tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79443171113639224112024-03-13T06:50:29.356-07:00The Ontological LapsometerJulianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-28692272912910358182015-10-27T11:44:00.004-07:002015-11-11T13:32:28.380-08:00The New Religion Haiku<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f4549; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
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for what reason might consider. This is how science has been lost.</div>
Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-27911133704734002602015-08-02T08:02:00.002-07:002015-08-03T20:24:17.332-07:00Presumption of Shared Goals...Or, the Ridiculous-ness of an Auto-reply From an Elected Official Who Knows That You Know That He Knows He is Full of it...<div id="yiv0178485263letter_content" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; width: 638px;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I believe Hannah Arendt referred to it as the "banality of evil." </span><br />
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Thank you for contacting me to share your views on abortion. I do appreciate hearing from you.<br />
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I support the right of women to make their own health and reproductive decisions. For that reason, I oppose efforts to weaken the basic holding of <em>Roe v. Wade</em>.</div>
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We all share the goal of reducing unwanted pregnancies and abortions. The right way to do this is through education and access to health care and contraception rather than by restricting or criminalizing women's reproductive decisions. Please know that I respect the deeply held beliefs of Americans on both sides of the issue, and I will keep your thoughts in mind. </div>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-12440159142430871492015-08-02T07:11:00.001-07:002015-08-30T20:09:43.302-07:00Illiberal LiberalismOr, "Why the Totalitarians of Thought are Blind to Their Own Illiberalism and Why Their Tactics Will Cultivate an Increasing Atmosphere of Violence Which is the Very Problem They Purport to Avoid."<br />
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George Will <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/childishness-on-campus/2015/05/29/dba1fac0-0562-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html" target="_blank">describes</a> the campus atmosphere of in which suppression of free inquiry and open expression is the norm...fostered by both faculty and students but apparently a trait practiced more openly on behalf of liberalism, (ironically).<br />
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Combox replies as usual are useless and demoralizing...consisting only of either disagreement based on ad hominem or denial that suppression is problematic. Lord have mercy if we actually have to consider the issue. The reader is trained to obsfucate first.<br />
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However I think Will's article doesn't go quite far enough...it superficially blames the left, yet neglects to reach the substance of the problem. It is merely an anecdotal commentary that comes off as moralistic to the people he would seek to correct.<br />
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The problem is philosophical...and it is a philosophical error that is taught..explicitly. We have here a problem of education. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Starttford Caldecott once observed that the <b>"widespread belief that there is no objective truth no 'true' way of considering the world and its history, only a pluralityof subjective points of view, each view being of equal value and deserving equal respect. Of course, there are limits to the views that can be given respect, and these limits are supposed to exclude any perspective that might give rise to violent behavior, (such as Nazism or [extreme] Islamism). Ironically, since our society has given up the notion of objective truth, these undesirable opinions cannot be engaged rationally. Instead they must simply be suppressed with more or less subtle violence - violence that often feeds grievances of the suppressed community." </b><br />
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I remember a professor in college glibly remarking that "they don't pay me to come up with answers here, just questions." My thought was, and still is, "fair enough I suppose, but where in the world can a man go if he wants some answers? Apparently, not most American colleges." It is a fine thing to develop a question well. Answers are only as good as the question asked. However, it is an entirely different sort of totalitarianism to pronounce or even infer that there are no answers as seems to be the dictate of (il)Liberalism. Suppressing the wrong kind of questions or the wrong kind of question leads to a natural frustration at best. At worst, as Caldecott shows, it can actually perpetuate the very violence or restriction of freedoms that our present Liberalism now fears. We have warped the objective and the subjective and there is a logic that follows. In making the subjective an absolute we still cannot avoid the realization of an actual objective end. The result is that rather than accomplishing some open and free perpetual subjectivism we bring about an absolute end in which force and not freedom presides.<br />
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The antidote to the sort of suppression is not more suppression but the truth revealed in love. Clearly, we cannot merely reply by trying to shout down or shut down those who would oppose our ideas.<br />
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Enter Thomas Aquinas and the Summa. The question under consideration is, "Well what if I'm wrong, what exactly are the implications?" Thomas will first exhaustively present the best possible opposing argument for his own position. As <a href="http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/05/seeing-both-sides-st-thomas-aquinas.html" target="_blank">Joseph Sobran once wrote</a>, Aquinas "isn’t merely charitable to his opponents; he is always on his
opponent’s side.That is, he wants to confront opposing arguments at
their best, even if he has to reformulate them himself and make them
purer, stronger, and more precise than their advocates have done. <span style="text-align: justify;">Aquinas has the rare quality of wanting
to know all that can possibly be said for the other side. He understands
that you can’t find good answers without good questions. The human mind
needs both."</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">In a sense Thomas shows us that we oppose the enemies of truth and their ideas by befriending them. This is no sly act of espionage. This is simple a desire to be found in... what is. </span><br />
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What is needed is the both/and of Catholic truth, (the word "catholic" simply means universal after all). The antidote of radical subjectivism is not an equal and opposite force of radical objectivism. We must see the problem of suppressed inquiry in its entirety as a privation of both good questions and good answers. We must respond by asking better question and not being satisfied with insufficient answers. </div>
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George Will observes the problem on college campuses. He fails to notice that its logic follows a trajectory of ever increasing use of force. Violence begets violence. Only genuine love of truth can break through. </div>
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<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-91804294139709932902015-04-04T12:46:00.000-07:002015-04-04T12:46:16.191-07:00A Brief Theology of History, (or History as the Event of Love)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> The whole of history is
salvation history. To look at the span of time with the eyes of Christian faith
is to have a sense of the unfolding of God’s self-revelatory act in the reality
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In considering the meaning of history, it is vital to begin first
by articulating the way in which we ought to look at history. How are we to
understand the causes of history? In a similar manner to Cardinal Ratzinger’s
1998 Erasmus Lecture in New York City in which he articulated the shortcomings
of approaching scripture with an exclusively historical-critical methodology,
we ought to also be wary of the shortcomings of exclusively employing the
historical-critical method in regards to history. The common point in both
fields is that, while positivist methods may have something to contribute, we
should be careful not to begin our search for understanding with a self-limiting
notion of cause and meaning. If we seek to know the whole of something we need
to consider it in its totality and to consider as a whole. History must also be
understood not just as a series of efficient or material causes, but must also
be considered as having formal and even a final cause.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If this approach strongly infers an Aristotelian bias, it
might seem to imply that the Christian meaning of history is relegated to a
dependence on Greek or Scholastic thought, and would therefore render itself
incomprehensible for anything that is not pre-Modern. Yet as Jean Daniélou
observes in “The Lord of History,” the early Church, particularly in the
assertion of Ex Nihilo, was in direct conflict with the contemporary Greek
thought of that period. For the Greeks, nothing was truly original while the Christian
sense of history pivoted on the “absolute significance of individual events.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
It was not only the Greeks who were challenged by this radical reading of
history. Even the wisdom of Solomon cried out, “meaningless, meaningless, all
is meaningless” and surmised that there was “nothing new under the sun.” The uniqueness
of Christ as the son of Man and son of God was not even fully anticipated by
the Hebrew people of covenantal promise. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Hebrew history was not opposed to novelty; however
the fixation was centered on destiny and later, in the prophets, this sense of
destiny began to take on an eschatological element. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Historical events could be held up in faith as
signposts of covenantal promise. But Christian history brought new meaning to
these events beginning with the surprise of the Messiah as Incarnate God.
Christ as creator, who knew creation from its inception before all history, was
also a real and particular singularity in history. In this sense, Christ’s
originality, changed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">particularity</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">itself</i> so that the each new “thing under
the sun” was in fact, authentically <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the early Christians, the meaning of the
Hebrew fathers and the prophets was immediately opened up to them on the road
to Emmaus.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Christian history was revealed as history that progressed from beginning to beginning
in a movement of types. The “Annunciation of Mary, belongs to a series of
annunciations” in history, but it is the types as real standing events that
brings intelligibility to their succession as a whole history.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Christ as a particularity, upheld particularity itself in a manner that
presented the newness of each event as authentically new. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If Christian history thwarts the constraints of ancient
thought, it continues to do so in Modernity. The Church reads the time after
the Resurrection in the context of the Ascension and the Pentecost and Christ’s
commission to carry forward the progress of ecclesial mission “to the end of
the Age.” Daniélou goes on to articulate that Christian progress ought not to
be misconceived in Darwinian or Marxist terms. Here also, it is vital to move
beyond a utilitarian sensibility of time and consider that history’s meaning,
as both eschatological and teleological, is not only moving towards an end but
is a history already having an end. The eschatological informs the meaning of
the Hebrew past as well as the present course of Christian progress. “That
which is beyond all progress is here and now in Christ” and in this sense we see
Christ as transcending the span of the now and not yet.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Christ’s incarnate entrance into history is one of fulfillment and
accomplishing of end. Yet, the reality of progress and fulfillment quickly
raises the question of struggle and particularly, a seemingly prolonged
struggle, as was noted even in the early Church by Origin who wrote of the earthly
experience of believers “who do not seem to be resurrected or in heaven.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Daniélou draws on the illustration of shadows and the sense of visual
reflections in St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians and articulates that in the
same sense that Mary’s real annunciation was foreshadowed by earlier Old
Testament annunciations, we also move from shadow to shadow. Man is no longer
in the shadow of the Law but is now moving under the supreme shadow of the
reality in history of Christ’s life, death and resurrection. The Church moves
in this eschatological journey of progress, nourished and encouraged with the
visible and real graces of sacramental gifts. Even with these graces, the
Christian meaning of history would still seem to consist of a real tension in
which, “not yet” seems to always be more evasive than the ever present “now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As noted above, even King Solomon in Ecclesiastes, struggles
to hold on to the promise made to the sons of Abraham and cling to God’s
goodness, power and providence in times of turmoil. This tension is real but it
is vital once again to insist on a sense of origin as not being tethered to a
positivist placement of an event arranged along a linear course marked by “X.” Neither
is the Christian origin a mere metaphor. We would not want to rationalize away
the reality that the course of Christian progress can only be to do as Christ
directed and “take up one’s cross.” The cross is pivotal to the original
Christian event. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his essay, “Risen
Time” José Granodos articulates the sense in which origin is best understood as
an inaugural event that is continually present across all of history. It is
Easter, as the new origin of history, in which Christ, as fully man and fully
God, opens up a new beginning for history as the reality of incarnation. At
Easter, history becomes the place in which God pours out his dramatic self-revelation
by opening up “the core of the divine essense” in Christ’s “eternal
preexistence.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Through this demonstration of love of the Father for the son in history,
history becomes the realization for man of the eternal outpouring of God as
communion of divine persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Original”
takes on an entirely new meaning in Christ’s demonstration of his own eternal
nature. In his incarnation as man, yet one who is begotten and not made, the
origin of history becomes an eternal moment extending across the past, present
and future. Emmanuel Lévinas’ observes that the “resurrection is the principle
event of time” and this observation is enhanced with Granados’ illustration of
resurrection as the cornerstone of history and the manner in which a
cornerstone is placed not within the beginning but the center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“All the forces of the arch converge towards
the center.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Because the fatherhood of God is shown to be eternal in the Son as truly divine
and eternal, God’s fatherhood is also eternal, reaching across the span of
history. “At Easter the history of the world comes into it’s meaning because it
is included in the dynamism of love between Father and Son that constitutes
God’s deepest mystery.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The original meaning of the whole of history and all of history is love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Solomon’s
anguish is not in vain because his role, particularly his role as overseer in
the construction of the temple, as well as the role of all in Israel’s line, is
vital for the bringing forward in time as well as the interpretation of
Easter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this we can say with complete
confidence that it could never be the case that Solomon is a mere pawn who is
only to be utilized in the construct of an image in the course of deterministic
events, which might easily as well be considered as orchestrated by “the fates.”
