It's Dangerous To Believe

[JimG]

“You may have cut the cable, stopped the daily paper, taken down any religious symbols from your office, accepted the rainbow decal on your office door, stopped talking politics with anyone—certainly at the office—yet they keep on coming. And they are coming for our kids. “Where shall we go?””

“It’s Dangerous to Believe” is a new book by Mary Eberstadt, one of my favorite authors. She is adept at examining current culture, if you can call it that. So I’ll have to get this book. But I found this book review by Austin Ruse a compelling read in itself.

 

[thephilosopher6]

“You may have cut the cable, stopped the daily paper, taken down any religious symbols from your office, accepted the rainbow decal on your office door, stopped talking politics with anyone—certainly at the office—yet they keep on coming. And they are coming for our kids. “Where shall we go?””

“It’s Dangerous to Believe” is a new book by Mary Eberstadt, one of my favorite authors. She is adept at examining current culture, if you can call it that. So I’ll have to get this book. But I found this book review by Austin Ruse a compelling read in itself.

Interesting. I ought to read it sometime.

 

[RPRPsych]

The comments section of such articles confirm what I have said all along: forget the Mother-In-Law State, we are our own worst enemies. You can play Bingo with the predictable responses:

1. Pope Francis is weak!
2. I could have written a better encyclical than Humanae Vitae!
3. Vatican II is bad!
4. Ladies, stay in the kitchen!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The greatest danger to belief is not the secular state or even Islamic fundamentalism: it’s other believers. St. Pius X said it long ago, and it remains true.

 

[Dorothy]

“You may have cut the cable, stopped the daily paper, taken down any religious symbols from your office, accepted the rainbow decal on your office door, stopped talking politics with anyone—certainly at the office—yet they keep on coming. And they are coming for our kids. “Where shall we go?””

“It’s Dangerous to Believe” is a new book by Mary Eberstadt, one of my favorite authors. She is adept at examining current culture, if you can call it that. So I’ll have to get this book. But I found this book review by Austin Ruse a compelling read in itself.

Thank you for pointing out Mary Eberstadt’s book. I read the review, and now I want to buy the book.

 

[JimG]

The comments section of such articles confirm what I have said all along: forget the Mother-In-Law State, we are our own worst enemies. You can play Bingo with the predictable responses:

1. Pope Francis is weak!
2. I could have written a better encyclical than Humanae Vitae!
3. Vatican II is bad!
4. Ladies, stay in the kitchen!

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The greatest danger to belief is not the secular state or even Islamic fundamentalism: it’s other believers. St. Pius X said it long ago, and it remains true.

I never read the comments section; I think it’s a mistake to have a comments section! (Come to think of it, Twitter is like a huge comments section that could be eliminated if it were up to me.)

 

[RPRPsych]

I never read the comments section; I think it’s a mistake to have a comments section! (Come to think of it, Twitter is like a huge comments section that could be eliminated if it were up to me.)

, especially on Twitter. Colossal nuisance.

Having said that, the book sounds rather interesting. (Though I tend to disagree on the “family breakdown - religious breakdown” sequence of events, but that’s because I tend towards a fairly unreconstructed, pre-Vatican II view of the Reformation. My bad. ) Perhaps I’ll get round to reading it next month.

 

[7_Sorrows]

thanks for sharing!