tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post3756816679533199559..comments2023-09-01T07:04:13.381-07:00Comments on Reflections on Faith and Culture: Conception and the InconceivableGil Bailiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481878663941134090noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-11255876427282731272007-03-26T14:23:00.000-07:002007-03-26T14:23:00.000-07:00In the prolepsis of Why Matter Matters (Our Sunday...In the prolepsis of <EM>Why Matter Matters</EM> (Our Sunday Visitor), David P. Lang says:<BR/><BR/>"The twentieth century witnessed on an enormous scale the emergence of some arrogantly wicked dictatorial regimes imbued with a gnostic (and often occult) worldview: Nazism, Communism, and the Sexual Revolution that spawned the Abortion Holocaust.<BR/><BR/>"Even if modern neo-gnostics do not condemn matter per se as evil, nonetheless they (like their predecessors) persist in seeing various differences in the <STRONG>forms</STRONG> of matter as <STRONG>irrelevant</STRONG> for an enlightened understanding of reality ..." (my emphases)<BR/><BR/>The ramifications of this insight are breathtaking. Cloned sheep 15% human DNA material? What's the deal? Transsexual? Yeah, sure, why not? Designer children? We got the genes, baby!<BR/><BR/>The point: thanks to Girard and the prophets, I see paganism's recrudescence clear as day. Lang is helping me to see the gnosticism in which I lived, moved, and had my being for many, many years, and how much the Church has to say about gnosticism in her teaching, sacraments, and very being.<BR/><BR/>This is a theme only now being touched in terms of the demise of Europe and the West. It's time to engage gnosticism with drawn sword.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com