Rather, in a real and vital way, Solomon as a particular man in his particular
place in history is a participant in the revelation of Christ. The son’s path
to the father is man. Christ as the Son of God and the Son of Man reveals
Himself as one who is coming from and going to the Father. The origin and the
destiny of man is Fatherly love. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Son revealed as eternally Son also reveals the Father
as eternally Father. With this revelation comes an affirmation of the eternal
goodness of God emanating not only in one particular moment of history, but
across all of history.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Instead of a history in which all is meaningless, the incarnation now brings a
fulfillment to meaning itself. It is not simply that there is a world of
particular but separate extrinsic meanings. Even the truth of things as things,
(their facticity), bears witness to a cohesion of truth across the span of
reality. As God enters into history, this span of true events is shown to be
not only true, but also good. The resurrection is the affirmation that God is
both good and that He is omnipotent.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
In the incarnation of Christ who is God and man, we encounter this expansive meaning
as not merely a concept but a concrete reality. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If the unfolding of history is the self-revelation of God
as community of persons, this is a communion that spans across the whole of history.
In history, God as one who loves the Son <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">totally</i>,
gives even his Fatherhood as something to be shared with the Son. This
Fatherhood is given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">totally</i> as the
Son “reveals the fullness of fatherhood in his ability to become the source of
life without having to recede.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Christ has given Himself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">totally</i> to the
Father, who gives Himself <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">totally</i> to
the Son and the Spirit proceeds in this Trinitarian act of gift as fruit. History
as the landscape of God’s generosity also opens a sense of the nature of time
unfolding in a movement towards the future as further emanation of gift. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In fact we can see fruitfulness as rising in the heart of
the Church as she bears witness to deepening sense of Trinitarian love. As
Christianity moves across the past two millennia Scholasticism has taken up the
Greek notions of act and potency and articulated the sense in which God is pure
act (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actus purus</i>). D.L. Schindler describes
how the notion of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">actus purus</i> is
enriched “by expanding it, from within a Trinitarian perspective, to include
passivity.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The divine son has shown us that the pure act of God does not preclude
receptivity. Time as changing bears the mark of potency and passivity but God has
entered into “finite time…in order to provide an image of his infinite time.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Trinitarian act as giving and receiving is one that is fruitful and creative. The
future is a future in which the Spirit as revealer is also the Spirit of
fruitfulness. Implicit in the incarnation is the real manner in which creation
has been literally impregnated by the Spirit with the Fruit who is God. The
Church as Bride is one who also participates in history in a receptivity that
is intrinsic to act and acting out in time of God’s love. There is still the
sense of now and not yet as the Church looks forward to the second coming of
Christ in the culmination of History. But the witness of history is that this
waiting is a time of bringing forth fruit as the Spirit and the Bride say come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lord of History” (London: Longmans, Green and Co Ltd, 1958). p.4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7944317111363922411#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 8.0pt;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 8.0pt;"> Schindler. D.L. “Heart
of the World, Center of the Church: Communio Ecclesiology and Liberal Culture”,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time in Eternity, Eternity in Time: On
the Contemplative-Active Life</i>. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co.
1996) p.226<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-25196883440926823342015-03-05T12:51:00.003-08:002015-08-02T07:07:34.236-07:00The New Old Radicals...<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I blazed through </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Radical-Young-Reckless-Journey/dp/0718031237" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">“Runaway Radical”</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> last weekend. I knocked
it out in a few hours which I don't often do. It’s the story of a kid who buys into the
gospel message 100% and sets out to throw himself entirely into the call of the
Great Commission, (as it is conceived by Evangelicalism anyway). He proceeded to slam directly into a wall of disappointment, letdown and personal betrayal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a lot of ways, this kid’s story and my own story overlap
quite a bit. In fact, I had to put the book down at one point and go look up an
old journal entry from over ten years ago. There are a couple of scenes in which Jonathan Hollingsworth, the young protagonist of the story, has a series of conversations dealing with various people regarding a mission to Africa gone badly. The words in my journal entry were nearly identical to some of these exchanges that he relates. I also had a very similar
conversation with my old pastor after a ministry experience that… did not meet
expectations. In fact, some of the lines in the book...verbatim. Still, I don't think I got steamrolled in quite the same way. I actually never had any real hard feelings anyway. I knew the score and wasn't caught by surprise in quite the same way. In any case, reading the book was a bit of a flash back from ten
years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story also details a post-letdown encounter with another young zealous
ministry-man who is fired up and ready to turn the screws of conviction on any
one within reach. This was the one part of the book that was actually kind of a disappointment for me. It is told in the manner of Chaucer satirizing his debtors complete with details of glassy eyed sneering taking place. I felt kind of bad for the young dumb drunk youth pastor who was the designated bad-guy in this narrative. Was he an ass? Of course. Still, it was sort of harsh to frame the moment in print as a permanent memorial of how to over-shoot your zeal. To anyone in this youth pastor's circle of friends, the identity of the prime offender is not going to be a real mystery. Whatever. We've all said dumb stuff in our 20s. Who am I to cast stones? To that young dummy, let me tell you kid, I've done worse friend. Anyway, what the Hollingsworths do illustrate is that at some point it is
pretty apparent that the narrative of a particularly Americanized Christian
witness gets played out to the point that it is actually a bit of a cliché. Real
men love Jesus. Hmmm...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why? Why does this nonsense go on? Legalism is the answer offered up by the young protagonist.
That is a word only used by a particular set of Christians so it may or may not make sense to the reader, (depending on your background). But yes, perhaps legalism is part
of it. But there is something deeper going on here. It can’t happen that so
many people share a common pathology without having some implicit central idea
in common. There is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some</i> philosophy
or theology at work here. People have all sorts of variables in their wrongdoing.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Missions oriented evangelical churches
often talk in great deal about how their theology is not central to who they are as a people of faith, (which makes no sense really). Rather, they assert that their theology is merely
a peripheral accessory that is employed only insofar as it is helpful. I’m not buying. They <i>do</i> have
a theology and it <i>is</i> solidly fixed. Furthermore, it is operative in every aspect of their lives. Heck, not having a theology is a theological position. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So...we love Jesus. We want to give Him everything. The evangelical missions
endeavor seems so noble. What could go wrong? Why is this not enough? I can even
say that in my case, I think my former pastor had the best intentions, (at least in our particular
encounter). In fact, I know he did. But what was he seeing in the mission that I was
missing? Or, what was I seeing about the mission that he was missing? Or is it
that the theology of mission that he taught wasn’t big enough?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone has a philosophy. I figured that you can go on
being a bad philosopher with a bad theology or you can find out what you really
believe and why. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which leads me to what I see as the truly radical element of
“Runaway Radical.” It is not only the account of the “office interview” that resonated
with me. Jonathan’s story is not my story. In my particular story, I was at a different place in life
when things came to a head with evangelical ministry. The circumstances were
different as well. Neither was I ever thrown under the bus in quite the same way. I experienced betrayal but it wasn't quite so bald face. Furthermore, I had one thing this young kid seemed to have been missing. I had an older, experienced friend who had also, as a young man, thrown himself headlong into the Evangelical endeavor. This man was a close mentor in my life. He was still very much involved in ministry when I was young but he was frank about the bullshit and he offered me invaluable input on how to avoid really stepping into it. Nonetheless, as far as Jonathan's account reads, our experiences do seem to come to much the same
end. My journal entries from this period of life repeatedly hinged on the
following questions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Reality of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem of pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nature of God as not only love, but One who loves personally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The radical questions are the universal questions. Not just for Christians either. Disappointment forces these questions to the surface, but they ARE universal question. These are
the questions that matter because they matter for all of us. Radical questions in fact, demand a theology because
a philosophy will come up just short. It would have to be a theology that is so
expansive as to be universal. It would have to be a radicalism resonating for
both kings and subjects, intellectuals and laymen. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would propose that Christianity is second to none in its capacity to deal with these questions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The radical is not realized in Kerouac’s “On the Road.” In American that story keeps getting dressed up in evangelical clothes and retold as some sort of band of gypsies missionary work akin to how we imagine, (badly I might add), the early Church...that narrative is just ill-formed on so many levels. The Jesus Movement was cooking it up in the 70's and their kids are spinning it out now as the Emergent Movement, (or whatever anti-label they are using now), of the early 21st century. Please. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In any case, Walker
Percy’s “The Last Gentlemen” shows us that this sort of American radicalism was already played out and empty as early as the 1960’s. By the late 60's that sort of radicalism had been domesticated as a phony marketing gimmick. For Percy, the real radical is the man who
knows his place in the world of love and dirt and is consumed by the sacramental. Incidentally, this was in all of Percy's work. He was saying so as early as "The Moviegoer." Anyway...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is not to reject the radical. God please that we be radically moved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the radicalism that matters isn’t in the staying or the going, in the not-doing or the doing. In an anti-culture of consumerist placeless-ness
and living emptied of content the real radicalism is in Being. The portal to
Being is the radical questions. To genuinely ask is to believe. The radical question is an act of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the infinite could suffice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We should never let anyone tells us that maturity of faith
means an end to questions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, deepening of faith means that the questions will
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like all men before me and all the men who will follow me, we come to THE Radical Question and find that only the infinite will suffice.</span><br />
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<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-57288981868273603342015-01-02T09:19:00.003-08:002015-01-06T15:50:37.867-08:00Educating in STEM Towards the Transcendentals.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/29/were-way-too-obsessed-with-pushing-science-and-math-on-our-kids/" target="_blank">The Washington Post has an essay</a> that considers the heavy emphasis on STEM in education and poses the following question:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"What was the purpose of everything if it all came down to mechanical interactions of particles and cells - what was the point of living, of doing anything at all?"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Eckart
has gone right to the heart of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">We
go about breaking things down into mere quantities, jamming them into quantifiable
categories and simultaneously we annihilate any sense of wholeness or holistic quality.
Under the terms of this sort of pseudo-scientific dogma, no one can say
what anything is. She is right…why do science in the first place?</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Modern
science needs the humanities in order to recover itself. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">I
would suggest three sources for recovering a sense in which </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><o:p></o:p></span>education in STEM and otherwise is rooted in something truer and deeper.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1.)
