tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post2754838504224273408..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: "The Tragedy of Richard Dawkins"Father Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-61847966767439142062013-09-19T13:58:05.422-04:002013-09-19T13:58:05.422-04:00I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are y...I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are you talking about? Clearly it's not Dawkins or his detractors.<br /><br />If you're really interested in a wide-ranging critique of mainline Protestantism (and who isn't?), I encourage you to start your own blog, to which I will happily make comments. The failures of my own tribe are a subject on which I have a lot to say, as has this blog from time to time.<br /><br />But until then, try to stay with the subject at hand, would?Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-85802242796500523842013-09-19T13:57:51.535-04:002013-09-19T13:57:51.535-04:00I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are y...I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are you talking about? Clearly it's not Dawkins or his detractors.<br /><br />If you're really interested in a wide-ranging critique of mainline Protestantism (and who isn't?), I encourage you to start your own blog, to which I will happily make comments. The failures of my own tribe are a subject on which I have a lot to say, as has this blog from time to time.<br /><br />But until then, try to stay with the subject at hand, would?Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-15235947416715577312013-09-19T13:57:41.801-04:002013-09-19T13:57:41.801-04:00I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are y...I'm sorry, George, but ... what on earth are you talking about? Clearly it's not Dawkins or his detractors.<br /><br />If you're really interested in a wide-ranging critique of mainline Protestantism (and who isn't?), I encourage you to start your own blog, to which I will happily make comments. The failures of my own tribe are a subject on which I have a lot to say, as has this blog from time to time.<br /><br />But until then, try to stay with the subject at hand, would?Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-30051362010111706502013-09-18T14:53:09.693-04:002013-09-18T14:53:09.693-04:00"Father", staying one thing while remain..."Father", staying one thing while remaining another is hypocrisy. Or just laziness and a virtual total lack of any real plan to get from Bad A to Better B. Either Mainline Protestantism doesn't know or it doesn't care that its programs have had virtually no effect on its "diversity" except provide a few token spots at Headquarters for "Diversity Offices" and "Multicultural Ministries". <br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606538098234143731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-18864062099259959152013-09-10T18:47:23.284-04:002013-09-10T18:47:23.284-04:00Mark: Not in the strict Aristotelian sense, since...Mark: Not in the strict Aristotelian sense, since -- among other reasons -- it is real life, rather than a mimetic representation. But if somebody dow the road were to make a movie, I think it might qualify. A protagonist of remarkable endowments; a period of tremendous influence, marred by the hubristic excess which costs him everything. He dies in the end, if only because we all do, but it is his loss of influence which is likeliest to provoke catharsis in the audience.<br /><br />"George:" Being all-male isn't a problem. Driving women away with a culture of frat-house insensitivity is a problem. I mean, unless you're a frat house, in which case the women really don't belong there anyway (more or less the case of the Roman and Fundamentalist hierarchies as well).<br /><br />But , honestly, I'm not denouncing anybody here -- just observing out loud the denunciations offered by other secularists. So please, take up your concerns with Martin Robbins, Jim Jeffries, Keith Kloor, and Rebecca Wilson. I'd be genuinely interested in their responses.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-43777404036642368572013-09-09T11:10:07.792-04:002013-09-09T11:10:07.792-04:00Atheism is about as White as Mainline Protestantis... Atheism is about as White as Mainline Protestantism; it's less hypocritical (or maybe just less wasteful)because it's never spent millions on "Diversity Outreach" or "Multicultural Resource Officers" which have had virtually no effect on the percentage of non-Whites in Mainline churches, except for symbolic and token representation in synod and headquarter offices.<br /> If being all-male were a problem, you'd be denouncing the Orthodox and Muslims for not having female Imams or priests/patriarchs.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08606538098234143731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-84968284809717278642013-09-06T12:43:35.476-04:002013-09-06T12:43:35.476-04:00Tragedy? Do you think the situation really rises t...Tragedy? Do you think the situation really rises to that level? markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11644908598349358844noreply@blogger.com