that the WHOLE THING is <I>communion</I>.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the reason that none of Mark's kids mentioned "Gee' zus", is that their WHOLE EXPERIENCE of Church is Jesus? (Well, that's my hope, and I'm stickin' to it! ;-p)JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-5228187049511537612009-03-30T13:10:00.000-04:002009-03-30T13:10:00.000-04:00I've thought much the same myself. I get very tire...I've thought much the same myself. I get very tired of people complaining that the Episcopal Church is a "club." Well, what a wonderful club. Most of us want it to be a big open welcoming club. As opposed to being a small sect with pure doctrine and all of the rest of the crap that many of us escaped to get here.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01945343859290558131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-69511745249562448022009-03-30T01:41:00.000-04:002009-03-30T01:41:00.000-04:00I think you do theology very well, Doug.I think you do theology very well, Doug.Rick+https://www.blogger.com/profile/03322574092020268536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-87717920536727543622009-03-29T21:49:00.000-04:002009-03-29T21:49:00.000-04:00When it comes to kids, the only thing we should wo...When it comes to kids, the only thing we should worry about is what we are responsible for, their welfare. Their health and safety is our job and our responsibility as adults. <BR/>As to what they will believe or not, they will come to faith (or not) the same way we all did, blundering through life and ending up there -- or not. Either way, we should trust God enough to leave such matters in His hands and in theirs. God loves them and looks after them at least as much as we do, and always will no matter what.<BR/><BR/>The older I get -- and the more I teach -- the more I come to agree with old Aristotle: virtue cannot be taught, it can only be learned.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-89647135713967365432009-03-29T21:13:00.000-04:002009-03-29T21:13:00.000-04:00Do you realize the very mindset of a person who wo...Do you realize the very mindset of a person who would ¨project¨ that the videos of these kids didn´t qualify them for ENOUGH CHRIST LOVING?<BR/><BR/>Honestly, I´m not just being angry...I´ve know for many years, because I can read and still hear words (sometimes even in more than one language) that there are many very SICK PEOPLE around us. No, one may not notice them wandering up and down 5th Avenue or elsewhere but they are there (just as sure as there are also LGBT people walking up and down 5th Avenue mostly unnoticed) and the compare, they judge, they hate but mostly they fear...they are fearing themselves into a corner (even though the cluster to support one another) where they will not be able to escape from...some of these folks are going insane (right in front of us, on television too) at The Anglican Communion (Uganda and Nigeria come to mind).<BR/><BR/>We must be aware and we must NOT make excuses for those who do harm to other (or would in a flash)...no matter what relgious extremism they are advocating again today we must not keep cutting them ¨slack.¨Leonardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667415590825321701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-22885443765640383892009-03-29T19:56:00.000-04:002009-03-29T19:56:00.000-04:00This is damn good Doug. You should send it in to E...This is damn good Doug. You should send it in to Episcopal Life for publication. And, yes, Jesus did not want more religion and more hurdles, just love.<BR/><BR/>God bless you.it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.com