Only after I had posted this item did I go back and check the title of the blog to realise it is really The Divine WEDGIE. That has to be up there with the "Top Titles".
Now you have to sit up and take notice of a name like Matthew John Paul Tan. Is he related to my favourite illustrator Shaun Tan? In April 2010 Matthew added a Doctorate to his name tags which in my world is almost as cool as having a good Facebook profile!!
Apart from the well crafted text published by Cathblog, I was pretty impressed to find Matthew's blog reference to Rene Girard I wonder if he will respond to the barbed animosity of the comment posted by Anonymous? We share a common interest in the Ekklesia Project and I will be trawling around Jesus Radicals for familiar mentors in the faith journey.We probably share less interest in the The John Paul II Institute of Family and Marriage and Campion College. I wonder which of my links we will have in common?
I look forward to reading a bit more of Matthew, not that I expect to agree with him, but I enjoy the healthy perspectives from this new generation of Catholic writers who seem more optimistic than some of the more progessive discussion forums and "communities".
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Please find some references on applied Christian politics 101. All of which became inevitable the very moment that the early church was co-opted by the Roman state and thus became an integral and key player in the Western drive to obtain total control over everyone and everything.
www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel13.html
www.jesusneverexisted.com/cruelty.html
www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm
www.logosjournal.com/hammer_kellner
But what did Jesus himself teach and thus demonstrate while he was alive?
Was Jesus even a Christian?
No!
He was an outsider, a radical Spiritual Teacher who appeared and taught on the margins of the tradition of Judaism - if anything he was a Jewish Rabbi.
He taught and demonstrated a universal, non-Christian, non-sectarian Spirit-Breathing Spiritual Way of Life.
He did not, could not have created any of the Christian religion - the religion about him, ALL of which was created after his brutal murder, and mostly long after.
He certainly could not have created any of the "death-and-resurrection" dogma that became the center-pole of the Christian belief system.
Corpses are incapable of creating anything, especially religions - havent you noticed!
Plus none of the contents of the "catholic" "magisterium" was created by Jesus. The entire purpose of which is about the exercise power and control over the masses.
What has institutional power and control got to do with the practice of self-transcending love in all relations and under all circumstances, taught and demonst
I see in one of your posts you criticize the opulent clothes and life-style of the current pope.
Why not connect the dots and see that that opulence is very much a manifestation of the intrinsic toxicity of the institutional church altogether - the one toxic ball of wax!