tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post7742608888913221995..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: We Can Deal With the Problems of the World -- It's the Solutions that are So DevastatingGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-20274316567502352802015-09-03T04:39:18.481-07:002015-09-03T04:39:18.481-07:00Tim Keller has a sermon about the historical Jesus...Tim Keller has a sermon about the historical Jesus that makes the case that one cannot present an inoffensive Christ to the world. On several cultural levels he expertly defends that thesis, but the best he saves for last: you cannot create an inoffensive Jesus without destroying your relationship with Him. If you are never offended, you have no relationship with Christ but a god of your own making. Ours is a God of relationship. Prior to creation, the Trinity exulted in the beauty of their relationship and we are called to exult in it as well.<br /><br />I appreciate Bob being ahead of the curve as I watch so many Christians in the U.S. struggle to articulate their stance on politics and suffer such abuse at the tongues of the Left. They struggle to be fair-minded and moderate, but they don't struggle for the Relationship or the need to defend their immortal being in the light of the Left's nihilism. The answers they are seeking are not politically apt. They must judo the conversation back into reality as we experience it, life as we encounter it, and the questions that are primal. Joan of Argghh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14729682908266300507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41523822423800179392015-09-02T12:30:50.143-07:002015-09-02T12:30:50.143-07:00...but they are not actually unproductive, in the ...<i>...but they are not actually unproductive, in the sense that they produce the very statism that employs more of these unproductive and unemployable idlers.</i><br /><br />Perfectly stated. mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54821261286066554942015-09-02T10:08:03.999-07:002015-09-02T10:08:03.999-07:00Ah: one of our problems is affluence, which leaves...<i>Ah: one of our problems is affluence, which leaves grumblers and malcontents with too much free time:</i><br /><br />Not for nothing are idle hands the devil's playthings.<br /><br /><i>In short, the intellect is infected by the will -- the will to not know or to know what is not. This again goes to our primordial c., for it is always the same shitty utopia, only the vocabulary changes.</i><br /><br />Our old friend envy is always all too happy to help us to know what is not, perhaps especially if it's something unpleasant about someone decent, and of course something wonderful about someone despicable. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com