tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post3779329969107527284..comments2023-09-01T07:04:13.381-07:00Comments on Reflections on Faith and Culture: Sunset in the WestGil Bailiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481878663941134090noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-76858553793184357262007-08-17T07:11:00.000-07:002007-08-17T07:11:00.000-07:00First of all, I hope that the talks from the Wyomi...First of all, I hope that the talks from the Wyoming gathering will be available.<BR/><BR/>If ever an expression of human construction exemplified the concretization of the primitive sacred in general and mimetic rivalry in particular, it is the mosque.<BR/><BR/>With no knowledge of mimetic theory but a profound knowledge of the deposit of faith, Hilaire Belloc wrote of the <EM>Institutes</EM> of John Calvin (Jean Cauvin): <EM>it provided an awful object of worship and ... it appealed at the same time to a powerful human appetite which Catholicism opposes. The novel object was an implacable God, the appetite was love of money. There was a dark instinct of horror which is found lurking or patent, in all antiquity and modern pagan ritual, a <STRONG>demand for victims and a prostration before dreadful power.</STRONG> Calvin provided victims. For his ardent disciples, remember, were elect. It was the others who were damned...</EM> <BR/><BR/>If that sounds like an apt description of a rapidly spreading religion today in Europe, so be it.Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com