Move out from within the heart of the Church. Education of the whole person,
inquiry, fullness of realization and revelation is of course, (and always
has been), the objective of the Christian endeavor...helping to reveal the
world and particularly, revealing man. We need to read and re-read Guadium
et Spes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">"</span>The truth is that only in the mystery of the
incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light. For Adam, the first man,
was a figure of Him Who was to come,(20) namely Christ the Lord. <b>Christ, the
final Adam</b>, by the revelation of the mystery of the Father and His love, <b>fully
reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme calling clear</b>. It is not
surprising, then, that in Him all the aforementioned truths find their root and
attain their crown." - <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html" target="_blank">GS 22</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Guadium et Spes is
huge!!! We cannot read and re-read this one to much. Christ reveals man to himself. This is where education begins and where it aims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2.) We need to
educate so as to form people who are lovers of wisdom. This effort has been
taken up elsewhere. New times call for new measures. We don't need to repeat or
duplicate exactly what has come before. That would never work anyway. However,
we can certainly glean some good ideas and recover some of the same
sensibilities that have preceded us. <a href="http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=24-05-021-v" target="_blank">Anthony Ensolen has a terrific essay on acollege program that taught the humanities with a sense of wonder and spurredyoung people to an untold number of vocations</a>, (religious and otherwise). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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would do well to read Wendell Berry and his thoughts on modern education. He is
sometimes a bit polemic but I think his clarity of vision and his ability to
articulate a sense of love for the world, and education as oriented towards the
beautiful, the true and the good is vital. His short book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Life-Miracle-Against-Modern-Superstition/dp/1582431418/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420213265&sr=8-1&keywords=Life+is+a+Miracle" target="_blank">"Life is a Miracle"</a> is a great place to start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we want instead is to recover STEM, not as a means towards further
consolidation of wealth, advancement of oligarchy and the reduction of vocation as
a joyless existence of slogging it out in the technocracy. Instead we would
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DNA's survival of space travel hit the news this week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My initial thoughts were sort of, "so DNA can survive entry into Earth's atmosphere...its totally feasible I suppose that life on earth originated from aliens from another galaxy, just like Battlestar Galactica.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cool.<br />Of course that still leaves the problem of origin with regards to that life, but I guess this at least kicks the can down the road a bit, huh?" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not even.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"sonofEinstein" has a great reply to Scientific American's story on "<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-can-survive-reentry-from-space/#comment-7EABCA44-0235-4519-B00D4607A09CD9B0" target="_blank">DNA Surviving Entry from Space</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">What a piece of nonsense "science". This from a mere 13 minutes in flight?? The problem is that 98% of all of the meteors that have hit Earth, according to NASA have originated in the asteroid belt and are of the original materials that built the Earth. At the average speed of a meteor, it would take about a year to reach Earth. This would mean traveling through space where the temperature is about 10 degrees Kelvin. Since all life has to have carbon and oxygen to survive, this would mean it would be frozen before it reached the atmosphere of Earth. That is when it hits the Van Allen Belts where the temperatures rise rapidly to 1,923 degrees Kelvin. So could DNA have survived THESE temperatures? Not like! Finally it would have had to survive the impact of actually crashing onto the surface of Earth, whether land or sea doesn't make a difference to the impact. Finally, we have NEVER found ANY evidence of life anywhere on any of the asteroids, including Vesta from which most of the meteors have come, and has been visited by the Dawn space probe in July 2011. For Life to have come on a comet, it would have to have been from the asteroid belt, which means that there would have to have been Life there some 4.54 billion years ago when they were formed at the same time as Earth. That leaves the prospect of DNA or some form of Life coming on board a meteor from further away, meaning somewhere else in our solar system - though we have no evidence of it from Voyager and other space probes, and since Life has been on Earth since 3.6 billion years, it would have LONGER to develop on one of those planets/moons - yet no sign yet either. That means if Life was a hitchhiker, it would have come from even further away, and only 2% of meteors on Earth came from this far away. But that would mean "life" would have had to travel 1,000 years before reaching Earth, all through dark space where the temperature is a mere 2.7 degrees Kelvin. So this "experiment" replicates NOTHING and is scientifically useless in the reality of our solar system!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Good job Son of Einstein!</span></span><br />
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<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-11285135258245647142014-11-20T13:20:00.000-08:002015-03-05T21:45:58.364-08:00Why Does the Catholic Church Hate/Worship Women/Woman?<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f4549; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">
I remember when I was getting ready to convert to the Catholic Church being told the following (literally in the same week):<br />
1.) I shouldn't become Catholic because the Catholic Church worships a woman, namely Mary. (this from a "conservative" Protestant).<br />
2.) I shouldn't become Catholic because the Catholic Church hates women because, male priesthood, (this from a "liberal" Protestant).</div>
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After 10 years in the Church I've seen first hand that neither is true. Seems to me that both of these readings of the Church's ecclessiology are entirely extrinsic and utterly foreign to the actual sacramental reality of the life of the Catholic Church. Perhaps it is not about sexism and power plays or paganism and goddess worship and we ought to look more deeply into the Catholic understanding of what it means to be man and woman.</div>
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As to the specifics of Cardinal O'Malley's comments on 60 Minutes concerning the male priesthood, (pre and post edit), he was attempting to give a thorough, fair and reasoned answer while also anticipating the heart of the question for moderns which might be "why does the Church not trust women as priests?"</div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm A', 'Sentinel SSm B', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;"><b><a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/11/19/reflections-on-my-60-minutes-interview/" target="_blank">"In my comments I was trying to communicate that women are often holier, smarter and more hard-working than men, and that the most important member of the Church is a woman, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church is called to be faithful to Christ’s will, and that is not always easy or popular. Understanding the Church’s teaching is always a process that begins with faith."</a></b></span></div>
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Clearly, he is on board with the teachings of the Church. I just can't get the partisanship and the almost gleeful trigger response of getting upset among some folks who seem to prize their status as conservative and faithful. I suppose it's a bit easier to understand if folks outside the Church can't understand the reasons for the male priesthood. However, its not like the Church does not have a well developed theology for this and its not like the Church isn't open about sharing that theology in great detail. It seems to me you have to be trying kind of hard to get upset if this is scandalizing for you. </div>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-34417673067750967572014-11-13T20:00:00.001-08:002014-11-20T12:37:19.627-08:00On Three Parent Embryos<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's also called Mitochondrial Donation.<br />The donors typically aren't asked so the donation is presumed and the takers just take.<br />In the US, the FDA said "NO"<br /><a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/Endocrinology/GeneralEndocrinology/44530" target="_blank">Or at least "not yet."</a> The FDA isn't so backwards as to prevent science from doing what science <i>must</i> do on moral grounds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US believes in science too...as good westerners of course we subscribe to that creed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're just a bit slower sometimes. These sticky morality discussions take some time to ignore. Sometimes it takes a little bit of work for us to isolate these moral concerns and cram them into the category of "moral" so we can move forward with the separated category of "science" as the unrelated and more pragmatic, (and therefore more real), objective. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the FDA, they can only </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dispassionately</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> weigh all empirical categories of "science."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science is a public concern. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moral is for the religious and is only a private concern.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what does science say?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science says that Mitochondrial Donation is still not very safe.<br />Darn. Not safe for who?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, before answering that, can we ask why "safety" is even a problem for science in the first place? I mean, it is beyond me as to why science should care one bit about safety. That sounds too much like something that would fall under the moral category. Science ought to just be neatly concerned with the category of "results" and not the category of "moral." At least that always seems to be the line given if anyone voices an objection to an effort deemed scientific.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is safety only good because it pertains to results or is treating people in an unsafe manner also not a morally problematic?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In any case, does Mitochondrial Donation work?<br />Yes.<br />So what does science care if there is a high risk of complication for the people involved.<br />Care for people <i>is</i> a moral issue.<br />So to keep up the confusion of issues...some science concerns itself about some health results for some humans and some science does not concern itself with health results for some humans. When the latter happens it is no longer deemed a scientific concern even if the science is right smack dab in the middle of whatever is going on.<br />Well, at least, the contradiction seems apparent to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The UK is considering approval of this procedure as well and <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/science-and-technology-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/mitochondrial-donation/" target="_blank">hearings were held last week</a>.<br />I was surprised to see <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/science-technology/Mitochondrial%20donation/MITCorrespondence.pdf" target="_blank">my comments published in Parliament's Science and Technology Committee report!</a>That was kind of gratifying particularly as it appears that only 25 written comments were submitted.<br />With such a small response, I suppose that any voice is a loud voice.<br />I don't hold out any huge expectation that Parliament will prohibit or even pause proceedings of this procedure.<br />The UK always tends to the aggressively progressive in the areas of bioethics concerns.<br />In any case, here is the cut and paste from a section of the link above with my comments.<br />I think that despite the claims of science, the human element is what drives this.<br />Peoples' suffering matters and that is the driver, (at least the PR driver), for getting these sorts of dicey procedures approved.<br />I tried to address the people who are fearful of their children being born with Mitochondrial Disease and I think that was a little bit unique in the replies.</span><br />
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whole of this problem. The questions below are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posed in the good faith effort to summarize the
public arguments that have called for support of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mitochondrial Replacement. The answers are also
posed in good faith, in an effort to speak to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the real and pressing personal concerns that have sparked the current
review.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q:
Adoption is not something that I want to have to consider. I want to be able to
look at my<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">baby say,
“she is mine, she has the same traits as me.” That is important to me. Everyone
else<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has the
opportunity to do that with their children. Shouldn’t I be able to have the
same<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>opportunity?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: All
parents who conceive undergo some level of uncertainty. That is the fear and
joy of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">parenthood.
There is always some element of surprise with a new baby and no one can<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">guarantee
who this child will be and what strengths and weaknesses they will carry.
Neither is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there any
way to ensure that we can somehow level the field of parenthood to provide a
false<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">guarantee
of equal level of uncertainty, with regards to health or any other personal
outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course
we should work to prevent and cure health problems but not at the risk of
making an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">artifice
of our children’s genetics. The science that would seek to pre-determine the
particular<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">traits of
our children has been referred to as the pursuit of “designer babies.” We
instinctively<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">know that
there is something dangerous about this sort of scientific endeavor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q: All of
the child’s characteristics are contained in nuclear DNA. This isn’t a
three-parent<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">baby.
Isn’t mtDNA an overwhelmingly small and inconsequential part of the total
make-up<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>human DNA?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: It is
simply not true that a child only get its characteristics from nuclear DNA. It
is true that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mtDNA
accounts for less than 1% of human DNA but genetics are not simply a matter of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quantity.
