Greenhut agrees

[arisbe]

With some of my LJ friends:

You know how much I hate to say it. But sometimes – well, maybe a little more than sometimes – these columns sound as if the writer forgot to take his meds. Let’s go back to Dr. Ghate’s "A Passion Against Man." It was great, really. I loved it. Brilliant stuff. Except for a couple places in the beginning, middle, and end, it would be perfect.

Let me make a comment of my own here. Ghate's article is an absurd travesty if it is taken as the last word on what I have come to profess as orthodox Christianity. But as a comment on the kind of religiosity many see reflected in the Gibson flick, which was all too common among the Roman Catholics of my childhood and seems to be all but universal in some Evangelical circles -- is it all that far from the mark?

Sometimes we need the Holy Order of Saint Ayn to keep the rest of us honest.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

the greenhut article was wonderfully written. i didn't read the ghates article first, will have to find it.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

took me 30 seconds -- i went back down your page a few posts. ecco! :)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

That reminds me, I should have linked to it here. And I just did.

Thanks.

Great Bit

[keith418.livejournal.com]

I like what the Ayn people have to tell us too, sometimes. I just wish they weren't so, well, selective about which religion to attack...