Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000
RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
By believing man educable, socialism takes man in his essential nature and in his existential condition as down low bad. By believing man redeemable, The Church takes man in his essential nature as up high good but in his existential condition as fallen. Socialism aims to improve man. The Church aims to free man. Socialism wants to mask man’s essential and existential badness with a veneer of habits of civility. The Church wants to free man from attachment to his existential condition so that his grandeur, his essential nature, freely shines forth. Socialism is terribly pessimistic about man because it takes man’s essential nature — bad — to be also his existential condition, however well-masked by education. The Church is wonderfully optimistic about man because she takes his existential condition — fallen — as fleeting and his essential nature — good, divinely good — as free-able and eternal.
Socialism starts with hatred of The Church. It is Misochristianity. Pity.
Socialism — along with its ally Caliphism — has a snowball’s chance in hell of overrunning The Church. It thinks insultingly of man.
Update 1: My friend Bob Belvedere uses the content of this post as a Thought For The Day at The Camp Of The Saints, which I commend to your attention.
Update 2: Life follows art, as if to make the point.
Update 3: Why The American Church Should Go Off The Grid
Update 4: France’s Catholic Revolution
Update 5: Richard Fernandez: The Global World Hits A Snag
Update 6: How Churches Die
Update 7: Back to Canossa, only now it is the Pope standing bare-headed in the snow begging forgiveness from the ChiComs.
Update 8: Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo: ‘China is the best implementer of Catholic social doctrine,’
Update 9: This British Vicar has figured it out: Christian Life In Exile
Update 10: Scott Johnson: Actually, Socialism Does Work
Update 11: Make Socialism Scientific Again!
Update 12: Russian Orthodox Church Breaks With Constantinople As Ukrainian Orthodox Church Pulls Away
Update 13: How Far Should Churches Go to Appeal to Men?
Most successful way to appeal to both men and women: Male only church leadership.
Men love to belong to male dominated organizations. On the other hand, women love to belong to male dominated organizations. Don’t believe me? Have you ever thought it was odd that women always want to belong to men’s business organizations, men’s career fields, men’s social clubs, men’s athletic clubs, etc., but men avoid women’s organizations.
I once attended a large and rapidly growing conservative Lutheran congregation which had a male-only leadership. I was astounded by two things. First, board and congregational meetings were more calm, to the point and productive than any church meetings I have ever been to. In three years, I never heard someone said, “Well, I feel . . .” Second, it had the strongest bunch of women I have ever known in any church I’ve ever attended. Having men in visible, public leadership roles and the women in deeply influential, behind the scenes roles worked very well for that congregation.
I suspect the church’s acquiescence to feminism in the sixties and seventies badly damaged it. As men fled the church, the church did not become larger. It did not even get more women members because as the men left, the women follow them out the door. The more women want to be in charge, the more men leave. The more men leave, the more the women leave because an organization is only valuable to them if there are lots of men in it. It’s deeply ironic, isn’t it?
Update 14: The Babylon Bee: Episcopalians Confused By Strange Book Trump Brought To Church
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