Neither is this an accurate way to portray the role of mtDNA. Just because the
vast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">majority
of DNA is nuclear does not mean that there is not a large abundance of
non-nuclear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DNA in
the body. The particular substances of DNA are of importance and it is
important to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">understand
that the coding region of the mtDNA is the region of a person’s DNA that
contains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the most
ancestral markers. In dealing with mitochondrial related disease itself we
cannot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">neglect
that mtDNA is so pivotal that it is essential for the survival of the
individual. mtDNA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cannot be
treated as a negligible ingredient in the medical quest to treat mtDNA related
illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore,
if you are so determined to have a baby with your genetics, why then would you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">insert
someone else's genes into your baby? No manipulation of language will change
the fact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that this
child will be tasked with parental identity issues that are unprecedented in
human<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Q: Don’t
you think it is unfair to refer to or to associate Mitochondrial Replacement
with<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“designer
babies”?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A: While
the debate over “designer babies” typically involves the manipulation of
particular or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">isolated
DNA and mitochondrial replacement involves a broader introduction of gene line<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">transfer
it is the explicit objective in both scenarios that genetic traits will be
altered in children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is
simply bad science to suggest that mtDNA replacement has no bearing on the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">characteristics
of offspring when the intended effect is to change a portion of DNA that
carries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">maternal
inheritance patterns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Btw, much of the questions were almost directly pulled from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/22/parents-three-person-embryos-mitochondrial-disease#start-of-comments" target="_blank">this Guardian interview of a couple with a child who suffers from Mitochondrial Disease.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This story really is heart breaking.<br />Mother of divine grace, pray for us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those who are suffering, in fear and despair</span>Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-45113024769505791052014-11-07T12:11:00.003-08:002015-08-24T13:22:32.705-07:00Vaginorm - Brought to You by Some Mystified Dudes Who Know How to Turn a ProfitMan, the stuff I run across in my research. It's a few years old, but Phil Smits, some guy who used to head up Bayer's Women's Healthcare was getting pretty excited about the prospects for this drug called...<a href="http://www.bionity.com/en/news/117326/bayer-schering-pharma-and-endoceutics-enter-into-a-global-agreement-for-the-development-and-commercialization.html" target="_blank">Vaginorm</a>. Vaginorm. That is your go-to-market branding? So is this stuff supposed to make vaginas normal? Or perhaps it helps returns one's vagina to normalcy?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><b>“Vaginorm is an important late stage addition to our Gynecological Therapy R&D pipeline. We are pleased to work with EndoCeutics towards bringing a new treatment alternative for vaginal atrophy and female sexual dysfunction to an area of high unmet medical need,” said Phil Smits, M.D., Head of Women’s Healthcare at Bayer Schering Pharma. “Gynecological Therapies are a new growth area adding to our contraception business. Our research, in-licensing and innovation efforts are all geared towards this strategic goal.” </b></span><br />
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Oh. Well...there you go. So its a drug for vagina normalization! Hmm. I think I see.<br />
Uh...is that sort of like Spanish Fly in BIG PHARMA-speak?<br />
<br />
OK, I'm not an expert on menopause. Please, don't think I'm saying that it is not a real health concern with potential complications. But this <i>is</i> the same guy who had his Division turning revenues at <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/1788374/asia_birth_control_market_expected_to_grow_considerably/" target="_blank">$16B annually</a>, (<a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/1788374/asia_birth_control_market_expected_to_grow_considerably/" target="_blank">of which women's contraception drove 45)%</a>. This same organization by the way, also <b>currently has tallies of over <a href="http://www.drugwatch.com/yaz/lawsuit.php" target="_blank">$1B in legal settlements for health complications</a>, (some as serious as death), </b>for the marketing of it contraceptive Yaz. So pardon me for being a little skeptical that he's got women's health in mind.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tt1sZuV_mM8/VF0mAT713KI/AAAAAAAAAN4/coPDGP3VNAY/s1600/bayer.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tt1sZuV_mM8/VF0mAT713KI/AAAAAAAAAN4/coPDGP3VNAY/s1600/bayer.tiff" width="616" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You know I don't know what all is happening there for you ma'am but I'll do my best to get it functionally sexy."</td></tr>
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Mr. Smits has now moved on to running Bayer's Business in the Middle East in which he now has the pleasure of <a href="http://keionline.org/node/2089" target="_blank">turning down requests for affordable pharmaceuticals to women in India. </a><br />
Well, who am I to throw stones?<br />
I used to be a minor war-profiteer myself.<br />
<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-38235069741192750342014-10-23T12:06:00.003-07:002014-11-13T20:04:35.330-08:00In Distrust of MovementsWendell Berry's 2001 essay "In Distrust of Movements" Passed along from the Orion Magazine...<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The movements
which deal with single issues or single solutions are bound to fail because
they cannot control effects while leaving causes in place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">I have had
with my friend Wes Jackson a number of useful conversations about the necessity
of getting out of movements - even movements that have seemed necessary and
dear to us -when they have lapsed into self-righteousness and self betrayal, as
movements seem almost invariably to do. People in movements too readily learn
to deny to others the rights and privileges they demand for themselves. They
too easily become unable to mean their own language, as when a “peace movement”
becomes violent. They often become too specialized, as if finally they cannot
help taking refuge in the pinhole vision of the institutional intellectuals.
They almost always fail to be radical enough, dealing finally in effects rather
than causes. Or they deal with single issues or single solutions, as if to
assure themselves that they will not be radical enough. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Read the rest
<a href="http://www.morning-earth.org/DE6103/Read%20DE/Berry-distrust%20movements.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-49808259603991991102014-09-19T14:57:00.000-07:002014-10-09T08:32:41.742-07:00Who Wants to Live Forever?<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whew...<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/what-happens-when-we-all-live-to-100/379338/" target="_blank">a very long article on anti-aging technologies</a> which actually seem to be pretty
far out. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few
observations the article makes:</span> </div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“For millennia,
if not for eons—anthropology continuously pushes backward the time of human
origin—life expectancy was short. The few people who grew old were assumed,
because of their years, to have won the favor of the gods. The typical person
was fortunate to reach 40.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey, wait a second here...seems to me we
have some sort of historical records from at least 2500 years ago in which
ancient thinkers ponders the shortness of a normative 70ish year lifespan. Like for example this observation that was recorded a few years back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010f18;">“As
for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength,
eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and
we fly away.” </span><span style="color: #010f18;"> </span><span style="color: #010f18;">– Psalm 90:10</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #010f18;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also
Plato, that guy was around 80 when he died.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #010f18;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, also what about the dude in The Highlander? He was pretty old. Yeah anyway...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #010f18; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So maybe
we are just now getting back to the average lifespan of various pre-Modern eras in history. Well, at the least compared to a couple hundred years ago, </span></span><span style="color: #010f18; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how is that we’re living longer life spans now?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Viewed globally, the lengthening of life
spans seems independent of any single, specific event. It didn’t accelerate
much as antibiotics and vaccines became common. Nor did it retreat much during
wars or disease outbreaks. A graph of global life expectancy over time looks
like an escalator rising smoothly. The trend holds, in most years, in
individual nations rich and poor; the whole world is riding the escalator.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other words,
we don’t know. No problem. Keep trying to figure it out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #010f18; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So
can pharmaceuticals or medical science be leveraged to create new ways of
expanding lifespans?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Drugs that
lengthen health span are becoming to medical researchers what vaccines and
antibiotics were to previous generations in the lab: their grail. If
health-span research is successful, pharmaceuticals as remarkable as those
earlier generations of drugs may result. In the process, society might learn
the answer to an ancient mystery: Given that every cell in a mammal’s body
contains the DNA blueprint of a healthy young version of itself, why do we age
at all?<br />Straight from invertebrates to people Here in our freezers we have 100 or so
compounds that extend life in invertebrates,” says Gordon Lithgow, a geneticist
at the Buck Institute. He walks with me through labs situated on a campus of
modernistic buildings that command a dreamlike view of San Pablo Bay, and
encourage dreamlike thoughts. The 100 compounds in the freezer? “What we don’t
know is if they work in people.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I guess we don’t
know on that one either.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have we gotten
anywhere with any actual discoveries recently?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In worms, genes
called daf-2 and daf-16 can change in a way that causes the invertebrates to
live twice as long as is natural, and in good vigor. A molecular biologist
named Cynthia Kenyon, among the first hires at Calico, made that discovery more
than two decades ago, when she was a researcher at UC San Francisco. By
manipulating the same genes in mice, Kenyon has been able to cause them to live
longer, with less cancer than mice in a control group: that is, with a better
health span. The daf-16 gene is similar to a human gene called foxo3, a variant
of which is linked to exceptional longevity. A drug that mimics this foxo3
variant is rumored to be among Calico’s initial projects.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So this highly inconclusive article surmises: SOME GENETIC THERAPIES MAY COME TO LIGHT, (maybe so, maybe not).</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder how we
would test and verify those therapies on humans.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, so what is it that older people are doing differently that is allowing them to age longer?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Most of the
20th-century gains in longevity came from reduced infant mortality, and those
were onetime gains.” Infant mortality in the United States trails some other
nations’, but has dropped so much—down to one in 170—that little room for
improvement remains. “There’s tremendous statistical impact on life expectancy
when the young are saved,” Olshansky says. “A reduction in infant mortality
saves the entire span of a person’s life."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So, I spent all that time reading this article just for the Atlantic to tell me that surviving childhood is helpful if you like the idea of living a long time???</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that was inconclusive but interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-20551201692451996602014-09-11T08:30:00.000-07:002014-10-09T13:09:55.138-07:00Fairly Benign Article This Week<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The
NYTimes has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/09/health/lasker-award-winner-calls-for-more-genetic-testing-in-cancers.html?ref=science" target="_blank">story on an award winning medical research scientist who iscalling for more cancer screening. </a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In
fact she calls for almost universal cancer screening for women over 30. It is
the "we can-so we must" argument. Except that it's not quite so
simple as saying that the BRCA1 mutation is "exactly a cancer-</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri;">causing genetic
mutation." There are a few difficulties here. </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;">As the
article notes there is controversy, (of course there is), as the evidence that women
with BRCA1 mutations but no family history of breast cancer are at great risk
is scant</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;">First BRCA1 and BRCA2 have well over a hundred variations and
only a few of these are associated with cancer and tumors. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;">Also, there is the fact that 90% of women with breast
cancer do not fall into the category of testing positive for BRCA1 mutations and
coming from families with histories of breast cancer </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;">On the other hand we are told that women who test positive for
the BRCA1 mutations have a 85% lifetime risk of developing cancer.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;"> I pulled </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; text-indent: -0.25in;">the data from these last 3 bullets from an excerpt in Robert Kolb’s book “The
Ethics of Genetic Commerce.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In any case, Dr. King has certainly mastered
the language of rights-speak snippets: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Why
should women be protected from information that will empower them and allow
them to control their lives? We don’t need that kind of protection.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She
added, though, that women should not be told about other rare mutations whose
significance is unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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then, we ought to take from Dr. King that women should be protected from some inconclusive information about
mutations and it ought to be mandated that they are provided information about some other inconclusive information regarding mutations...or something, I
guess. It’s all a matter of dictating by degrees it seems. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/google-working-super-fast-quantum-computer-chip-020341883.html" target="_blank">"Google said it is working on a super-fast "quantum" computer chip as part of a vision to one day have machines think like humans."</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">So, how is it that humans
think?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Wouldn’t Google need to need
to have a really good grasp of human thought in order to mimic it? Not only how
humans think, but what human thought is? More than just looking at the processes, but dealing
