There's an explanation for this line of thinking.
Posted on 12/23/2008 6:23:05 PM PST by neverdem
Aims to explore "spiritual transformation" needed to replace "deadly" economic systems
Xavier University in Cincinnati will provide a venue for the EarthSpirit Rising 2009 conference next June. An aim of the conference is to “explore the cultural and spiritual transformation needed” to replace current “outdated” and “deadly” economic systems.
David Korten, the principal “planetary” speaker, is a “visionary proponent of a planetary system of local living economies.” Korten’s website is replete with ecological alarmist and anti-establishment rhetoric. On the site Korten says that the key to putting us on the right course is to “displace the prevailing” prosperity and security with “Earth Community” prosperity and security. Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis, another “planetary” speaker, espouses and teaches a kind of New Age spirituality which seems to deny the Catholic Dogma of the Trinity. She said in an interview, “The divine Father-God and the Mother-God and the animal spirits are all images of the divine - none of them exhausts the possibility of the divine.” Source: EarthSpiritRising.org
Xavier is a Jebbie school. Figures.
moonbat alert!
I had a job interview at this place five years ago. Thank goodness I wasn’t offered the job.
This is an extension of the Al Gore theology. These people are post-Christian whack jobs searching for a replacement religion. I think Obama is populating his administration with these nuts.
Too bad. I was on the University of Akron’s rifle team and we shot against Xavier each season. Used to be a good school.
There's an explanation for this line of thinking.
And to think, this was once a Jesuit school, where rigorous intellectual activity was demanded...
Don't know much, if anything, about the Jesuits, do you?
Both planetary and local - brilliant! Everyone gets control of their own destiny, but there's only one destiny they get to choose from. Gotta love the moonies' rhetorical acumen.
Hopefully he is. Environmentalism is a full-fledged religion to these people. If those are the types that are populating his administration, they will overreach big-time and there will be a severe backlash.
The labor, fuel and fertilizer used to raise food will be traded for “moonbeans and Love” no doubt.
New Age idiocy.
Don't know much, if anything, about the Jesuits, do you?
Unfortunately he does. And I'll risk JUG to say so.
Of course he's generalizing but as someone who was educated by Jesuits for 8 years, I can vouch for the tomfoolery of the 60's generation of Jesuits. In the 80's, I had some older Jesuits, pre-Vatican II, that were strict and demanding in the finest of Jesuit tradition. However, I also had younger Jesuits and teachers who had airy ideas. One priest who, despite being older at my 25 year reunion (OMG, can you believe it) still seemed totally ageless to me and I still admire him for his intellect, awesome interpersonal skills and his compassion. He alternates between being a teacher in New Jersey and a missionary in Nigeria. However, I remember so well the poster in his classroom of how one fighter jet equaled x number of homes for the homeless, meals for the mealless, classes for the uneducated, blah blah. This was during the Reagan administration and it was my reaction to that poster that taught me at 14 years old that I was a conservative!
In my Jesuit University, I saw a number of men leave the priesthood because it conflicted with their alleged sexual inclinations. Dan Shutte's departure was particularly upsetting to me.
Again. I think it's more of an era thing. The new president of the high school is younger than me! He seemed quite reasonable but we didn't talk politics. I hear that newer graduates of seminaries are more conservative than the hippie Jesuits. Let's hope so. Otherwise, it's up to Opus Dei to vanquish the heretics!
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I guess the mandatum is dead.
“Mother Earth” is not a god. One can only serve one. Excommunications are in order.
Xavier University? Is Wolverine OK with this touchy-feely stuff?
These are the hippy moonbats who infest Indian pow-wows. They pay for “Indian” names from pranksters at the reserve, set up a sweat lodge to see “visions” from Gitchee Manitou and then go into the white hippy/yuppie community to part gullible people from their money.
These idiots are total frauds.
I think I'll rent "The Mission" again this weekend.
Merry Christmas, Incorrigible.
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