Disqus - Latest Comments for evagrius

Re: Eschaton: Tragic Gardening Accident

evagrius — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:39:03 -0000

shortest p.m. ever....

Re: Eschaton: Saturday Evening

evagrius — Sat, 05 Oct 2019 18:28:20 -0000

Lovely to see Bo Johnson and the group participate in such a lovely exercise...

Re: Yes, There Is An Institutional Problem: Power

evagrius — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 22:35:48 -0000

Very funny....thinking that gay men have less self-control than straight men.....I wonder where all those teen pregnancies come from?

Re: Eschaton: We Do Love Our Children

evagrius — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:45:52 -0000

Having the school cleaned by students is traditional in Japan...but it requires all students, regardless of income...

Re: Eschaton: Strike Over

evagrius — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:15:48 -0000

Alison B Vulgamore?...shouldn't be Voldamort?
.

Re: Eschaton: America's Worst Humans

evagrius — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:18:21 -0000

NO GO ZONES!!!!!

Re: Bilgrimage: Commentary on Ferguson Verdict: "The Message That the Missouri Grand Jury Has Now Sent to Young African Americans . . . Is That Black Lives Do Not Matter"

evagrius — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:06:56 -0000

http://www.patheos.com/blog...

Re: Bilgrimage: Ross Douthat on the Pope's Betrayal of Catholics Who Count: A "Small Minority" Have "Kept the Faith"

evagrius — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:04:01 -0000

Having read the editorial, all I can write is that Doughhat is just covering for an an anti-women, anti-gay attitude...Francis has been able to turn the media towards the "'antis" to his benefit...He's not the bad guy, Burke with the Magna Capa is...deservedly so...It's an interesting play...I think Francis knows the denouement of the play...I hope so...

Re: Bilgrimage: Ross Douthat on the Pope's Betrayal of Catholics Who Count: A "Small Minority" Have "Kept the Faith"

evagrius — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:00:17 -0000

Well. I always thought his name was Doughat....He is not one of the true intellects of the "right"....Doughhat or Doug-hat is what he is named in the so-called left wing. I thought it peculiar until I read his dribbles.

Re: Bilgrimage: "Listening Is Good. Hearing Is Better": Valuable Commentary on the Synod on the Family Document (2)

evagrius — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:41:44 -0000

That's why I wrote it's a subtle change...

Re: Bilgrimage: "Listening Is Good. Hearing Is Better": Valuable Commentary on the Synod on the Family Document (2)

evagrius — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:20:39 -0000

I also sense a very subtle, very tentative recognition that the "assembly-line" parish structure, ie; the Church as a sacramental factory has to be changed. There's a recognition, a very subtle one, that the very concept of ministry now has to be a guiding of the faithful to holiness rather than a herding of the faithful through the gates of obedience. Of course that implies that ministry itself has to attain some degree of holiness, ( hah, fat chance I hear some mutter with justification). But I think that that is an underlying current even though it's hardly perceptible.

Re: Bilgrimage: "Listening Is Good. Hearing Is Better": Valuable Commentary on the Synod on the Family Document (2)

evagrius — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:47:28 -0000

I've written this elsewhere but I think it's still an accurate observation. Basically, the report is just an overdue recognition by the hierarchy that they no longer live in a black and white world but a full technicolor world. What upsets conservatives is that the world they wish to live in and make everyone else live does not exist. That recognition alone is "seismic"...It is a major step...to see the world as it actually is.

Re: Bilgrimage: Brief Hiatus

evagrius — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:45:16 -0000

Refresh those batteries...fall is coming.

Re: Bilgrimage: On This Independence Day: The Supreme Court's Doctrine of Corporate Personhood and the Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals of United States

evagrius — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 23:17:20 -0000

Having read the article....I would argue that, on the whole, the movement Clarkson describes, is the most dangerous heresy the Church has faced. Earlier heresies involved Christological or Pneumatological heresies...at first glance, these are mere quibbles about words but they actually involved the very definition of salvation, the very definition of who/what is a human being and who/what is God and how that definition of God is involved in human history and its destiny...( I'm Orthodox...of the kind, quite rare, unfortunately, that sees other Christians also involved in that quest to enunciate and act on that quest as being siblings),...The type of Christianity Clarkson describes is completely different from all this...It hearkens to the Old Testament theocracy...something that Jesus strove against...further, it advocates violence, again something completely against the teachings of Christ...violence against the State...another contradiction to the early Gospel, even of Paul...all in the name of a God they barely understand and reduce to their own idolatrous imagination....An excellent essay...It should be made more available...

