tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post4660793238952572602..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: PrioritiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-10064832354431242762014-10-30T20:29:02.769-05:002014-10-30T20:29:02.769-05:00Sure, I mean, you wouldn't wanta actually help...Sure, I mean, you wouldn't wanta actually help people.<br /><br />That'd make 'em lazy!Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-51781578711313062892014-10-30T18:55:55.095-05:002014-10-30T18:55:55.095-05:00Acts only matter as a way to show you're godly...Acts only matter as a way to show you're godly and one of the Elect, amirite?ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-87800016787445581112014-10-30T09:34:14.516-05:002014-10-30T09:34:14.516-05:00As Francis of Assisi reportedly said: "Preac...As Francis of Assisi reportedly said: "Preach the gospel constantly. Use words, if necessary."<br /><br />Protestantism especially, largely in a reaction against Catholicism, made the words central (the sermon), and denigrated "acts" as "trying to buy salvation." I understand the theological point, but it allowed us to move further and further away from the gospel teachings.<br /><br />After all, the parable of the sheep and the goats doesn't turn on what was said, but what was, or was not, done. I've said before I knew an atheist who was more Christian than most Christians, purely in his actions. If I imagine him in that parable, he's one who gets welcomed, even though he truly didn't know he was serving God by his actions.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-72816746523980783702014-10-30T07:44:31.730-05:002014-10-30T07:44:31.730-05:00I'm not so sure it's not manipulated that ...I'm not so sure it's not manipulated that way. A few years ago, decades after it should have occurred to me, I realized that if you're not an evolutionary biologist or a biologist whose professional work impinges on evolution that the topic was of rather esoteric, and marginal unimportance in the lives of most people. Its one great use in the wider society is to attack what so many believe is the central pillar of religion, the Genesis creation stories. Only, as you point out, that isn't the central pillar of religion, which accounts for why the Darwin fan boys (who, almost to a person, have never read him) will also insist that REAL religion is fundamentalist religion and that most religious people are just pretending to either not believe in fundamentalism or they're enabling it. <br /><br />As I've also said before, if Christians really tried to live up to the justice teachings of Jesus and the prophets, it would be the most wildly and universally popular phenomenon in human history. Christians who don't do that are being very bad at preaching the gospel, which is more effectively transmitted in the act and in the example than it is in the words which can just be air. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com