tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post7362132979435500640..comments2023-09-01T07:04:13.381-07:00Comments on Reflections on Faith and Culture: "I pass on to you what was passed on to me."Gil Bailiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481878663941134090noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-7130898847330164262007-08-31T07:54:00.000-07:002007-08-31T07:54:00.000-07:00"The same is true of the culture adopted by the Na..."The same is true of the culture adopted by the Nazis, as shown by its favorite cultural expression, the operas of Wagner. His famous “Ring Trilogy”, for instance, is at least on the surface an exaltation of Teutonic paganism."<BR/><BR/>If one cannot dig deep enough into one's subject to know that Wagner composed a cycle of four music dramas, the Ring Cycle, not a "trilogy", I have to wonder if we're not hovering nearer to Gossip than Gospel. Gospel shines light on everything, both Wagner's bigotry and unfortunate utility for later generations of bigots, AND his incredible genius for taking a fabulous tale (Teutonic or otherwise) and making it explode into life through some of the world's most amazing music, which we are very fortunate to still have with us. The Gospel illuminates the wheat and the chaff, and we cannot see only the chaff and hate it, nor just wheat and make it the whole truth.Dan Floriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01431746528134190577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33424426.post-21023074668256755942007-08-31T05:05:00.000-07:002007-08-31T05:05:00.000-07:00Talking about disparate yet significant connection...Talking about disparate yet significant connections, Fr Michael Liccione in speaking re: mortal sin said:<BR/><BR/><EM>There's a crucial fact usually overlooked by those who uncritically apply the Liguorian conditions (grave matter, full knowledge, and full consent): people can be and sometimes are culpable for lacking full knowledge of the wrongfulness of what they do, or propose to do. Countless are the cases when people can and ought to know better than they do, but they don't because at some level they have chosen not to. <STRONG>Whole societies can be swept up in that: e.g., Germany in the late 1930s, or Rwanda in the mid-90s. Thus, even when the Liguorian conditions for full knowledge and consent are lacking, there can be and are cases where full consent has been culpably withheld from the task of acquiring, or maintaining, full knowledge. Thus the sinner can be just as guilty as they would be if the conditions were clearly met at the time the obvious sin is actually committed. Rationalizations abound, and by no means are they all involuntary.</STRONG></EM>Athoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09158421880497827083noreply@blogger.com