tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post4509703731982292801..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: God in Publicbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-18291238633366348852018-11-24T10:27:11.060-08:002018-11-24T10:27:11.060-08:00If God is God, it will be done - either through so...If God is God, it will be done - either through some subset of churches... maybe through Jordan Peterson?<br /><br />:-)bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-29050595622384092572018-11-22T20:23:00.978-08:002018-11-22T20:23:00.978-08:00"Tomorrow’s world will be dominated by these ..."Tomorrow’s world will be dominated by these confusions. And if the Christian gospel can bring not only clarity but a fresh sense of direction we should all be grateful."<br /><br />From a personal perspective it has done both for me, but I assume Wright is talking about societies. How does one go about infusing a society with knowledge and understanding of Cristian gospel? <br /><br />It can't be through the church which is largely powerless or in bed with the state, which is essentially a reflection of the morals of its patrons rather than the reverse. <br /><br />"…when people sense that the world is run by very rich and very powerful people, and there’s nothing they can do about it, they tend to shrug their shoulders and suppose they’d better turn inwards, away from the public sphere."<br /><br />This is where I am today, though not quite shrugging my shoulders. I accept my influence on society diminishes rapidly beyond the boundaries of my immediate family. Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14010513213569295642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-20173853819361678522018-11-21T08:34:38.508-08:002018-11-21T08:34:38.508-08:00Hi Jeff,
"lots of people think they can co...Hi Jeff, <br /><br /><i>"lots of people think they can coherently understand history, politics, and economics while knowing little or nothing about religion."</i><br /><br />Agreed. But what you describe is interesting, since it also applies to Ludwig von Mises, who as a typical <i>Wiener Kreis</i> positivist, had a thing or two to say about religion (well, mainly Christianity). Not very educated in the religion department, or so it seems, the great LvM.<br /><br />-Sag.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-78081042799732403532018-11-20T17:07:46.889-08:002018-11-20T17:07:46.889-08:00When the modern state first began to emerge in the...When the modern state first began to emerge in the 12th century it was little more than organized crime / gangsterism. A specialized sub-gang took charge of collecting the loot aka taxing the peasants. This specialist gang became what we now know as the judiciary. To this day judiciaries are marked by garish costumes, pompous architecture, and saturated with the vocabulary of a foreign language. By contrast the Catholic church cared for the people, nurtured the spirit, and cultivated the moral order.<br />Politics was limited to armed occupation and control of geographic territory. By the 16th century the state began to expropriate the churches role of societal cultivation. There began a fundamental transformation from the control of territory to the management of populations. One could say that socialism / communism represents the endpoint of this transformation. The great wonder and mystery it was possible to experience in the medieval Catholic realm has given way drab tediousness of socialism and one need do no more than compare Gothic with Brutalism. <br />In a great Gothic pile like Westminster or Chartres youve got the peeling bells raining down their magic over the whole of the town, the mysterious clouds of incense , the fantastic soaring arches, the magicly filtered light of stained glass, the groined vaults, the evocative chant, the fabulous sculpture incised everywhere, the icons - in short all art forms are perfectly realized in the church each working in service to the other and to the whole. Contrast this with the ghastly socialist architecture of a building like Boston City Hall, an oppressive monstrosity which evokes only dread.<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12985538497409080098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89140955909123669192018-11-20T09:18:12.230-08:002018-11-20T09:18:12.230-08:00Listening to the Giffords lectures, I could see so...Listening to the Giffords lectures, I could see something like this issue coming up. He discussion was about Natural Theology but he basically said that without understanding Jesus and the cross you couldn't really understand God through nature. You could know things about Him but there was still brokeness in the world which doesn't communicate who God is but who humans are after the Fall.<br /><br />In his later lectures, Wright hones in on the idea of broken signposts. Those things that reveal God's character but incompletely and without understanding the gospel are confusing and would lead a person to misunderstanding God's character. One of those broken signposts is society, politics, government. Those things that signify human interaction. Mises discovered the positive aspects and describes them in Human Action, the division of labor and the system of social cooperation leading to material prosperity. That is a really good thing built into humanity by a good God. But when you see that some people don't cooperate but exploit, do you see the imperfection of a good but broken system. Or do you throw out the system itself and the God who created it.<br /><br />I think I can anticipate that part of what Wright will be discussing is how to mend the signposts through describing how each of them was broken in the Fall and mended at the Cross and Resurrection. After all, the Bible ends with Jesus as King on Earth with all the signposts mended.<br /><br />I am eager to hear how Wright says we can work to mend them today through the gospel.RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-37367123479817485872018-11-20T08:12:28.073-08:002018-11-20T08:12:28.073-08:00The reaction to Tom Woods's recent podcast wit...The reaction to Tom Woods's recent podcast with Gene Epstein on the subject of Israel ceding territory to the Palestinians is interesting: lots of people think they can coherently understand history, politics, and economics while knowing little or nothing about religion. They apply their modern dismissal of religion as a relevant force to past events and libertarianism. They also fail to recognize how profound the shift toward government as the sole organizing entity in society has been.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675329228366316812noreply@blogger.com