East-facing Christian
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I try my best to love the new order… am I not a model Winston Smith… but every week they throw something new at me
I write this mainly because judging from on here you'd think that inevitably there's going to be a great Traddening very soon and I think this is some kind of delusive wishful thinking. The Vatican have set themselves up for some of these things for decades. They mean it!
There's a reason "Socratic dialogue" and Plato generally were most prized by democratic Great Books-type educators and not in actual Christendom—because the movement of the dialogues is exactly from democratic laxity to God. But they're not edifying reading for young seminarians.
Post-conciliar popes so far have come in two types:
Fraternal: talks about joy and the devil, anti-traditionalist, conciliates Communists
Paternal: concerned with sexual morality,
anti-totalitarian, more teacherly
Not entirely sure which Leo is, maybe a bit more fraternal
Every country goes through all the regimes, but some of them become truly themselves at a certain stage. America will become tyrannical, but not the tyrannical empire, because in its heart it truly believes in freedom and democracy.
A future pope (Benedict XII), when inquisitor, debated with an arrested apostate Jew (Baruch) for 2 months in 1320. I had thought this was the norm for the Inquisition but it turns out it was a rare exception. Christian practice has unfortunately not lived up to this philosophy…
If you read the polemics of that age you'd think true Catholicism was among the Jansenists, exactly as traditionalists talk now. You hear about the FSSP on here but never about the Communauté Saint-Martin.
Jansenism, which was so similar, was also not an obscure niche movement. It stuck around for 200 years, influenced geniuses like Pascal, Beethoven, and Manzoni, and was supported by dozens of bishops. It still failed and was fully expelled from the church.
commonwealmagazine.org/rival…
One thing I'm still processing is the difference between the fundamental story of good v evil I was raised with – LotR-Star Wars-HP: the scrappy band of rebels defeat the evil lord – and the fundamental equivalent in Christianity – proud Satan rebels against God's true authority.
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hate conversational bad faith. i’m trying to understand u and you’re trying to defeat me. we are participating in two entirely different activities