with the question: “what is it that humans are doing when they are thinking
different types of thoughts?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">For example, how is wisdom
different from empiricism? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't mean, what parts of the brain handle wisdom and which parts handle empiricism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">I mean what is wisdom and what is empiricism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">Does Google have a
department of researchers who have delved into the mysteries of “epistemé” or a
“Division of Epistemology” perhaps?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MlQMkG16RYY/VAh3zfJrlCI/AAAAAAAAANo/cTV6k-u12yk/s1600/datacenter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MlQMkG16RYY/VAh3zfJrlCI/AAAAAAAAANo/cTV6k-u12yk/s1600/datacenter.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">WOWEE!!! It's a human soul...Nope, never mind. It's just a bunch of servers in a datacenter. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.eweek.com/servers/google-developing-quantum-computing-chip.html" target="_blank">eWeek has a little more detail on this story</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">and cites a blog post from Hartmut
Neven, director of engineering for the Google Research group who writes the
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If we want to cure diseases, we need better
models of how they develop. If we want to create effective environmental
policies, we need better models of what's happening to our climate. And if we
want to build a more useful search engine, we need to better understand spoken
questions and what's on the Web so you get the best answer." </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">Hmmm. So we’ve just got to
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kittens on the internet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">But really the eWeek story
is a bit less sensational while th</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;">e Yahoo! bit seems like a headline to get clicks.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"> All we can garner from any of this is that Google is really just about building
systems that have the capacity to churn more data. I can’t really see how this
is anything new from what computers already do. It’s just bigger, faster capacities
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">All a computer can do is
operate a bunch of commands…essentially a pattern of “if-then” executions. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This is not how human’s think.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: large;">As Jaron Lanier writes “<span style="color: #131313;">You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if
you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that
the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person
presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you've let your sense of
personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?”</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-10667398090224849322014-09-01T11:31:00.001-07:002014-09-01T12:12:31.118-07:00Issues in Science: Genetics and Embryology<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This ought to help get some more regular posts up on this wall. I gave up pretty much all online news stories as well as FB over Lent this year and found it so freeing that I pretty much have stayed off since then. I've read maybe a handful of articles in news journals here and there and I've strayed back to FB or drudge now and then but have for the most part steered clear of the 24 hours news cycle and insta-opinion fabricators. I don't feel like I've missed a thing. It's not that I don't care. In fact, I was talking to a friend this weekend about how we sometimes feel like our opinion doesn't matter so the temptation is to give up and develop a fatalist "nothing I can do about it" response. It's not that it doesn't matter what we think about events near and far. It absolutely does. It's just that we have gotten conditioned to think that somehow change is always 2 or 3 mouse clicks away and if it's not well...all consideration is futile. This is not to say that moral outrage is never an appropriate response. It's just that it is not always the most productive response. Sometimes it takes a while to develop a mature thought and a well considered response. Not just seconds or hours, but days, weeks and months...even (gasp) years. And just because we can't immediately measure the impact of our opinions on say, Syria, Gaza or Christians in Iraq doesn't mean that it doesn't matter what we think. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I have to comment on a weekly hot news story for one of my class in the Biotechnology track at school. So my hiatus from the trumped up world wide drama machine is now officially over. Fortunately, it's a simple assignment. A few comments or questions in short form. I can even use bullets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And...the story of the week is The Atlantic's coverage of the <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/can-an-idea-be-dangerous/379419/" target="_blank">Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Australia</a> (FODI) written by associate editor Kathy Gilsinan.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is a dangerous idea? In the academic tradition of free inquiry how do we discern between what is different, unconventional, alternative, jarring, offense and what is down right dangerous or destructive? Also, is an idea destructive just because it is dangerous? What about provocative ideas in areas in which we need to be provoked? Gilsinan writes that <b>"</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>offense is practically baked into the conceit of systematically challenging deeply held beliefs specifically because they are deeply held."</b> I like that. Particularly in light of the Enlightenment Tradition of rejecting all revealed knowledge, dogmas and um, traditions in favors of some supposedly neutral Baconian empiricism in which we will eradicate all idols of the tribe, cave, marketplace and theatre. Surely, that is something that only other people do. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Conceit indeed.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"> <a name='more'></a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">The keynote speaker at the inaugural event was Christopher Hitchens railing against <span style="background-color: transparent;">religion and five years later, we have Feminist Activist </span>Kajsa Ekis Ekman, who is speaking out against surrogacy. I appreciate Gilsinan questioning the claim that Hitchens and the New Atheists are really all that radical or unconventional considering the way those authors suffer for their work with periodic appearance on New York Times Best Seller Lists. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">"Ekman’s] main argument against commercial surrogacy is
that it resembles prostitution; they are two industries, she says, 'that sell
the female body in different ways.' </b><span style="background-color: transparent;">W</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">hereas prostitution
promotes sex without reproduction, surrogacy promotes reproduction without sex,
Ekman argues." Both employ large numbers of poor women. Full disclosure: I'm inclined to agree. There is my idol of the cave on display I suppose. </span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The director of FODI explains that opposition to surrogacy is confrontational for those parents who have participated, (I guess they're still having a hard time figuring out if offensive and dangerous are synonymous). </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cue the video coverage of Ekman as well as a surrogate and biological mom. Initially, Eckman seems to steer away from the question of
whether surrogacy is permissible when no money is exchanged. Her response is
that it would be nearly impossible to regulate and insure that that remains the
case. However, dignity is not merely
contingent on the absence of monetary exchange is it? Is it only the money and/or the likelihood of compulsory surrogacy that is problematic?</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The surrogacy "fairytale ending" parents enter the video with tender music and scenes of middle class homes and cute babies being held. Who wants to incriminate or deny a family to these women? </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later in the video however, Ekman does comment against
“altruistic surrogacy” on the grounds that it promotes the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">idea that a women’s
body exists for others and that she is supposed to sacrifice her body for the
happiness of others.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This seems to overlook the hard reality that motherhood inherently
involves some sort of sacrifice, (9 months of pregnancy, gestation and labor as well as sleep deprivation
to name just a few examples). It seems that we cannot neglect the possibility of any interior generosity that is involved in both normative or surrogate pregnancy. This would speak to the level of gift that is embedded in the manner in which all human beings are brought into existence. It is a faulty argument to assert that sacrifice is always, (or ever) coincident with the loss of human dignity. In any case </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ekman has an easier time making an argument in opposition to surrogacy when she is focusing on the concern of some external compulsion or outright violent force against women rather.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later Eckman grants that motherhood does involve
some sort of claim of the child upon her mother, (this may be more the more radical or culturally dangerous assertion). It may be a secondary concern of hers or just one that she is less comfortable asserting but she opposes the idea that </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“a
child is something that you can exchange.”</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Eckman disputes the idea that as a
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, her argument is largely an "on balance" case of cons against pros in which case there some possible goods outweighed by the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">overwhelming </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">likelihood of societal ills in which </b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">women are seen as
breeders, a commodity, etc. </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This argument is a bit utilitarian and also requires some willing to accept the plausibility of risk, which can be quite difficult to achieve when the realities of trafficking are kept hidden and entitlement to the joys of children are touted as the overwhelming end. But this line of argument does an injustice to the supposed “healthy surrogacy” scenarios as well. We need to address the problematic concerns with the actual surrogacy itself. People deserve a reasonable answer as to why they should not pursue surrogacy even if all of the problematic elements of trafficking can be mitigated. This is more difficult because it delves into the areas that are in conflict with the traditionally liberal democratic definitions of personhood and rights. It is difficult for us to see the exploitation that is at work when you have consenting adults, (this is of course to overlook the child). Eckman strains to stay away from any relations having claims upon one another because the liberal democratic state exists to protect the individual against any claims that would violate autonomy, personal freedom or supposed neutrality. Yet, these are all hypotheticals and abstractions that ignore the reality that is the actual mother/child relationship.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The false premise that is embedded here is that to deny surrogacy is to somehow deny people of the right of parenthood. Yet, even in the video of the fairytale scenario we might wonder what the full story really is. The biological mother claims that “I would adopt but ‘they’ wouldn’t let me.” We can only assume "they" is the state. But why? Why did the state authorities, (presumably) refuse to grant this woman an adoption? She has now raised the question of her suitability. It could well be that there is a perfectly reasonably explanation. We just don't know.</span></li>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-86770051013488602072014-07-19T09:10:00.002-07:002014-07-28T05:55:56.455-07:00 Celibacy As Resistance to The Man.<div class="yiv1404234539" id="yiv1404234539yui_3_16_0_18_1405687377326_8" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal;">
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<a href="http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/01/celibacy-as-political-resistance" target="_blank">Very interesting article</a> by Grant Kaplan of St. Louis University on opposing the mass imposition of Consumerist Sexuality and its implication on Church State relations.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes...I know Rush meant this as a rally for Libertarianism but I'm co-opting it because LIbertarianism is goofy and no thinking adult really wants it. Plus, the logo still works and is more valid when used as an appeal for authentic Humanism.</td></tr>
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I'd
take issue with Kaplan's opening paragraphs in which he downplays
the merit of the Bishop's call to the "Fortnight for Freedom." Prayer
and petitions are always our first recourse and I'm not sure that we
have to worry about the Holy Spirit going through our prayers with a
doctrinal scope to ensure philosophical
soundness and theological orthodoxy before He will hear our pleas, (not
that orthodoxy isn't relevant...obviously it is). In any case, efforts
to focus our attention to appeal to God are never in vain and I say
"good for the Bishops for first calling us to a prayerful response."</div>
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That said, I think this article is still well worth reading as there is some danger of us succumbing to a latent
Americanism, (or at least cultural Calvinism as Cardinal George has warned <a class="yiv1404234539" href="http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2852" id="yiv1404234539yui_3_16_0_1_1405687377326_104579" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=2852</a>
) in response to the cultural and political opposition of our times.
There is some really good history here and I think it sheds some light
on the present situation of the Catholic Church in America. <br />
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Kaplan makes
the case that Protestantism is inherently vulnerable to a kind of
state domination while the Catholic Church always
stands as a contradiction to worldly powers. Sure we have our weak, cowardly and poor spoken Bishops the same as anyone else. However, it's these quirky doctrines of ours, (real presence, sacraments, priestly celibacy, contraception, etc), that really causes the world to do the double take of dumbfounded-ness. It seems that here is where any state
ideology will always eventually bump up against Catholicism and some
sort of conflict will come to a head. I wonder if what we're seeing now
in America could have been seen as almost inevitable from the start, (and even implicitly present in the intentions of the Founders). In any case, the
Church is always called to be a sign of contradiction and in an age too
focused on the present, (and focused on the control of the present and
future), that contradiction will come to a point of outright conflict.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so shocked when the state opposes us.
Interesting point here on the 19th century Catholic German theologian Mohler
who encouraged the Church to resist the fusing together of religious and
national identity.</div>
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The
Church has always been a scandal to the world and a sign of
contradiction...all while being the only source of hope the world could
ever have.</div>
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Also... <a href="http://ethikapolitika.org/2014/04/14/celibacy-sexual-capitalism/" target="_blank">Aaron Taylor at Ethika Politika</a> has a whole slew of writing to peruse on celibacy as a voice for legitimate feminism.</div>
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-7393241100045791492014-05-03T06:41:00.002-07:002014-07-28T05:59:18.377-07:00It's a Wonderful Life...Always<h1 itemprop="name headline " style="text-align: center;">
If I'd known then what I do now, I'd have wanted him to die in my arms'</h1>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">This
is a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/mar/20/nathan-born-premature-life-death" target="_blank">really good article</a>…and deserves way more than a quick FB comment.