Re: Bilgrimage: On This Independence Day: The Supreme Court's Doctrine of Corporate Personhood and the Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals of United States

evagrius — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 22:58:52 -0000

Here's ai interesting comment from Canada. She's spot on! ;http://cathiefromcanada.blo...

Re: Bilgrimage: On This Independence Day: The Supreme Court's Doctrine of Corporate Personhood and the Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals of United States

evagrius — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:43:01 -0000

That death grip seems to be permanent. I think the federal gov is basically crippled.

Re: Bilgrimage: On This Independence Day: The Supreme Court's Doctrine of Corporate Personhood and the Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals of United States

evagrius — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 15:39:47 -0000

Look on the bright side...as legal "persons", these corporations could be charged with murder, theft, extortion, bribery, corruption etc; As "religious persons", they could be charged with heresy....( hard to burn a corporation at the stake though).
I really think that the Supreme Court has created a huge, huge mess...It will come back to haunt them and their supporters...after wrecking everyone else, of course.
Only a few years ago, "dominationism" as a Christian theology/politics was considered quaint and marginal.
No major religious group bothered to dispute their claims nor show them as profoundly non-Christian.
Of course, the RC Church has never been comfortable with democracy, ( there are many RC who pine for monarchy and others blab incessantly about Christ the King, ( Paul Verghese, in his book, Freedom and Authority, prefers the image of Christ the Shepherd), meaning practically the same as dominationists.

Re: Bilgrimage: Supremes' Hobby Lobby Decision — Celebrating: Catholic Bishops, Right-Wing Evangelicals, Corporate Leaders, Men and More Men; Not Celebrating: Most of the Rest of Us

evagrius — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 23:18:48 -0000

http://www.newyorker.com/on...

Re: Bilgrimage: Twitter Lights Up After Supremes' Hobby Lobby Decision: A Selection of Noteworthy Reactions

evagrius — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:47:59 -0000

A very good commentary here;
http://digbysblog.blogspot....

Re: Bilgrimage: Twitter Lights Up After Supremes' Hobby Lobby Decision: A Selection of Noteworthy Reactions

evagrius — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:37:56 -0000

It's nice to know a "family business' can employ 15,000 people and still be so intimate and personal.

Re: Bilgrimage: Twitter Lights Up After Supremes' Hobby Lobby Decision: A Selection of Noteworthy Reactions

evagrius — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:17:34 -0000

I think this decision is eventually going to result in something unforeseen and unwanted. The weakness of the argument is around the definition of religious exemption. The Court supposedly restricts this ruling to only contraception, ( the logic escapes me) yet, I think, it will now be more difficult to counter other religious arguments. I propose a law suit from a religious group based on the religious principle that contraception is God-ordained. What then would be the reason to deny the suit?

Re: Bilgrimage: In the News: Vatican Attack on U.S. Nuns, Jesuit Theologian Under Vatican Investigation, Vatican Before U.N., and Liberal Responsibility to Talk Religion in Public Square

evagrius — Tue, 13 May 2014 12:55:07 -0000

I think the LCWR should initiate an "industrial action", i;e, a strike lasting one month.

Re: Bilgrimage: More Oh Happy Day: In Which I Tell the Rest of the Marriage Story

evagrius — Mon, 12 May 2014 22:01:03 -0000

Congratulations and many, many years!

Re: Bilgrimage: Vatican Orthodoxy Watchdog, Cardinal Müller, Delivers New Slap to American Nuns

evagrius — Sat, 10 May 2014 00:02:28 -0000

Interesting that this occurred during the week of the "Myrrh-Bearing Women" celebrated in the Orthodox Church. The Gospel reading concerns the actions of the women when confronted with the empty tomb. They were the first witnesses of the Resurrection. Not men, women.

Re: Bilgrimage: Jack Waterford on Cardinal Pell and "the Authoritarian, Cold, Unfeeling, and Arrogant Face of the Church Corporate"

evagrius — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:21:41 -0000

Lenny Bruce, trenchant critic;

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

A little dated, maybe, but ever since I heard this, "Religion Inc" has always been what I first think of when reading such things as the above.