Comments for Political Religions at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Fri, 24 May 2013 18:14:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2544 Dear Bradley, your comment seems to me to be pedantic at best. I am sure Professor McInerney and Mr. Marlin know that death will ultimately be defeated, and I suspect that what they write about is reality and our duty to commit to God's will and do our part to secure that victory. Joy would be the fruit of our labors well done, not just another entitlement severed from responsibility. - Achilles Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:29:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2543 Where sin abounds GRACE SUPER-ABOUNDS. We live where sin abounds -- Isn't this why we need a Savior? Isn't this why He said He came as the Light shining in the darkness and the darkness could not over-power the Light? Yes, Hope is only in Christ. He is the One Way, the One Truth, the One Life and maybe if Catholic Bishops & Priests were in love with Him, the laity would be inspired by their fatherly love and more would chose Him. Let your light shine! - Tricia Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:28:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2536 Professor McInerney's column yesterday and Mr. Marlin's today paint a bleak picture of today's society. Perhaps they are right. As they gird themselves for battle, what is noticeably lacking in their columns is a sense of Christian joy and hope. We know (or should know) that sin and death will ultimately be defeated. Let us remember Psalm 118: "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad." - Bradley Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:09:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2535 Well of course all of this has been well known for for quite some time. This is equivalent to even those who are current in Americam politics who equate God as the equal to "man," instead of the truth that man can never be God's equal, nor could man deem to even dare to conceive of the thought that he could ever transcend Divine Revelation! Man has always been susceptable to self-deception. - george j. harris Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:32:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2534 Mr. Marlin, excellent article, thank you very much. Michael D.O'Brian writes in A landscape of Dragons: "the real problem is religious illiteracy, by which I mean the lack of an objective standard against which we can measure our subjective reading and sensation and experience”...“Without this objective standard, one’s personal gnosis will inevitably push aside the objective truth and subordinate it to a lesser position, when it does not banish it altogether.” (p. 83-84) - Achilles Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:23:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2533 people don't change. histories, cultures tell the same odyssey. we need to worship. we need art. we need to express love, to be outdoors, on a great day or starry night. we need to think, to wonder, to create, to be. once we step away from "human-BEing" to "human-DOing" we drink the poison, eat rotten fruit & die. what do we feed our minds, souls, hearts w/today? we exist off Gov't sponsored Bread & Circuses-Jesus came to set us free into Abundant Life! but we've settled for Soylent Green! - debby Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:20:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2532 Great article. I'd be interested to know where the evidence is for the Bolsheviks patterning themselves after the Society of Jesus. Was the author writing in a figurative sense? - Dan Deeny Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:19:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2531 if St. Paul were living here today, still inspired of course, would his choice of words not so much be a simple "lie" but rather: politics? duplicity? treachery? Maybe instead he would capitalize Truth -reminding us Truth is a Person- & change lie to Father of Lies. dear brothers & sisters, we no longer live in Eden but the Deceiver, the Murderer, Hate still coyly invites us to our deaths. Viligance! Courage! Perseverance! Hope! dwelling in His Peace, we run this race bringing souls to Him! - debby Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:19:08 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2530 To paraphrase Our Lord's parable - it is as tho' a man swept out his storehouse and seven demons came and made their home there. Secularism merely makes the path clear for our age's expressions of paganism replete with child sacrifice in abortuarial "temples". OT prophets wd spot it in a heartbeat. - Jeff H. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:18:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/political-religions.html#comment-2529 Unless one went to college forty years ago, particularly in a Liberal Arts program, he most likely has not heard of Christopher Dawson. Dawson believed that religion was an integral part of development of culture. He believed that a culture that lost its religious roots would lose its existence. We, in our Western culture, seem again to be removing religion out of the public square and substituting it with all sort of vacuous causes. Are the courts and the State replacing our religious beliefs? - Willie Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:18:07 +0100