I think it poses some questions that require way more dignity than just
a reaction.</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$1:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$3:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$4:0">She
asks if we are always right to save premature babies because sometimes
it is only "post-poning the inevitable…" But does any one think that it
does justice to a child for a parent to say “It would be better if you
were not alive.” She comments that it is “a great taboo to wonder if she
should have let her son go when he was born so fragile and weak.” It is
a great taboo for a reason. Would anyone ever want to hear “you’d have
been better off dead” from their parents? Death is always inevitable. No
one wants to bury a child. Still, isn't it the case that whether we know, (however much we can really know anything about such things), that our child may die as a
teenager or die as an adult... isn't it still a reality that death is always
inevitable? </span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$5:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$7:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$8:0">What this mom is contending with is suffering. </span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$9:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$10:0">And the question comes down to this…Can suffering make life meaningless to the point that it is not worth living?</span></span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$13:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$14:0">The
article glances by the “numbers of over-45s having babies doubling in a
decade and IVF multiple births also on the rise, premature babies are
becoming more common”…Whoa…why is that? Post 45 pregnancy? IVF
multiples? Some combination of both? Interesting that this does not get
closer examination but the question of whether to withdraw care is the
main point. Are we contributing to these problems some how, (NOT Pearce
specifically. I’m not saying that. I’m just asking if "health care" and/or fertility treatment as a
whole are ignoring some of the problems or risks that it creates).</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$15:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$17:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$18:0">I’ll
tell you what, I would not want Dr. Bob Welch anywhere near the
delivery room when my kids come into the world. Maybe, he just got a
badly contextualized quote, but I would want a stubborn doctor that is
rooting for my kids to live, regardless of whether they are screamers or
not.</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$19:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$21:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$22:0">Pearce
shares about the impact Nathan has had on their family and how he has
made his older brother “a very kind little boy.” I hope she doesn’t
underestimate the value of that. This is not something to be looked at
in terms of cost or pain/reward benefit. You cannot quantify the value
of what Nathan and his brother are receiving from one another. They will
carry that with them the rest of their lives. Who knows how much
humanity and grace is brought into the world because of Nathan?</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$23:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$25:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$26:0">Now,
obviously I’ve never been a mother, and I’ve never experienced
suffering that is similar to what this Mom has endured. The “walk a mile
in their shoes first” factor is real here. On the other hand, suffering
is a universal. We all know what it feels like to some degree or
another. </span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$27:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$28:0">Life
is messy, painful, dirty and difficult. But it is also beautiful and if
we quantify it’s value on the level of suffering or success involved,
and God forbid, the cost of health care on the national dime, we have
lost something real and are complicit in some sort of dehumanization of
ourselves.</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$29:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$31:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$32:0">I
do agree with her that people shouldn’t be sold a false bill of goods telling them that life is going to be a Disney movie. She is the mother of a child
who is going to have to fight harder than most in order to get less than
most everyone else. That is no joke. However, suffering doesn’t
get the last word here.</span><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$33:0" /><br data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$35:0" /><span data-reactid=".7e.1:3:1:$comment10152822673138345_10152823767388345:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$36:0">Articles
like this remind me of all the things we love about movies like “Life
is Beautiful” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” If it wasn’t difficult at
times, there would be no such thing as heroism. But we press on.</span></span></span>Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-14805520369787428642014-04-18T13:59:00.000-07:002014-05-03T10:43:48.917-07:00I Really DO Care...Am I missing the point about empathy if I think this is funny?<br />
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I think this is hilarious.<br />
My wife does not.<br />
I see her point.<br />
But I still think it's hilarious. Probably because I'm an ass.<br />
I guess just because you've read "Men are from Mars, Women and from Venus" back in the '90's and you mentally ascent to it, doesn't mean that you are a good listener.<br />
I suppose there is something utilitarian about just listening and trying to be empathetic, even if you really DO care about a person, that could drive them up a wall. Just because you think you're empathetic, doesn't mean you are. It's sort of taking a reductive approach to how women operate...or something...I guess. I don't know. All I know, is that damn nail...if we could just yank that thing out...OK. Sorry. Never mind. Go on. I'm listening.<br />
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Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know them.<br />
It really is kind of funny though how absurd we are.Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-67320317669682921422014-03-23T08:39:00.000-07:002014-08-11T09:25:18.939-07:00"Religion does Nothing but Cause War and Oppression" Seems Like a Claim of Almost Willfull Ignorance. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"But what about the Crusades and Inquisitions and the Reformation? Huh, huh, What about those?" Well, I won't deny that there are travesties in history in the name of religion, (although we really are bad at history here in America these days and all of these periods really require a deeper look and not just a mere caricature from the History Channel, especially if you're going to form strong opinions on them that weight your view about things like well, God and eternity), but I will challenge the assertion that religion, properly understood, was the source of the violence. Now, there is a great deal of qualifying that is needed here. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do this justice. However, I'll remind folks of the well documented stat that in the 20th Century we became incredibly effective at killing one another and did so on a previously unprecedented level. Between Mao, Stalin and Hitler, all of whom took up ideological banners that carried an explicitly atheist component, more people were killed in one century than all of the combined war-related murders in the preceding 19 centuries.<br />
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Meanwhile, we see people of faith coming together at an unprecedented level to together appeal to God for mercy and an end war. Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-69042261634709271682014-03-14T08:01:00.002-07:002014-08-11T09:48:54.818-07:00Devotion to God Continues to Rise Despite the Assertion of His Death by Old and Now Dead White Guys.<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've been reading a little bit of Hegel and Nietzsche the past couple of semesters for school. It's worth spending the time and energy to review them, particularly if you wonder where we developed our bias of reading the world of people as a mass of individual self-deterministic consciousnesses. In any case the they helped develop and popularize the whole "God is dead" bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interestingly enough, a century later, this supposed passing of God doesn't seem to have quite the impact that one might anticipate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/03/08/catholicism-growing-heart-muslim-world/LxIiUYwSlro7Zl6ugvVQJM/story.html" target="_blank">Even the Boston Globe gives John Allen space to note the expansion of Catholicism in Muslim countries </a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.atlasofglobalchristianity.org/images/samplepages_3.pdf" target="_blank">Christianity Increases in the Arab Middle East by 7000% the 20th Century (see here, it's stats!)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2011/12/19/global-christianity-exec/" target="_blank">Even in the West, Christianity is growing even while the rate of population growth holds or even declines. Interesting</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, some of this can be attributed to population increases and various geo-political events, but the point is that regardless of cause, the number of people who believe in God and profess a religious belief in him continues to increase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course, the center of the world is not Germany, or Europe, or America. Heck, the Center of Christendom is no longer Europe and certainly is not America. So, what do those guys know? Watch our for WEIRD (western educated industrial rich democratic) and their dogmatic myopia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And of course, Islam continues to grow as well. Not sure everyone is getting the memo Nietzsche sent...much to the chagrin of the New Atheists, such as Hitchens, Dawkins and the old Materialists at the NYT, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Would it be too triumphalist of me to note that God seems to have well outlived Nietzsche? </span><br />
<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-3518504201453561692014-01-26T14:17:00.001-08:002014-05-05T07:51:30.097-07:00Anarchy and Oligarchs!<style>
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The fun of reading Chesterton is his reveling in the
seemingly absurd only to have it realized on further discussion as the pinnacle
of sanity. For example, anarchy is held up as an ideal and routine is cautioned
against. However, Chesterton is not rejecting order, but is instead calling for
a higher order. He draws a picture in which aristocratic decadence devolves
into boredom and the card trick that seems to go unnoticed is that while the oligarchy
talks about preserving tradition, it is in reality blazing a trail of
superstitious progress for the sake of progress. So it is the case that most
revolutions are not the peoples’ revolution but are instead foisted on society
by the insanely rich and the pathetically bored and it is the home and the
family that ultimately suffers as they are set upon with an imposed and alien
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For Chesterton “the [aristocratic] sort of reform as
routine is a failed proposal.” Instead, he proposes that what is needed is the
wildness of the domicile and a healthy dose of feminine anarchy. This feminine
anarchy would propose that “people should not be treated as the rule, but all
of them as exceptions.” Chesterton hints at his framework for a Distributist antidote to
landlords and usury that would craft a society of “monomaniacal” specialists
who must realize success in one particular function by giving “his all.” Contrast the tyrannical world of the specialists with the home, which serves as the cultivator of wildness. We gain as sense of how the tragedy
of the suffragette seems to be in the loss of herself as woman rather than any
shackles of the household. <br />
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I wonder if perhaps it is not only boredom, but also fear that
drives the oligarch. There is a primordial wildness in the home that cannot be
tamed by the bureaucrat. The order of the home is a bold temerity that makes a
mockery of efficiency. Chesterton writes “every woman is a captive Queen, but
every crowd of women is only a harem broken loose” and I will admit that I do
not quite get his full meaning. However, I think I have a vague sense of what
he means. There is something dangerous about the household as a feminine order
and it will do you no good to pay mere lip service to the Queen. I live in a
house with women and boys and as much as I may be permitted I agree with
Chesterton that the female is an anarchist and full of the best sort of prejudices
but I would not be foolish enough to try to categorize or quantify or explain
that to my wife or anyone else. If Frances Chesterton proofed her husband’s
writing I have to believe that her eyes were fixed in a perpetual upward roll,
but with genuine respect and affection. Chesterton concludes his work on the
feminine as the human and sacred image, “all around her the social fabric shall
sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs
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The genius of Chesterton is that in discussing what’s wrong
with the world we are not left to mere muttering and fussing like old grumps.
