Immersed in a country with an unhealthy alliance between "Christ" and culture, it's a shame that we don't have many sensible public Christian intellectuals. Thank heavens Kierkegaard put the pen to the paper 150 years ago. Check out this great article from folks at "First Things," on Soren K., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the incommensurability of faith and Christendom.
Also, Wendell Berry has a great article in the latest issue of "Orion." If you're new to Berry, this is a great ground-floor article. Here's a splendid paragraph:
"We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all -- by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians -- be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us."
Also, Wendell Berry has a great article in the latest issue of "Orion." If you're new to Berry, this is a great ground-floor article. Here's a splendid paragraph:
"We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all -- by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians -- be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us."
I *heart* Kierkegaard. I'll have to check Berry out too.
Posted by
Meredith |
12:01 PM
Where are the outspoken faithful (by which I do not mean the retarded zealotry of the fascigious (fascist religious))? The bleated moralizing that comes from the bully pulpit of the current demagogue-president-elect and the presumptuous biblical ornamentation of rhetoric makes everyone of sturdy mind want to projectile vomit. Every devout Christian should be willing to call the misappropriating second-rate sophist the pilfering cheat that he is.
Posted by
bnjmn |
7:16 PM