To: annalex
I have to respectfully disagree. Only when a lifestyle of a similar sort can be shown to the secularist world will there be any hope of change. And that lifestyle must be one that is Christ-centered, and deals with the everyday vagaries of life. Monasticism can do none of that...unless you are encouraging the secularist to live as the monastic does.
813 posted on
08/05/2008 11:41:46 AM PDT by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: LiteKeeper
Monasticism demonstrates how people willingly and gladly take on vows of obedience to their religious order, and quite taxing vows at that. This questions the secular value system.
817 posted on
08/05/2008 12:00:44 PM PDT by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: LiteKeeper
Monasticism attempts to make a virtue out of a personality disorder.
It is unhealthy.
846 posted on
08/06/2008 12:05:49 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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