tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post7854135804294339902..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: Dividing easily two who were never really joined....Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-47731969127464763832018-05-02T21:11:32.928-05:002018-05-02T21:11:32.928-05:00@The Thought Criminal: very well said, summed up b...@The Thought Criminal: very well said, summed up beautifully in the first sentence. The struggle is between Christianity - whose values are not of this world - and Christendom, whose values are. trexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16838170190127187564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-58506165694966051312018-05-02T19:06:56.962-05:002018-05-02T19:06:56.962-05:00The history of Christianity could be told as a str...The history of Christianity could be told as a struggle between the Gospel and the general pagan cultures that nominally adopt Christianity even as they either don't give up or have to struggle to not revert to either non-Christian or anti-Christian habits. Why there were so many Christian Monarchs of Europe who warred and whored and stole and never much went in for doing to others as they would have done unto them, and the nobility in general, not a few of them members of the clergy. <br /><br />I don't know the percentages but a lot of White Evangelical Americans who identify so much as Christians don't seem to have any problem with the princeling of liars, Trump. They fit into a long line of such people. Racism being the American original sin, as most dramatically expressed in slavery, that is a huge part of it. <br /><br />I don't know when it was but Elizabeth Johnson said a lot of Catholics freaked out when some priests and others started crossing themselves "In the name of the Creator, the Savior and the Sanctifier" after Vatican II, and that was in the Catholic Church. There is a recent reform to change the line "and lead us not into temptation," Pope Francis said he favored changing it because it was a bad translation, that God doesn't lead anyone into temptation. In France they've changed it to "let us not be put to the test." The U.S. Bishops head has recently said that maybe they should look at changing the Benedict XVI era "reform" of the liturgy which changed rather good idiomatic English that was quite natural for some really bad "closer to the Roman Missal" nonsense fostered by a right-wing Chilean Cardinal, a good buddy of Benedict. Catholics really hated that "reform" which, among other things, was very expensive to implement. Benedict resigning was the best thing he did as Pope. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com