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To: Sherman Logan
"Christianity is itself an ideology."

I would dispute that. Some of my RCIA students naively see the Bible, for instance, as if it were a manual of systematic moral philosophy. I keep pointing out to them that much of it is not exactly moral, and it's anything but systematic. It is full of weirdly mysterious things which you're stuck with (which I, a believer, am stuck with) whether they make sense to me at all, simply because they are true (defining true as: stuff that happened.)

Still less is Christ, Our Lord, an ideology. He is an infinite, divine Person who cannot be lopped off, shaped and framed into a human taxonomy system.

Ideology is antithetical to Mystery.

79 posted on 10/21/2013 6:46:47 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge. - F. O'Connor)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Think of it this way.

Humans are animals. They are not JUST animals, but they are indeed animals.


82 posted on 10/21/2013 6:54:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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