tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post5824222754093744592..comments2024-03-17T09:38:01.251-05:00Comments on Adventus: Easter Monday 2018Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-61005436670661540302018-04-02T19:48:48.154-05:002018-04-02T19:48:48.154-05:00The story of religious disagreement is as old as P...The story of religious disagreement is as old as Peter and Paul in Acts. 😉Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-91939042022692071322018-04-02T18:28:24.204-05:002018-04-02T18:28:24.204-05:00I can't much take Religion Dispatches these da...I can't much take Religion Dispatches these days. <br /><br />It is striking how often his closest friends didn't recognize him in the various accounts of the resurrected Jesus. I imagine the RD atheist nay-men choir would claim it was evidence that it was some kind of body-double hoax, not going past that to the incredibly radical change the experience made in the people who knew him both before his death and after. I've been looking at the citations of the canonical books, such as the citation of First Corinthians in Clement of Rome's epistle and it is striking how much they were willing to risk even in the second generation for what would be such an improbable seeming story. <br /><br />The story of religious disagreement is as old as the ante-nicene Churches, the various sects that came to such an unpleasant head in the various condemnations of various councils of bishops after Christianity became the state church of Rome, after the age of persecution ended and as there was something in asserting orthodoxy as various bishops - especially those of the Roman aristocracy and their allies used them for power. And as the Emperors decided they got to play a role in deciding things like which bishop got elected - something which is still an issue in, for example, China. Boy, hasn't Francis taken heat for his attempt to make peace over that one, though I suspect he has a good reason for having done so. <br /><br />Sorry, my thinking's a bit of random access, today. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com