Category: Church
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Non-Abusive Community | The Scaffold and the Structure | Zizek’s ‘Marxianity’
How do we overcome the problem of corp-orations and organ-izations becoming sociopathic and abusive? This seems to be at the heart of the matter whether we are discussing the financial crisis (as Zizek does in First As Tragedy Then As Farce – the springboard for these posts) or the structure of our faith in a…
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Befriending Hitler… Befriending Sociopathic Institutions (Like the Church)
In the previous two posts { [ 1 ] [ 2 ] } I’ve been wondering whether a certain symmetry of relationship is needed if empathy is going to flow between two people. The springboard for this was Zizek critiquing the adage ‘an enemy is a friend whose story I have not yet heard’ by…
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Being a Christian Whilst Working for a Church is Like Doing Long Jump on the Moon
I fell into conversation yesterday with a friend of a friend, who began by asking me what church I went to, which precipitated a long debate about, among other things, full-time Christian work. I’ve done it, and I was left with this impression: being a Christian whilst working for a church is like doing the…
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Bad Faith | The Paradoxes of Denomination and Decision [3]
[ Bad Faith 1 ] [ Bad Faith 2 ] In the previous two posts I have attempted to outline something of Satre’s position on ‘bad faith.’ As an existentialist, Satre is convinced that we are utterly free; he is also aware that who we are as human beings is suspended in the paradox of…
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Just Smile for ‘The Peace’ | Non-Contact church
Great updates here on the NZ Catholic’s church to swine flu: no shaking hands at the peace, and no sharing one communion cup. Which begs the obvious question, if the wine is transubstantiated, why doesn’t God filter out the flu? Or does Jesus have it too?