Posted on 09/04/2014 11:21:13 AM PDT by cleghornboy
Way back in the 1970's, I purchased an excellent book written by my hero and good friend Fulton J. Sheen entitled "The Electronic Christian" and published by the Macmillan Publishing Company. In this important book (indeed every book written By Sheen could be labelled as important), the saintly Archbishop who thoroughly intrigued his audience throughout the 1950's as "Uncle Fultie" - a Catholic counterpart if you will to Milton Berle's "Uncle Miltie," explains the importance and indeed the necessity of a religion with Dogma. Here is his essay:
The modern man must decide for himself whether he is going to have a religion with thought or a religion without it. He already knows that thoughtless policies lead to the ruin of society, and he may begin to suspect that thoughtless religion ends in confusion worse confounded.
The problem is simple. The modern man has two maps before him: one the map of sentimental religion, the other the map of dogmatic religion. The first is very simple. It has been constructed only in the last few years by a topographer who has just gone into the business of map making and is extremely adverse to explicit directions. He believes that each man should find his own way and not have his liberty taken away by dogmatic directions. The other map is much more complicated and full of dogmatic detail. It has been made by topographers who have been over every inch of the road for centuries and know each detour and each pitfall. It has explicit directions and dogmas such as, 'Do not take this road - it is swampy,' or 'Follow this road; although rough and rocky at first, it leads to a smooth road on a mountaintop.'
The simple map is very easy to read
(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...
AN inetesting post, but I must respectfully suggest that you post the article just before this one on Islam.
Note, I am tired almost to health listening to this politician or that politician talk about “radical” Islam. Let’s call the spade a spade folks. It’s Islam period. Who ever preaches it preaches a religion that is void of any human kindness. Islam is no more a religion than communism
Sheen did a whole lot of good for many people, both in the Church and in the larger society... he provided a respectable, intelligent, encouraging and, yes, faithful message, and he did it in a non-threatening, accessible-to-all manner.
I’m confident the time will come when his contribution is recognized
I’m confident that he’s already a saint, in that he is already in heaven, sitting at the feet of his Savior. Whether his cause proceeds or not.
There are two paths, but they are very different - one leads to life, the other to death.
Great post - thanks much!
So the answer would be because he was Orthodox in teaching.
Watched a few of his shows on EWTN and he really got the message out in a easy and friendly way.
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