tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post4509382894377735612..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: What's Dangerous About Christianity? (Updated)Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-2264756831141402092014-01-15T06:47:28.854-06:002014-01-15T06:47:28.854-06:00Peter Hitchens has been reading this blog...<a href="http://skellmeyer.blogspot.com.br/2014/01/hitchens-understood.html" rel="nofollow">Peter Hitchens has been reading this blog</a>...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-26948711562709303532014-01-06T15:41:40.917-06:002014-01-06T15:41:40.917-06:00Christianity is dangerous because it dares to tell...Christianity is dangerous because it dares to tell us that suffering has a meaning and is even good for us.Otepotihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315317923902957130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-91405527698650785972014-01-05T18:02:42.345-06:002014-01-05T18:02:42.345-06:00I find this to be an enormously complex issue, but...I find this to be an enormously complex issue, but what comes to my mind right now is that it is dangerous because it definitely sets one apart from a worldly existence. The very concept of God Himself fully becoming a man, and then facing excruciating torture and death for our sake renders not only life itself, but everything even remotely pertaining to it "new" and "special" (for shameful lack of better words), therefore obligatorily changing the way it is lived on every possible level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-63702624298108915002014-01-05T11:36:36.612-06:002014-01-05T11:36:36.612-06:00Christianity is dangerous because it can devastate...Christianity is dangerous because it can devastate one's financial bottom line. Imagine what would happen if a huge corporation actually took Christ's demands to heart! Fair pay, no unnecessary work on Sundays, charity to the poor, love instead of competition . . . No wonder American society is so opposed to Christianity!Melissa H-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03674140433439195917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-91950076867029807172014-01-05T00:25:22.360-06:002014-01-05T00:25:22.360-06:00Well consider that Christ was crucified for preach...Well consider that Christ was crucified for preaching love. God's love. That is what is dangerous. God's love is what messes up everybody's thoughts and plans. And the world is ready to crucify you for it.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15038275826830875246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-4441223844043578112014-01-04T22:18:21.848-06:002014-01-04T22:18:21.848-06:00Christianity is dangerous because when you realize...Christianity is dangerous because when you realize that God loves you enough to become human and die on a cross for you, that requires an unconditional response on you part.Patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-4089391300893887762014-01-04T16:42:01.285-06:002014-01-04T16:42:01.285-06:00In today's America, it is dangerous because it...In today's America, it is dangerous because it points out that those who are to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick and visit the prisoners, are those of us who are Christians. Christ, insofar as I can determine from Sacred Scripture, never enjoined us to petition Caesar (in whatever form is contextually relevant) to take what God has bestowed upon us as individuals and families and establish public structures to see to those duties. If that understanding is correct and were it to be followed there are a large number of people, including but by no means limited to, those who are employed by Caesar's bureaus, departments, etc., to effect the delivery of those goods and services. That alone, if it were followed, would make a substantial number of our fellow citizens extremely unhappy.<br /><br /><i>Pax et bonum</i><br />Keith TöpferMilitaris Artifexhttp://austrolibertariancatholic.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-10814137253177377472014-01-04T16:38:05.294-06:002014-01-04T16:38:05.294-06:00It localizes one's existence in God rather tha...It localizes one's existence in God rather than the state.cmomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16776470745676200706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-22526367867169913932014-01-04T16:32:44.488-06:002014-01-04T16:32:44.488-06:00Truth is always dangerous, and Christianity has th...Truth is always dangerous, and Christianity has the Truth and is not shy about speaking it, which angers those who hope to disregard Truth and "change reality" to fit their own agendas.<br /><br />Love can also be dangerous, since Christianity speaks of loving as the Lord loves us, even to loving one's enemies - how can you encourage others to be jealous, or hate, or subjugate, or take advantage, of others when love is an over-riding concern? <br /><br />And Christianity speaks to a Higher Power - the Highest Power - to whom Christians look for guidance...Christianity does not look to the world as the end of all things. There is more. And since that "more" is more important than anything here on this earth, then it is very difficult for an outside power to coerce Christians to follow along if the path being shown does not lead to Heaven.<br /><br />Dangerous to those who want power, who want to control humanity ....Shellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05485793986602894527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-10225036958224178042014-01-04T15:15:48.690-06:002014-01-04T15:15:48.690-06:00Christianity is dangerous because it requires us t...Christianity is dangerous because it requires us to forgive those who trespass against us. Gregg the Obscurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-58878185650957562362014-01-04T10:57:00.182-06:002014-01-04T10:57:00.182-06:00Christianity is dangerous because it demands that ...Christianity is dangerous because it demands that we conform ourselves to something external, or better, to Someone external. Our lives are not our own to dispose of as we wish. God makes demands of us, and He has the right to do so because He made us. Because He recognizes that we are sinful, in His mercy He has given us the Sacraments as the means to become fortified in grace and to become reconciled with Him. Even so, we squander graces more than we realize and continue to stumble in our sinfulness. Christianity teaches us to tame our wills, probably the most challenging demand ever made, and for many, a demand too radical for the human ego to abide. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com