We like to flatter ourselves for being a rational and educated age, yet countless people still think that energy is something mystical and spiritual, can be sent like a wish, and comes in morally good and bad forms. IOW, lots of people, apparently, think the Force is real.
"As an atheist, Marx’s anthropology rejected religious notions of humanity’s fallen nature. Again, this was merely a mathematical problem to be resolved systematically, but the glitch in every system is going to be humanity’s moral defects." https://t.co/SdmThMwip7
"Based on their results, the Stanford researchers estimated the mortality rate in Santa Clara County to be between 0.12% and 0.2%. By comparison, the average death rate of the seasonal flu is 0.1%." https://t.co/7ZZeqv6CDR
This may be true in some cases, but just as often, people are led to conversion through intellectual persuasion. Also, it doesn't have to be an either or; it could be both.
Deep thoughts while isolating: Whenever I mop the floor, I always get myself trapped in a corner somewhere and then I have to spend the whole afternoon there.
Yesterday, I anointed someone dying from COVID19.
His sheer joy when he recognized my voice was one of the most beautiful & powerful experiences of faith in my life.
“Father, I’m so glad you’re here. Now I can go in peace.”
This is the power of the Sacraments & why I’m a priest.
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You know how it can be consoling when someone else has gone through what you're going through? The suffering and death of God (through Jesus) is kinda like that but with infinitely larger implications.
As a married convert, 3 time adult sponsor, and father of 6, I consider myself an expert in sacramental prep and... it is not good. I understand the reasons why we have it, but based on how it's done and sometimes withheld for the worst reasons my instinct is to burn it all down.
Home education isn't an "experiment"
People were learning at home for thousands of years.
Government schooling is the experiment.
And that experiment is in trouble.