Instead, we can giggle like little kids who see an exhilarating pandemonium in
life because we know that we can always go rushing back behind the skirts of
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Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-53681637556260682042014-01-23T21:47:00.002-08:002014-05-03T08:50:34.911-07:00A King, a Lady and a Dragon...or a Good Man is Hard to FindMan, I am sure glad to be married. And lucky too. Seriously, if I was my father-in-law and the 22 year old version of me asked to marry my daughter, (uh, that sounds weird but you know what I mean), it would have been a short conversation starting with "no" and ending with "because you're an idiot." And I would have been right too.<br />
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Tonight I attended a book forum on Chesterton's "What is Wrong with the World." It was attended by mostly women in their 20's. The prudent thing for me to do would have been to just shut up. But as I my father-in-law could have rightly said...I am an idiot, so I spoke up and tried to ask a question about Chesterton's anarchist Queen and the fear and trembling all men should rightly experience in her presence. Yeah, whatever dude. Anyway, I was sort of surprised at one violent turn in particular that the conversation took...apparently these young single women feel that one of the main culprits in "what is wrong with the world" is that there are no good men anymore. I tried to suggest that there are never any good men in the world until we are saved by the Anarchist Queen but I was speaking in the presence of my betters and it came out all gibberish. Hopefully it was at least flamboyant gibberish. I like to at least play the jester for Ladies of the Court.<br />
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One of the young men, also in his 20's and quite frankly, a guy who ought to fit the profile of what these devout young Catholic women might envision as "a good man," tried to offer some explanation or worse maybe, a sort-of defense on why there aren't any good men. I'm not sure any of these ladies were buying, but really, it was a no-win situation for the poor guy. <br />
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I think, in my own mind at least, I too in my early 20's fit the bill for "a good man." I think somewhere in my garbled idiotic head I thought my wife was doing pretty well to marry me. This is of course why my father-in-law would have been right, or at least part of the reason. But fortunately there is a freedom in realizing that you, as the guy, are always the one who marries up. And fortunately, this took a relatively short time for me to realize. Somewhere near the birth of our first child, I would have to guess. Men will not save the world. It is always women who save the world. They save it not by trying to be like men or by trying to get men or even by trying to assert themselves over men. They save the world by simply being women. In writing about the "Higher Anarchy" Chesterton puts it this way: <br />
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But there is a further fact; forgotten also because we moderns forget that
there is a female point of view. The woman's wisdom stands partly, not
only for a wholesome hesitation about punishment, but even for a wholesome
hesitation about absolute rules. There was something feminine and
perversely true in that phrase of Wilde's, that people should not be
treated as the rule, but all of them as exceptions. Made by a man the
remark was a little effeminate; for Wilde did lack the masculine power of
dogma and of democratic cooperation. But if a woman had said it it would
have been simply true; a woman does treat each person as a peculiar
person. In other words, she stands for Anarchy; a very ancient and
arguable philosophy; not anarchy in the sense of having no customs in
one's life (which is inconceivable), but anarchy in the sense of having no
rules for one's mind. To her, almost certainly, are due all those working
traditions that cannot be found in books, especially those of education;
it was she who first gave a child a stuffed stocking for being good or
stood him in the corner for being naughty. This unclassified knowledge is
sometimes called rule of thumb and sometimes motherwit. The last phrase
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There is a Grateful Dead song about women being smarter that my sons find quiet problematic and will loudly contest whenever it gets played around the house. It's true though. My daughters are quite comfortable with the song and do not find it surprising in the least. None of this, by the way, absolves men of their responsibility to be gentlemen. My boys might be idiots, but they are at least gentlemen idiots, (also btw boys, if you read this at some point, I mean "idiot" only very loosely and with greatest affection and a strong sense of camaraderie, your Dad is still kind of crude sometimes in his articulation). In any case, my father-in-law lived in a house full of women and more importantly, he knew his daughter. And the truth is that she could only marry an idiot because all men in comparison to her would be idiots. But somewhere in the adventure of loving her and her being loved I might have at least been set on the path to becoming a good man. Perhaps, having a good dose of grace, quiet faith and humility, he had a sense that only his daughter could make something of an idiot like me. That Flannery O'Conner story about a good man being hard to find...that ends up pretty violently but in any case it doesn't click about a good man until everyone is taking a close look at death. And that is why I am so glad to be married. It is the best sort of death. I get to be slayed by truth and beauty in the person of my wife.<br />
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I have a little analogy that was generated in a discussion about a C.S. Lewis essay on myth around the fire after a few beers with my knucklehead buddies, (or at least that's how I remember it). In any case, it sort of works like this...every story is the sort of the same story, (especially all of the great stories), and essentially it is that everyman has a King to serve, a dragon to kill and a woman to save. So what to do if you are the woman? Well, I don't know for sure, I can't really tell it from her angle, but ultimately I'm guessing she is the real conqueror. <br />
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Have your way Anarchy Queen.Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-15823009888013504482013-11-02T06:27:00.001-07:002013-11-02T19:33:35.337-07:00All Souls' Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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God is the God of the living. With confidence, we pray:<br />
For all the dead whom we have loved in life: Raise them up, O Lord.<br />
For all the dead of our parish: Raise them up, O Lord.<br />
For all the dead among those who have harmed us: Raise them up, O Lord.<br />
For all the dead whom no one remembers in prayer: Raise them up, O Lord.<br />
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Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being. - Pope Benedict XVI Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-2934917036048128812013-06-11T08:24:00.002-07:002013-06-11T16:21:09.329-07:00Not Just the Paradox of Choice but the Tyranny of Freedom Wrongly UnderstoodI little while ago I read Barry Schwartz's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005696/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370957640&sr=1-1&keywords=the+paradox+of+choice" target="_blank">"The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less".</a><br />
Schwartz provides a nice summary of his work at one of the TED Conferences which can be watched here. <br />
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It is certainly worth your 20 minutes. Schwartz very well may rattle you a bit because he takes some basic assumptions of our society out for re-examination. In fact, Schwartz doesn't rest at calling them assumptions he calls them dogmas and as he explains, the official dogma of all Western Industrial societies runs like this:<br />
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"If we are interested in maximizing the welfare of our citizens, the way to do that is to maximize individual freedom. The reason for this is that freedom is both, in and of itself good, valuable, worthwhile, essential to being human AND because if people have freedom than each of us can act on our own to do the things that will maximize our welfare and no one has to decide on our behalf. The way to maximize freedom is to maximize choice. The more
choice people have, the more freedom they have; and the more freedom
they have, the more welfare they have."</blockquote>
A main theme of Schwartz's work is in making observations that our overwhelming options for choice, (particularly in, but not limited to, the area of consumer goods), are making us less happy not more happy. Schwartz is a psychologist so he looks at this from a psychological point of view and discovers that people's brains just are equipped to deal with all of the options and endless possibilities. In other words, we are finite, and when marketeers offer us what is seemingly infinite or limitless, our brains simply cannot cope. In fact, this constant barrage of choice leads to what is often called analysis paralysis and when we do make choices we end up less satisfied with the choices we have made. A more troubling side effect of all of this choice however is the heightened anxiety that is always buzzing in our heads, internally. In summary, Schwartz prescribes low expectations and reduction, (but not elimination), of options for choice.<br />
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But that can't be all there is to it, can it?<br />
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Well, not quite.<br />
Schwartz's fishbowl analogy is perhaps the beginning of a re-examination of freedom.<br />
In his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-zdh_bQBo" target="_blank">later examinations of wisdom</a>, he begins to look at job descriptions as being properly understood within the context of relationships. He even quotes Aristotle, citing practical wisdom as being that combination of moral will and moral skill. I think Schwartz goes off target a bit here as he fails to distinguish between the mechanical and the personal aspects but he's not way off.<br />
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Schwartz is right to cite the ancients in understanding wisdom and work on a broader level. This is also the sort of comprehensive look that could also inform his work on choice. Schwartz's observations regarding the short coming of our western dogma resonates because we experience the tension. It sounds right but feels off. The issue here is in our faulty understanding of freedom. David Schindler has framed it along <a href="http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/MURRAY.HTM" target="_blank">these lines:</a><br />
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issue is whether the construction of society is possible simply on the basis of
a formal notion of freedom, as "freedom from," which leaves in
suspension or perhaps even considers unresolvable the question of "freedom
for." This is the question not only of the purposes for which freedom of
conscience is being used, but also of the cultural, ethical, and even religious
presuppositions which underlie the very choice of a liberal political order. Put
most simply, does the constitutional indifference of the state imply substantive
cultural indifference to questions of truth and value?" </blockquote>
Freedom simply understood as autonomy...the freedom from others and any obligation, rather than freedom for others and the ability to authentically love does not provide us with a blank slate of options, but rather enslaves us to a sort of tyranny of the self. <br />
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Another component at play here is the demand for certainty in a decision making process or what <a href="http://www.dominicanablog.com/2013/06/11/cartesian-discernment/" target="_blank">Br. Edmund McCullough calls Cartesian discernment</a>. As Schwartz demonstrates, modern civilization has provided us with the notion that anything we can conceive of can be obtained. Simultaneously, we know that anything marketeers will pitch as a concrete actualization of freedom will disappoint us. Like Schwartz and his perfect pair of jeans, we ponder in our heads over whether or not any physical good we are experiencing is really the height of freedom we have been promised in our heads. So we turn inward again, seeking the next possibility of the good, freedom to decide and discover for ourselves what ultimately fulfills the self.<br />
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McCullough prescribes a sort of discernment for choice that occurs outside of the self however. <br />
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We were trained from youth to take in an enormous amount of information
quickly and process it all: articles, images, audio clips, sensations,
etc. As a little exercise, try taking a long, hard, possibly even boring
look at something outside. Keep looking at it until it appears slightly
different from when you first looked at it. Then you’ll have a better
idea of how the ancients thought about thinking: they didn’t think about
their own thought the way Descartes got us to do; they thought about
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It's sort of a Ferris Bueller take on choice and freedom...<br />
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<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7944317111363922411.post-82386830073690889712013-05-28T07:05:00.001-07:002014-03-22T10:40:03.551-07:00I'm not religious...I just love the Lord.This is a line that I've seen floating around Evangelical circles in some way, shape or form since I was a kid. I think it basically means: "We love Jesus but we acknowledge that sometimes religious people have done things that are an embarrassment to our um...their religion." Anyway, that line has been floating around at least since the 70's but the Emergent Evangelicals are having their own go at is if it's something they just discovered. <br />
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I always feel bad for the Emergents, (you know <a href="http://www.brianmclaren.net/" target="_blank">Brian McLaren</a>, <a href="https://www.robbell.com/" target="_blank">Rob Bell</a> and that guy who wrote <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Like-Jazz-Nonreligious-Spirituality/dp/0785263705" target="_blank">"Blue Like Jazz"</a>). I mean I get what they're reacting to. Somewhere in the last couple of decades American Evangelicalism seems to have reached it's zenith. Of course, this is debatable but certainly there has been a surge of Evangelical influence in the near recent past and the Emergents were not impressed. Or, if they were impressed, they also experienced a let-down. Some of their criticisms are well placed. It's just that they're wrong about what they propose as far as how to fix things. <br />
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Another Emergent, Jim Palmer, prescribes<a href="http://religionfreebible.com/25-reasons-why-it-is-time-for-a-religion-free-bible/" target="_blank"> 25 Reasons Why It Is Time For A Religion-Free Bible.</a><br />
However, I really think Palmer's take really begs a few questions, <span style="color: red;">(which I responded with in red)</span>. <br />
1. The Bible is not a religious book. <br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;">Question: What sort of book is it then? </span></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white;">History? Allegory? Philosophy? Literature? Poetry? Is the Bible only one of these without being simultaneously something else? Does the Bible always refrain from becoming "religious?" Leviticus for example, has a great deal of specific prescriptions for religious practice. Does Leviticus avoid the religious somehow?</span></span><br />
2. The story of the Bible has value for all of humankind, regardless of your religious tradition or no religion at all.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Does anyone within Christianity actually disagree with this?</span><br />
3. The Bible is not owned by any particular sect of people, including
institutional Christianity; the Bible is a spiritual resource for all
people.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Wasn't the Old Testament first directed to, from and about the Hebrews or the Jewish sect? I get what you're trying to say, (I think), but in opening up the Scriptures to anyone who can bear them, must you artificially divorce the Scriptures from their historical origin? If you read the Bible outside the context of it's Jewish origins you're going to be quite handicapped in your understanding of it. So why the cultural, (or even sectarian), divorce?</span><br />
4. The voice of the Bible deserves to be heard, unshackled from the repressive spin often imposed upon it.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Can you be specific about the repressive spin? Am I supposed to know what you're referring to here? Can you be less broad in your indictment here?</span><br />
5. Contrary to what “they” say, there is more than one way to read, interpret, and understand the Bible.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Is there any wrong way to read, interpret and understand the Bible? Do we need any guidance in how we read, interpret and understand the Bible? Should we be seeking that guidance from you? From someone else? You do realize that in making this statement your are claiming a position for dolling out instruction on how to interpret the Bible?</span><br />
