Comments on: Old Home Week

By: Fr. Ernesto

Fr. Ernesto — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:33:15 +0000

Peter, AMEN!!

Huw, if I were to restore factory defaults, then I would be a Latino Roman Catholic. That means I get Carnaval, silver-laden churches with lots of altars, incredible Good Friday processions, etc. Of course, being Cuban, I would also get Santeria, spiritism, and (maybe) flagellating myself on Good Friday.

Hmm, nope, not ready to hit reset just yet. GRIN.

By: Peter Gardner

Peter Gardner — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:09:51 +0000

Maybe you said this before and I internalized it, but I figure that anyone who joins a religion because of what it isn’t is setting themselves up for failure.

By: Huw

Huw — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:36:37 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. (I resemble that remark!) I remember a reader a long while ago who had been a member of several “true churches” before he gave up. Once burnt…

I have to say, dear friend, it’s stereotypical but not always true: sometimes one has to just run the “restore factory defaults” cycle. Eventually, the quest for “upward still and onward” comes back.

By: Fr. Ernesto

Fr. Ernesto — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:16:41 +0000

All too accurate, I’m afraid! And some of the Orthodox sects are quite scary. Of course, they are also found in any movement of any type, whether religious or not.

Sometimes I think that one of Satan’s greatest tricks is the ability to constantly get people who believe stuff that is just close enough to what is true without being true. People get so scared of them that they then get scared of those who are saying true things.

So, for every John Kennedy who says, “ask not what your country can do for you. . .” there springs up a national leader who says, “ask no questions of your country,” or “ask not that your country do something for you,” etc. Thoughts just close enough that Kennedy’s message of selfless giving is lost.