RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
Question: Why does Christianity prevail against heresies?
Answer: Because Christianity accepts that existence is a mixture of good and evil, right and wrong, that cannot be separated into one or the other.
In this way Christianity accepts the unity of life and the world — as a mixture, one mixture — whereas heresies strive to alienate some part of life or the world from some other part — this is good, that is bad.
Christianity accepts the ambiguity of existence. Furthermore, Christianity finds the ambiguity of existence precisely in its unity. Whereas, heresies — each and all of them — reject the observation of ambiguity and seek to partition reality into simple, clear good and evil: the acceptable and the unacceptable, the friend and the foe, the in and the out, the fly-to and the fly-over, the progressive and the reactionary, the globalist and the nativist, the Left and the Right, the pure and the impure, the land of peace and the land of war — the list of potential dualisms is endless.
Every heresy is a variant of Manichaeism. Every heresy posits an ontological dualism of some distinction or another. Christianity rejects and prevails against any and all such pretensions. Existence — as far as the eye can see and as near as the ear can hear, to include bionic enhancements — is a mixture of good and evil, and, its consequential ambiguity is accepted in contrite gratitude to the Three-in-One/One-in-Three Creator, Sustainer and Fulfiller of existence. This is Christianity.
Evil enters the mixture existence is, not by way of its creation but by way of creation’s Fall, through envy. Existence that we see and hear, touch, smell and taste, is something less than what it truly is. It has been adulterated, deformed, attenuated. But it not only is so. It also is the divine corporeality. Therefore — and decisively against the downward-dragging envies, hatreds and phobias of heresies — Christianity embodies the highest possible view of man and history, the grandest possible expectation of ineluctable universal telos.
The superior strength (Latin praevalere) of Christianity vis-a-vis heresies is its acceptance of ambiguity as the united mixture existence is. This is the scandal (Greek skandalon) of the Cross: its appearance of impotence is its real power. Heretics reject that phenomenon in high horror, running pell-mell for the exits and their safe spaces, which definitionally are their self-concocted zones of considered purity. They are weak, dualists. Christians are strong, trinitarians.
Another way of putting it: Christianity is a fluency of common sense; heresies are concoctions of virtual reality.
Update 1: Kurt Schlichter: Liberals’ Kids Get The Golden Ticket While Yours Get Scraps
Glenn Reynolds: To Reduce Inequality, Abolish The Ivy League
Update 2: Maureen Callahan: Everything Today Is A Lie
Update 9: Glenn Reynolds: Abolish the Ivy League. I commented:
The Ivy League is church-made. Abolish the churches to abolish the Ivy League. Not so hard to do. Find them by law as political fronts. The churches, I mean.
The Church is exclusive, not inclusive. That fact will abolish the Ivy League, all on its own, not just talk about abolishing it. “Have no God beside me.” You do not get more exclusive than that. Make that point, miracles will happen.
Update 10: Fletch Daniels: The Democratic Cold War on Christianity Heating Up
AMDG – VICTORY