6. People need to know that the destructive and oppressive ideas they
carry about God as a result of their involvement with religion are not
truly “biblical.”<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: So there is such a thing a truly "biblical" standard then?</span><br />
7. In the hands of the people, the Bible can be an instrument of love, beauty, peace, acceptance and harmony in the world.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Which people? Is it possible that the Bible ever becomes an instrument of chaos in the hands of the "people" as well?</span> <br />
8. Humankind needs permission to walk away from the lie we learned about
ourselves that we are bad, not good enough, unacceptable to God, and
something is wrong with us.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: If something is not wrong with me, why do I do bad things to others? Is it possible that you are lumping too many things in together in your statement here? I mean, is it possible that something is wrong with us, but that God still simultaneously loves us?</span><br />
9. Women need to be restored to their place of sacred significance that religion stripped from them.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Restored? Can you point to the time in which women were at their proper place of sacred significance? How and where has religion stripped women of their place of sacred significance? What is that place of sacred significance? Quite pointedly, is it possible that a place of sacred significance might look very similar to that which is occupied by the Blessed Mother in Catholicism's art, theology and spiritual direction as role model for both men and women? Or is it something else? </span><br />
10. The Bible can be a profound inspiration for art in every form.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: How is this other than stating the obvious? Have you ever heard of the Sistine Chapel? (I've tipped my hand here, haven't I?) Also, what about crappy forms of art? You don't think that the Bible is really an inspiration for that do you? I mean plenty of Christians make crappy art and say it's inspired by the Bible...is it really?</span><br />
11. The separation between people because of religious differences needs to be dissolved.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: How do you propose that we do that? Also, what about the differences between people that arise outside of religion? Should those differences also be dissolved? Is it possible that some of those difference are good and should remain? Is it possible that we can have cultural, ethnic and personal differences while we simultaneously share a common religious bond? You imply that religion has divided people but is it possible that it has also brought vastly diverse peoples together?</span><br />
12. God should not be the motivation or rationale for hatred, violence, oppression and prejudice.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: When is God EVER truly the motivation or rational for hatred, violence, oppression and prejudice? </span><br />
13. There are a myriad of options between Fundamentalist and Atheist.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Which option in that myriad is right? Are we right as long as we're not a Fundamentalist or an Atheist? Do you know any actual Fundamentalists or actual Atheists? For that matter, why not be a Fundamentalist...or an Atheist? </span><br />
14. Every human being needs to know of their inherent divine worth.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Who disagrees with that? Isn't that an age old tenant of religion?</span><br />
15. It’s time to stop arguing about God, and start expressing the reality of the kingdom of God.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Aren't you making an argument here? What if I disagree with your propisitions about God and the kingdom? Should I just be silent and go along with you just so that we do not disagree? Isn't it possible to have an argument that isn't a quarrel? Otherwise, what expression of the kingdom of God would you dictate to us? Is it perhaps time for people to stop quarreling so that they can actually start making decent arguments? </span><br />
16. No human being regardless of their gender, race, religion, sexual
orientation, or culture should be denied their status as a card-carrying
beloved child of God.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Again, who disagrees with that? Isn't that an age old tenant of religion?</span><br />
17. Jesus could not and would not subscribe to what is often passed off as “biblical teaching.”<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Um...actually. No question here. I wholeheartedly agree.</span><br />
18. You don’t need an MDiv or PhD in theology to embrace the simple but profound message of the Bible.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Is there anything to be gained from dedicated, (and yes academic), study of theology and the scriptures? How do we understand the Bible? Especially the confusing parts like Daniel and Revelation, (and many of the words of Christ for that matter)?</span><br />
19. There is no line between “sacred” and “secular.”<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Are sacred and secular the same thing then? That would be news to me. I wonder, (and here I am again leading the witness), do you really mean that the call of the people of God, (those who seek authentic religion), the call is to draw the secular to the sacred? To work towards a marriage of the two. Is that what you are trying to say?</span><br />
20. Humankind is not separated from and condemned by God.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Why do I still do bad things that I know God could not approve of? And really, let's be honest, what about rape? Do you mean that humankind that rapes and kills does not separate itself from God?</span><br />
21. The world is not hopeless or too far gone to be transformed by love.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: What religion says that? Certainly not the Christian religion?</span><br />
22. Our humanity is not the enemy or the obstacle to overcome.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Again, does the Christian religion say otherwise? Doesn't the Christian religion make the unique claim that God became human?</span><br />
23. Because everyday people are suffering unnecessarily because of ideas
they’ve learned about God, themselves, life, and others.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Is that suffering due to inauthentic religion, or just religion in general?</span><br />
24. Our diversity as humankind is powerful and beautiful.<br />
<span style="color: red;">Question: Again, does the Christian religion say otherwise?</span><br />
25. God has no religion.<br />
<span style="color: red;">No Question here, well a question in which I will just give the answer as well: What does God have then if he has no religion? God has Himself. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">So honestly, I've just got
to say that I've always thought the whole Emergent Church things comes
off as sophomoric and is palpably disingenuous. </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Ever notice how so much of the way evangelical churches, (and yes that goes for you too Emergents), advertise themselves these days goes like this: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">TIRED OF CHURCH? TRY OUR CHURCH! IT'S GREAT</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> "We're not like a regular church. We're a cool church."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Who are you kidding? And who is really fooled by this stuff? I'll tell you who. Pretty much people who are already Christians long enough to have been disillusioned by other Christians.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">It's a temptation here for me to presume that Palmer is trying to be edgy or radical. However, it's my responsibility to read him in good faith, to assume that he's genuinely trying to strike out and hit the truth of things. Maybe he really thinks he is opening up the Bible to people by flipping their assumptions around. But if that's the case, which people and which assumptions? Who is his intended audience? Protestant Envangelicals? Well, a lot of them already agree with him on a lot of these points. He does something or other for a living that most Americans would call...well, religious, but Palmer tries very hard to <a href="http://jimpalmerblog.com/about/" target="_blank">disassociate himself</a> from that label. The guy writes about Church, Christians, God and other religious stuff, but he's not a religious guy, if you ask him anyway. His background apparently involved pastoring a mega-Church and he hit a time of personal crisis in that venture. I suppose that due to that crisis he was able to have some perspective on how some of what he was doing and working towards was really a bit hollow. He looks at a lot of his pastoral work and religious work and wants to point folks towards something more authentic. I think the best version of what Palmer is shooting for might be this: We need to follow Jesus as He leads us, by His Spirit, on a step-by-step basis. </span></span><br />
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I can relate to a lot of where Palmer is coming from. I grew up as a pastor's kids in an Evangelical home. My family and a large part of my extended family all experienced a significant encounter with Christ sometime in the late 70's and many subsequently went and devoted themselves to full time efforts in what be called "ministry." Later on, my wife and I also had a dynamic encounter with Christ in our formative years and we also had plans to respond by going out and living a life oriented towards some sort of evangelical ministry. We have had many friends that we have formed strong bonds with due to a shared encounter with Christ. Many of them have also sought to give a great deal of their lives to some form of evangelical ministry. Almost without exception, ever one of them has hit a wall in those ministry efforts. Some walls have been more devastating than others. Some walls have been in the form of intellectual dismay, or emotional exhaustion, or loss of friendships and outright personal betrayal. Some walls have brought a loss of livelihoods and a tarnishing of reputation. Some walls, like Palmer's, have even torn marriages apart. I really can't think of anyone I know who is involved in this sort of evangelical ministry who has escaped having their face smashed into a solid structure of disappointment. I suppose you could say that sometimes the ministry disappointments involved a perpetrator that seems to only inflict the damage and yet walk away unscathed. The perps, those megalomaniacal, (or just even subtly controlling or manipulative), personalities who loudly demand or stealthy wrench control of ministry operations so as to point them in the direction of their own interests. But really, even the perps suffer a wound, whether acknowledged or not. Often the disillusioned are those that encountered a perp only to eventually discover that they were repulsed by the perp because they themselves were also perpetuating the power plays and ministry grabs. Again, Palmer's criticisms are well placed. <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I understand the dismay, the let downs and the sense of utter loss when you seem to have come to the end of things. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The ministry is now a bust. You have hit bottom. You've either been thrown out or there is something destructive going on. When you get to end of things you really only have a few options - staying put and slugging it out is not one of them. You really only have the following:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Screw everything: You can give up on the faith altogether, rejecting Christ and the faith as having any lasting value or meaning. You tried it. It was a bust. The people suck and God let you down. Screw 'em all.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Try again but this time go for a different flavor: You know that Christ came to save people that need saving and those include people in the Church. </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">So you simply go find a new ministry in the form of a different church or "fellowship." This may be in the form of a different denomination, different "fellowship" or a different para-church effort. </span></span> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Invent your own church. Well, over 40,000 attempts have been made at this one - all in the last 500 years. However, Palmer and the Emergent's are taking a bit of different tack on this. It could be called invent your own non-church. Reject religion but embrace Christ. How does one do that? Well, Palmer offers his spiritual direction, (remember, he's not religious so spirituality is fine here). Lots of other Emergents have published their books and started their own ministries as well. They all offer lots of guidance on how to think about God and the Bible. Is it lost on Palmer that much of his 25 Reasons involves following his guidance on how to interpret scripture? In fact Palmer goes so far as to advise people to embrace or at least tolerate heresy, (at least his particular heresies which I guess he thinks God is ok with, which is weird and makes me think that he doesn't really understand what heresy is, even after getting a Masters of Divinity). How is that not religious instruction? Also, I really do wonder how long they expect to avoid the same pitfalls that they decry in other churches that were also, not to long ago, new and radical. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Convert to Catholicism. </span></span></li>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> I want to say so much more about that last bullet. It requires a book really and not a blog post. At least for now. So I'm just going to let it stand...except for this. I have described some of the personal dismay that comes with ministry betrayal, let down and exhaustion. It is only right that I disclose that Catholicism has plenty of bad Catholics, (many of them self-proclaimed bad Catholics) who will provide plenty of opportunity for betrayal, let down and exhaustion. Don't believe me? Open any newspaper from any given major city on any given day. In addition to the normal, small and petty disappointments that go on every day, Catholics make front page news with their big personality let downs. I have plenty more to say on that subject but for now, I'll just note that fairness dictates that I acknowledge that Catholic life is not immune from personal letdown. The rest I will just have to leave for another day. </span></span><br />
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Back to the evangelical lexicon of relationship vs. religion. I always wonder when I hear folks make that distinction. Is this a substantive rejection of some component of the
faith or is it a misunderstanding of what Christ is a calling us to or
is it merely using semantics to reminds folks to get back to the basics of the faith? But it can't be a call back to the basics if <a href="http://jimpalmerblog.com/2012/08/25/the-church-needs-more-heretics/" target="_blank">you end up agreeing that the Church needs more heretics?</a> If you don't buy the faith, just be honest about it. I have much more respect for someone who takes a "screw it, I'm done" stance than someone who takes a "maybe I'm smart enough to tweak this whole Christianity thing" stance.<br />
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We are all, in general, quite bad at our religion. </div>
However, that doesn't mean that we need less religion or more heresy. What it may mean is that we need <u>more</u> religion. If there is no religion, there is just the self. If there is heresy there is tyranny. The self, when left to itself is a repressive bore. Tyrants often look compelling at first, particularly when they promise a cure for what ails us, but in the end they are worse oppressors than any normal, rote frustration. So given the end game of boredom, frustration and oppression, we might consider that perhaps it is authentic religion; the thing that we rightly fear, that is also the only thing with enough weight to merit our allegiance. As GK Chesterton so beautifully describes... </div>
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"This is
the thrilling romance of orthodoxy. People have fallen into a foolish
habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe.
There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy." </div>
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We could reject religion. But wouldn't it be bolder and braver and more of a "thrilling
romance" to embrace orthodoxy, that is, religion in it's unadulterated authenticity? Nothing less will suffice.<br />
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UPDATE June 12, 2013: Good grief...and now there is this <a href="http://www.psypost.org/2013/06/spiritual-young-people-more-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-religious-ones-18416?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.psypost.org/2013/06/spiritual-young-people-more-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-religious-ones-18416?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter</a> Who needs anxiety and crime? Hey Christians, Christianity IS a religion. Own it!!! Or rather, go ahead and be owned by it instead of trying to pretend like you are not something that everyone knows you are. <br />
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<br />Julianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09413790364582417620noreply@blogger.com0