tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post8620031080596553654..comments2024-02-25T16:56:47.627-05:00Comments on Magdalene's Egg: To Build or Not to Build?Father Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-61516153572187029362010-08-16T14:41:05.965-04:002010-08-16T14:41:05.965-04:00Fundamentalism has nothing to do with it. Mormon ...Fundamentalism has nothing to do with it. Mormon beliefs, including especially Mormon scriptures, are incompatible with traditional Christianity. <br /><br />That's not meant as a dig, just a straightforward theological assessment. It doesn't make them bad, any more than Muslims or Jews are bad. The only problem is that, unlike Muslims or Jews, they think of themselves (and present themselves to the world) as Christians. I know it hurts Mormon feelings, but to say otherwise is simply dishonest.Father Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170260624474428623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-13224331838427162222010-08-16T13:52:25.761-04:002010-08-16T13:52:25.761-04:00FAR TOO MANY EQUATE FUNDAMENTALISTS WITH THE ORIGI...FAR TOO MANY EQUATE FUNDAMENTALISTS WITH THE ORIGINAL BODY. PEOPLE SEE MORMONS AS WARREN JEFTS, MUSLIMS AS OSAMA BIN LADEN AND IT GOES ON AND ON. MANY SWEAR OBAMA WAS NOT BORN IN THE US, BUT PERHAPS THEY ARE JUST NOT AWARE THAT HAWAII IS A STATE. THERE IS NO END TO MISPLACING ALMOST EVERYTHING.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-54626771013390026272010-08-10T18:21:40.463-04:002010-08-10T18:21:40.463-04:00My reaction is lest tempered than yours. While th...My reaction is lest tempered than yours. While the horror of the day is certainly still etched in my mind, the memory of the walls in Penn Station filled with pictures of the "missing" still move me. I have little patience for the objectors to the center. I would have the same feeling if it were a full-fledged mosque.<br /><br />A memorial is being built a ground zero (a term I despise as a referent). To my mind it is more than sufficient to the purpose. There were of course those who held that the entire area should be made a memorial, and that the buildings not replaced. Cooler, though perhaps mammon inspired, heads ruled. <br /><br />The designs for the memorial have merit and I am sure will be moving when completed. At the same time, they will be a bit morbid, the "footprints" of the buildings being preserved like some chalk outline of a slain body on the sidewalk. <br /><br />One of the worst disaters in NY history was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. You have to look hard to find the marker for it. Is there a marker for the dead of the civil war draft riots? I fear our fixation with memorials to the dead betokens an erosion in the hope of the resurrection, as if the only eternal life these will have will be their names cast in bronze. <br /><br />In the end, the question needed to be asked of the objectors to the center is how far away is enough? How much of Manhattan do they claim as sacred space? Does it extend to the shores of New Jersey and Brooklyn? Could the center be build there?<br /><br />Mourners weep for your dead. Remember them for who they were not how they died. <br /><br /><br />I often fear that the real purpose for some in the 9-11 memorials is not merely to remember the innocent and the injustice of it all, but to keep and even stoke the fires of vengance. Think of the anger and heat in the protests about the Islamic center and tell me I am wrong.<br /><br />Few if any of those who did this will be brought to justice. Those who did this thing died in the act. Some who planned it have been caught, many killed. But given the enormity of the crime there is no punishment that would ever be sufficient.<br /><br />We pray for the dead to rest in peace; this should be our prayer for the surviors and the living as well. A house of prayer near where all this took place is a good start.Fr. James of the Tonsurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15178007.post-77868696726947704082010-08-10T09:39:07.019-04:002010-08-10T09:39:07.019-04:00Well said.Well said.LiturgyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15057237447008958156noreply@blogger.com