"Do these jeans make my halo look fat?" From 2009:
'Jesus in jeans' sculpture unveiled [bronze statue depicting Christ as a "man of the 21st century"]
Posted on 11/25/2014 7:04:53 AM PST by BlatherNaut
The same people who did this to the nuns have also infected public education. Values clarification is at the very heart of Common Core. It is Spiritual Ebola.
Moral relativism has been at the core of every civilization that collapsed. It is the beguiling alluring song of evil.
I think this applies to everyone, not just Catholics. The author gives examples of how the sensitivity movement has affected the American Catholic church, but it affects all of America.
Public schools in particular. College, work and even sports.
Psychology is evil disguised as good.
It caused my family of origin to fall apart and it caused my marriage to fall apart. I fight every day to keep the kids and my relationships strong and to make it real clear that we are the family. That it is extremely difficult to make families out of pieces of other families.
"Do these jeans make my halo look fat?" From 2009:
'Jesus in jeans' sculpture unveiled [bronze statue depicting Christ as a "man of the 21st century"]
Looks more like pyjamas.
Man, that is painful to behold. It makes a mockery of the crucifixion.
...”His clothing is being blown vigorously to add the sense of him being alive and his strength in defying earthly cares.
“The clothing is loosely contemporary in order to connect Christ to his people now as much as to his past.
“I hope this sculpture will inspire and communicate in very human terms, reaching out and being relevant to both the congregation and local community.”
Stay strong and keep up the good fight.
It’s actually difficult to get away from existential nihilism.
If JFK had not squeaked into office in 1960, there would not have been the 1960s that we think of, and America would have merely had Eisenhower’s veep as president, with no Vietnam, no “60s” no 1965 Immigration Act, no unionized government against us no homeless, no “Great Society”, no “Camelot” and all of the culture and politics that was driven for decades from that Castle on the shining hill. The 60s would have been simply the decades that followed the 1960s.
It wasn’t 17 year olds in bell bottoms that were making the court decisions and the decisions of senators and church Bishops, and college presidents and generals and Mayors, and heads of TV networks and News, and Hollywood studios and the teacher’s unions, it was the adults.
I find this analysis far too coarse to accurately portray what has happened psychologically. Without a discussion of methodology manipulation - things like triangulation, Delphi or NLP for example, it just doesn’t reach the actual causes. People turned to what they perceived as a more compassionate way of thinking because they were tired of being pounded as sinners. The solution was never to pound them harder, but realize that far from ignoring the teaching, they had internalized it so much it was killing them and they had lost sight of Christ’s love. So the ran towards the bait evil set up, which was exactly what they didn’t find in the Church - forgiveness, mercy and compassion. But they didn’t understand (and still don’t) how such things could be used as a front for evil, and so they were swallowed up.
The Jesuits have a lot to answer for - they strut add the matters of such knowledge and provided venues for these newer modes of learning. But even today the have yet to teach the flip side, the dangers of unconditionally lowering defenses and sabotaging critical thinking in areas of personal boundaries and the existence of enemies. They sure teach it to themselves, though - just not to those who go to them for learning.
Although the results of the "Encounter/Human POtential" movement were nothng less than catastrophic, and in a way you can see, tabulate, evaluate on an objective scale, people seem to "want" to believe in it. Why is that? What is so attractive about this rot, anyway?
During the “me decades,” priests, nuns, and laity abandoned the Church in droves in order to find personal self-fulfillment. One particular incident in the late sixties stands out as emblematic of the new mood that was sweeping through the Church. In 1967, the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of teaching nuns invited Carl Rogers and his colleagues to carry on an experiment in “educational innovation” within their extensive school system in Los Angeles. What followed was a two-year program of intensive encounter groups. The end result was the collapse of the teaching order and along with it the school system they ran. As I wrote several years ago:
The sisters, who had initially been enthusiastic about revitalizing their schools, became absorbed with questions of self-actualization. Teaching took a back seat. Many lost their faith as well. The order secularized itself and broke its ties with the Catholic Church. The schools were shut down. Coulson, who was project coordinator, later wrote, “When we started … there were six hundred nuns and fifty-nine schools…. Now, four years later, as I write, a year following the formal completion of the project there are two schools left and no nuns.”
Catholic ping!
This makes sense to me. It was the beginning of the era of situational ethics and “me-ness”
End result: narcissism.
“Unless we manage to discard our trust-fall fantasies about the human condition, we seem destined to experience a fall of much greater magnitude in the not-too-distant future.”
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I think this is now a *given.* Many people will then be ripe for the evangelization that we now focus on. The Holy Spirit still guides. “As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen”
Amen!!!! It has affected our educational systems much more than most people are aware of.
The Jesuits have a lot to answer for...
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SOME Jesuits may have a lot to answer for... and we are ALL going to have to answer for many things in our lives.
Nah.. I figure that was mostly your fault.
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