tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054853820111729866.post7316716002345470901..comments2024-03-15T09:30:08.974+01:00Comments on The Radical Catholic: Modernism and Jesus ChristRadical Catholichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04135335562951838761noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054853820111729866.post-25322144984410384332015-01-03T05:27:39.577+01:002015-01-03T05:27:39.577+01:00Private comment, please. No reply necessary.
I a...Private comment, please. No reply necessary.<br /><br />I am just done reading this third in the series on Modernism. Thank you for posting it. It helps to explain some phenomena I have experienced in my own parish.<br /><br />For instance, there was the time I attended a brainstorming meeting on improvements to parish life, and in the context of religious education, I suggested a course in apologetics. The deacon and the facilitator were polite, but taken aback. Perhaps you don’t defend the existence of the Collective Conscience; you only fight over what is added and what is subtracted, to be binding on the faithful to effect a secular end.<br /><br />Also, I hear the common locution “my faith sustains me”, rather than “God sustains me” or even “my faith in God sustains me”. I can see how this locution politely bridges the gap between traditional words and modern thoughts in a mixed group. <br /><br />Has anyone ever written up a Penny Catechism for Modernists? Along the lines of:<br />Who made God? I made Him.<br />Why did you make God? I made Him to know me, love me and serve me in this life.<br />To whose image and likeness did you make God? I made Him in my own image and likeness.<br />Is this likeness to you in body, or in sentiment? This likeness to me is chiefly in sentiment.<br />How is His sentiment like to yours? His sentiment is like to mine because it is a product of my own sense experiences, and is variable.<br />What do you mean when you say that your sentiment is variable? When I say that my sentiment is variable, I mean that my sentiment changes with every new sense experience I have, and will never stop changing until the day I die and am dead, etc.<br />Tamsinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01636532242553200576noreply@blogger.com