Posted on 06/25/2014 4:26:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
One of the main problems of the EU is an inherent one: it is a problem of being constructed in a particular way as well as behaving in a particular way. The EU suffers from a lack of self-reflection and the idea of not “knowing oneself”.
The EU also suffers from a denial of failure: its official discourse claims it is on the right track. The EU does not question what it has done so far and why it went wrong. The EU has a cognitive problem that puzzles many of us.
The Christian Churches may ask for more room for reflection within the EU. In times where there is no time to “waste” on reflection, the Church may take a lead into bringing spiritual values back to the agenda, without of course repeating the mistakes of the past.
Society has changed and it keeps changing. The Churches should follow these changes with an open mind. …
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Which ones? I doubt the social justice crowd will help much. Maybe Southern Baptists OTOH.
Uhh, somebody seems to have missed the entire point of what a Church is.
At one time the church was the EU.
A polity which routinely and casually treats whole classes of people as unworthy of protection against arbitrary deprivation of life, is setting itself up for substantial attitudinal correction at the hands of any number of bad character actors waiting now inside the gates to wreak havoc. War as accelerated technological and social change is ripe and ready to effect exchange of place between those non-person victims and those who eschew any duty to protect them, who indeed proclaim the morality of lethal indifference. “How could this have happened here?” hand-wringers bewail, ignoring just how long inhumanity has held sway. Get ready for the real.
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Re: Olog-hai, “At one time the church was the EU.”
“Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc” http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8442 .
A man who has forgotten what he looks like, indeed, who doesn’t even know the fact, who has no idea that he has no idea who he is, still has an essential nature conferred upon him by his Designer.
(Sick of paying for gasoline? Just try using something other than what your car’s designer specified for fuel, like water.)
“What a piece of work is a man!” (Shakespeare, “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, Act II, Scene 2).
Something as complicated as each one of us, more complex than the froth of galaxies, indeed has a Designer. That aggregate of complexities that goes by the designation “European Union” must sooner or later, even at its last gasp, acknowledge that they don’t create themselves, they have an essential nature to which they either correspond or against which they rebel to be at war with themselves.
A European once said “self-discovery through sincere gift of self”.
Why not just give in and rediscover who we are, by loving, by sacrificing ourselves for one another?
To knarf, “Christians of any kind are only entertainment in Satan’s world. target practice”
Indeed, “First The Bait, then the Hook. A Sober Meditation on Temptation Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 6/24/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3172049/posts
CS Lewis, Screwtape Letters
https://www.google.com/search?q=cs+lewis+screwtape+letters
How can the author write:
...the Church may take a lead into bringing spiritual values back to the agenda, ...
and then immediately follow it with
Society has changed and it keeps changing. The Churches should follow these changes with an open mind.
How does "take a lead" become "follow these changes with an open mind"?
Is the author a writer for a fashion magazine?
There is a old hymn with the refrain, "Faith is an anchor to keep us, holding both steadfast and sure..." The EU is drifting aimlessly and, like the USA, desperately needs an anchor.
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