tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3214068140126385857..comments2024-03-22T17:43:18.211-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Schism bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-42561863838545694612020-10-08T09:41:57.032-07:002020-10-08T09:41:57.032-07:00Jaime, yes. Individuals have ideas, institutions ...Jaime, yes. Individuals have ideas, institutions develop and sustain these. Institutions, as they grow and move further away from the founder and the founders' vision, are subject to corruption.<br /><br />Which leads to fragmentation of the institution. bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-51209324691812169372020-10-08T07:24:56.044-07:002020-10-08T07:24:56.044-07:00"There is no human solution to the human cond..."There is no human solution to the human condition."<br />-- Me<br /><br />Human organization, regardless of type, has plus and minuses. But they all have the same issue, human nature.<br />JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-15055712001910126212020-10-06T14:04:14.191-07:002020-10-06T14:04:14.191-07:00"A great advertisement for the Catholic Churc..."A great advertisement for the Catholic Church. And the leadership of the Catholic Church is a great advertisement for Protestantism. We really need God's help...and mercy."<br /><br />It is hard to imagine what the proper solution is in regards the centralization or decentralization of the Church. It seems like the centralization of the Church was the only effective countervailing force against the formation of sovereign states in Europe. Is a common international social authority required to restrain national political authorities and to arbitrate disputes peacefully? Or is it just the social standard that is important? Must a social standard be backed by a solitary institution?<br /><br />I think the solution must be something like a federation of patriarchates with one as primus inter pares. Any way you look at it, it will take wise, just, and tempered leadership.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-78403321851161014972020-10-05T12:51:52.641-07:002020-10-05T12:51:52.641-07:00A long article but well worth the read. On the sub...A long article but well worth the read. On the subject of indulgences, a quote here from an article I've read:<br /><br />[quote]<br />Actually, they could change their minds about that. In 1515, the Church cancelled the exculpatory powers of already purchased indulgences for the next eight years. If you wanted that period covered, you had to buy a new indulgence. Realizing that this was hard on people—essentially, they had wasted their money—the Church declared that purchasers of the new indulgences did not have to make confession or even exhibit contrition. They just had to hand over the money and the thing was done, because this new issue was especially powerful. Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar locally famous for his zeal in selling indulgences, is said to have boasted that one of the new ones could obtain remission from sin even for someone who had raped the Virgin Mary. (In the 1974 movie “Luther,” Tetzel is played with a wonderful, bug-eyed wickedness by Hugh Griffith.) Even by the standards of the very corrupt sixteenth-century Church, this was shocking.<br /><br />In Luther’s mind, the indulgence trade seems to have crystallized the spiritual crisis he was experiencing. It brought him up against the absurdity of bargaining with God, jockeying for his favor—indeed, paying for his favor. Why had God given his only begotten son? And why had the son died on the cross? Because that’s how much God loved the world. And that alone, Luther now reasoned, was sufficient for a person to be found “justified,” or worthy. From this thought, the Ninety-five Theses were born. Most of them were challenges to the sale of indulgences. And out of them came what would be the two guiding principles of Luther’s theology: sola fide and sola scriptura.<br /><br />source: How Martin Luther Changed the World<br /><br />https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/how-martin-luther-changed-the-worldAhmed Fareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07105255828394485657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-66001120371257603042020-10-05T09:27:40.598-07:002020-10-05T09:27:40.598-07:00Perfect comment!Perfect comment!Eric Morrisnoreply@blogger.com