Call To Laughter
Gerald reports:
A reliable source with the Lincoln Diocese just emailed me to tell me that the Call to Action appeal to the Vatican of their excommunication by Bishop Bruskewitz has failed. Of course, one wonders why, other than to use the infrastructure, they'd want to be Catholic in the first place. After all, as one can read on their website:
Truth is not absolute. We all have insights and we are all related. The new cosmology shows us how interrelated we are.
Catholics are from Earth, CTA is from Venus.
Well I wouldn't say they are from Venus, I am pretty sure truth is absolute on Venus also. But maybe I have not kept up on the "new cosmology." Though I am pretty sure that cosmetologists have not kept up on the so-called new cosmology either. Relativists strike me as funny creatures who tie logic into pretzels and want you to believe that the statement that truth is not absolute is an absolute. Statements surely to make robots in Star Trek blow up in paradox loops. The idea that we all have insights is surely true, but they never get around to explaining what to do when insights collide and oppose each other. They certainly take on an Eastern flavor in not seeing the necessity of non-contradiction. Though often they do find the necessity of non-contradiction when you contradict them.
The new cosmology to the uninitiated has nothing to do with the science involved in cosmology but is one of the nutty ideas spearheaded by Fr Thomas Berry, Matthew Fox, and way too many retreat centers. This idea is just pantheism. Or considering the number of Dominican nuns advocating this system, it might be called pantsuitheism. "It is a way of thinking of the universe as a cosmic person" as Fr. Berry says. Berry insists that we quit our "obsessive concern" with Jesus Christ. Well I guess the positive thing about worshipping the Cosmos is that you can never be late to church.
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It's not cosmology. It's Cosmopolitan Magazine. CTA is from Cosmopolitan Magazine! That's where the truth is so...ummm...cosmo!
J
(gasp...choke...cough...cough) "pantsuitheism"!!!!! How could you DO that to me? I am DYING of laughter here!
Dunno that Venus is the planet which would have popped into my head as re. CTA.
AMDG,
-J.
Yes, truth is absolute everywhere! As Father Brown pointed out:
"Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star Look at those stars. Don't they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don't fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still find a notice-board, 'Thou shalt not steal'."
It's unreasonable to claim otherwise. It's a give-away of a dangerous imposter: "You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology."
[See "The Blue Cross" in The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton]
There was a time when Fr. Thomas Berry and the Grand Warlock, Matthew Fox might have enjoyed some pleasant months or years in a pastoral setting way out in the country. They could have spoken with and even played with Cosmos, and kind souls dressed in white would have ensured that neither Berry nor Fox could ever harm themselves or another person. But thanks to modern pharmaceuticals both men can now be let to roam about at large,
As you allude to earlier in your post: what these people are into is not cosmology, it is cosmetology --all about appearances-- and their faith, like their intellects, is no more than skin-deep.
Regards
To say that "truth is not absolute" is to be wrong by one's own definition. Even if one were right to say it, the fact that it is not absolute denies one's own authority to determine what truth is, as much as one would for anyone else.