tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post3609879670670161148..comments2024-03-28T21:41:32.110-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Thomases and HenriesGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-89467306462601722362018-01-07T18:00:12.032-05:002018-01-07T18:00:12.032-05:00First thing: the schism that split Christendom was...First thing: the schism that split Christendom wasn't Protestants vs Catholics (and even there he gets that wrong, because Luther kicked that stuff off in AD1517, and Henry VIII didn't do his thing until 20 years later, and if he'd managed to properly bribe the pope, it wouldn't have happened at all) but rather it was the split between Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Catholicism in AD1047. <br /><br />Second: His redefinition of the old testament convenants is pretty much "It means what I want it to" not what it actually says. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-63840259101023632362018-01-05T10:07:52.910-05:002018-01-05T10:07:52.910-05:00The author has put his finger on the central confl...The author has put his finger on the central conflict between freedom and obedience, and the problems it creates in people trying to work out how to live with each other's different views of the the obedience owed to God vs. temporal authorities. "Render unto Caesar" is a very difficult lesson, as is the tension between Christ the Lamb and Christ the Sword-wielder.<br /><br />I've always been drawn to C.S. Lewis's view, that fallen man is to broken a vessel to hold safely too much power over his fellow creatures--which doesn't mean for an instant that our duties to God and each other are less than absolute, no matter how we might thirst to be free of them.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-72421946875234763832018-01-05T02:54:44.913-05:002018-01-05T02:54:44.913-05:00Have you time to expand on that, Mr. Blair? I'...Have you time to expand on that, Mr. Blair? I'd be interested in hearing the expansion of that. It's well written, I'm not sure I'm totally with it, though.douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241790925053112959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-39401289183964573282018-01-04T22:58:47.772-05:002018-01-04T22:58:47.772-05:00I like his site.I like his site.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-69396737105415470362018-01-04T22:03:11.018-05:002018-01-04T22:03:11.018-05:00But it's wrong. Amazingly so.But it's wrong. Amazingly so. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-1346440968063543072018-01-04T16:16:25.477-05:002018-01-04T16:16:25.477-05:00Good piece.Good piece.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com