tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post1329353076473033812..comments2024-02-26T09:30:54.111-06:00Comments on Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: Gnostic Gibberish from the LCWR Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-86149247896060642382013-08-27T13:20:28.104-05:002013-08-27T13:20:28.104-05:00I couldn't agree more. Jesus is not the child...I couldn't agree more. Jesus is not the child of a cosmic Creator. And not taking him seriously is dangerous indeed.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-87475001175315693212013-08-27T10:45:58.865-05:002013-08-27T10:45:58.865-05:00Putting Jesus on a pedestal begins by being deceiv...Putting Jesus on a pedestal begins by being deceived into thinking that Jesus is the child of a cosmic Creator. It ends in failing to take the guy seriously.Sophia Sadekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303748450821405889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-78874478558168754312013-08-23T07:52:56.687-05:002013-08-23T07:52:56.687-05:00Following Jesus begins by accepting and understand...Following Jesus begins by accepting and understanding that the Christ is the final and unique revelation of God. He's not a Hindu avatar or a Buddhist bodhisattva. He is God. The God Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; our Lord revealed in the Old and New Testaments. That God -- the Christian God -- is not a product of nor a part of the cosmos. He is the Creator of the cosmos.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-30415026728474502892013-08-22T10:32:29.298-05:002013-08-22T10:32:29.298-05:00That illustrates the difference between putting Je...That illustrates the difference between putting Jesus on a pedestal and actually following him. Christians stick to the former practice.Sophia Sadekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303748450821405889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-21012181884513294782013-08-21T17:02:02.226-05:002013-08-21T17:02:02.226-05:00They get it. They just don't believe it. They&...They get it. They just don't believe it. They've allowed their itching ears to be scratched by pseudo-scientific poetry.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-64877168819468653872013-08-21T17:00:50.186-05:002013-08-21T17:00:50.186-05:00Yea. No thanks. I'll with being a Christian.Yea. No thanks. I'll with being a Christian.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-23684692824881184652013-08-21T11:49:37.440-05:002013-08-21T11:49:37.440-05:00Catholics might want to reconsider the order of cr...Catholics might want to reconsider the order of creation. It appears more likely that God is a creature of the Cosmos than the other way around. He bears all of the earmarks of a very human craftsman.Sophia Sadekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303748450821405889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-57888921897378282052013-08-20T11:10:16.293-05:002013-08-20T11:10:16.293-05:00Thanks for the Thomistic analysis of the gibberish...Thanks for the Thomistic analysis of the gibberish. But in a way you are being too charitable in assigning it to a lack of philosophy. That's true, of course, but anyone who learned the Baltimore Catechism (as many of these sisters did, judging by their age) would know that God does not need the cosmos. He is the Creator of all. It's hard to understand how these sisters don't get something so basic to the Catholic faith.Sr. Marianne Lorraine Trouvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17195314713288191226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-56043831775894842292013-08-19T15:57:58.014-05:002013-08-19T15:57:58.014-05:00Jason,
Toleration of Protestants (as one of which...Jason,<br /><br />Toleration of Protestants (as one of which I was raised) differs from full inclusion in the Body of Christ. If they do not understand and affirm what the Church teaches to be Truth, but rather vigorously oppose it, then they are not truly and fully a part of the Body of Christ. I would suspect, although I am not by any means an expert, that some of them have separated themselves from the Body of Christ by deliberate rejection of infallibly taught dogma. I say suspect, because I do not have all of the facts, nor am I a theologian nor a canon lawyer, simply a relatively recent convert doing my best to conform my life to the teachings of the magisterium.<br /><br /><i>Pax et bonum</i>,<br />Keith Töpfer<br />Martial_Artisthttp://austrolibertariancatholic.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-7976431539100969642013-08-19T12:26:28.877-05:002013-08-19T12:26:28.877-05:00But we tolerated and accept Protestants now. We c...But we tolerated and accept Protestants now. We called them separated brethren despite the fact they may follow Calvinism a modified pelagianism or Lutheranism a form of Marcionism or Evangelicals that could be following a type of Arianism all the way to Gnosticism. So if we can cut them some slack why not our unseparated brethren and their views. Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441618666419874438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-47359091107261539502013-08-17T11:18:28.805-05:002013-08-17T11:18:28.805-05:00These girls are Gnostic only in an inverted and de...These girls are Gnostic only in an inverted and degraded sense. They identify the physical universe with God, while Gnostics identify it as a prison, the fallen product of the pseudo-divine Demiurge, not the Godhead. And they are hellbent, pardon the irony, on their egalitarian and utopian social causes, something no Gnostic would give five minutes to, they being spiritual elitists and convinced that this world and its systems are incapable of being salvaged, much less saved.<br /><br />Despite the sloppy and ideological use of Gnostic (usually stemming from Voegelin) as a stand-in for social and political programs of "immanentizing the eschaton", Gnostics were far more like monastics living an "angelic life" in this world than the foolish utopian social engineers the LCWR represents.OreamnosAmericanushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15602268350813211243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-870615230222555752013-08-17T08:45:09.757-05:002013-08-17T08:45:09.757-05:00Technically we are not star dust but will return t...Technically we are not star dust but will return to dust of the earth. Even if we were on a space ship, died and returned to dust there, we would still not be star dust. The only time we would be star dust is if we collided w a star and in our disintegration became mixed w the particles. But still, the star would know it wasn't us not by the knowledge these women threw away in place of garbbbage; it would 'know by its makeup and how it was formed- bonds. Now, if they reflected on that point, similarities could take u to heights....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-23595544507340451522013-08-17T03:55:28.051-05:002013-08-17T03:55:28.051-05:00It's obvious that many of these women never to...It's obvious that many of these women never took a real philosophy class like metaphysics or epistemology. In the 60-70's they were allowed to enter theology doctoral programs with little or no philosophy, substituting sociology, psychology, etc. It shows.Fr. Philip Powell, OPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14970857401221305221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-63897710866301495922013-08-17T01:33:42.555-05:002013-08-17T01:33:42.555-05:00These badly trained sisters are out there confusin...These badly trained sisters are out there confusing the already confused laity with this nonsense? The sooner the Vatican shuts them down the better for all of us.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-68151896927814070342013-08-17T00:47:13.047-05:002013-08-17T00:47:13.047-05:00We are made of stardust. So is chicken poop. Thi...We are made of stardust. So is chicken poop. This is chicken poop theology.Grapes and Raisinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14112756979941863139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18842286.post-10494396808577982452013-08-16T18:32:56.539-05:002013-08-16T18:32:56.539-05:00I don't remember mechanicism being a trait of ...I don't remember mechanicism being a trait of the Greek philosophers as much as of the Renaissance ones...<br /><br />Anyway, why do gnostic sisters look like lesbians? Really, she went out of her way to look like a man in the release picture. What gives?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com