{"id":2713,"date":"2008-03-21T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/03\/21\/welcome-home\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T21:44:32","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/03\/welcome-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science Fiction writer John C. Wright will
\nbe entering the Catholic Church this Easter<\/a>.  I have been
\nwondering where his religious leaning were since his defense of
\nChristianity sounded so grounded in Catholic thought.  As a
\nformer atheist I always rejoice when another former atheist joins the
\nChurch (God is so good!).<\/p>\n

Since Mark Shea first linked to one of
\nJohn C. Wright’s blog posts I have been a great fan of his blog from
\nsuch fun as the Space Princess movement, his posts on SF, and the ones
\nspecifically addressing morality and Christianity.  I have
\nread all of his books which I greatly enjoyed and look forward to his
\nnew book which
\nI have pre-ordered<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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For my Protestant friends, all I can do
\nis
\nassure you that that Church you broke away from in centuries past has
\nbeen reformed of the abuses you complained of at that time. The Pope no
\nlonger sells indulgences. The theological differences are minor enough
\nthat Christly love, if you imitate His love, will cover them. I was
\nraised Lutheran, and drank in anticatholicism with my mother’s milk, so
\nI assure you I am aware of most or all the objections, subtle and
\nobvious, which you consciences in good faith might raise. The shock
\nthat came to me when I looked into Catholicism is that the Catholics do
\nnot teach what my teachers told me they teach. In any case, Protestant
\nfriends, I will be closer to you than I was when I was an atheist, so
\nplease consider this progress. <\/p>\n

For my pagan friends, rejoice! My Protestant friends tell me my
\nCatholic friends are pagans anyway! So I will be closer to you than I
\nam now. And there is certainly some truth in the idea that Catholicism
\nis a child of Jewish and Hellenic thought: the ancient civilization of
\nEurope is still alive in the Catholic Church. If you worship Brigit,
\nand I revere St. Brigit, this will be a common bond between us.<\/p>\n

For the Atheist friends, give thanks! You may think of Catholicism as
\nthe most backward and obscurantist of the Christian sects. Not so! Not
\nonly does the Catholic Church acknowledge Darwinian evolution, the
\napproach of at least some of the writers (St. Aquinas, for example, or
\nSt. Justin Martyr) is as rigorous and as rational as even the best of
\natheist writers, and darn mile more clear and rational than the worst
\nof atheist writers (who are the only ones we hear about these days).
\nCatholicism, in many of its branches, is not given to the religious
\nenthusiasms of revivalism that so many atheists find disquieting.
\n(Whether this lack of revivalism is a good thing or not, I leave for
\nthe reader to decide. Certainly more enthusiasm and crusading spirit
\nwould not be a bad thing for this Church at this hour of history.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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