tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post6685776098037137468..comments2024-03-28T00:01:43.037-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: SanityGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21935860026593709312020-08-18T16:28:03.847-04:002020-08-18T16:28:03.847-04:00I wonder what GK Chesterton would have made of the...I wonder what GK Chesterton would have made of the possible gap between the 'coolly rational' Communist Chinese, vs the (can we agree not rational) mystical Climate Change and SJ Warrior inchoate horde. <br /><br />Would Mr Chesterton quail now at just how narrow the gate, difficult the way. Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802917951262300609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-61885131654803574642020-08-10T20:02:21.073-04:002020-08-10T20:02:21.073-04:00Ooof. I almost don't want to get into it on wh...Ooof. I almost don't want to get into it on why I think Chesterton is misreading Roman religion and society, but thinking that the Romans (of what period even?) as a group thought that the Gods were fables, is well, just plain wrong. <br /><br />But don't take my word for it. Pulling 5 books off my shelves, you can start with Robert Turcan's "The Cults of the Roman Empire", Robert Wilken's "The Christians as the Romans saw them", Tim Whitmarsh's "Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World", Ramsay Macmullen's "Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centruries", and if you really want some mind bending, David Ulansey's "The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World". And I"m not even going to start on source materiel. <br /><br />It's a huge freakin' subject. Eric Blairnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-34823329756922608062020-08-08T12:42:38.778-04:002020-08-08T12:42:38.778-04:00AVI, as I was reading this Chesterton passage I to...AVI, as I was reading this Chesterton passage I too was thinking of Lewis, who so clearly felt their influence. It had a very Lewis-like feel to me, not only from his religious essays but from his fiction. Especially the passage in "That Hideous Strength," when Jane Stoddard is advised to look to Christianity to transform the chaotic primal power of sex and fertility, so that it suits her modern fastidiousness, without jettisoning its proper power, which was rendering her and her marriage so barren.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-65361110427587602542020-08-08T09:55:17.497-04:002020-08-08T09:55:17.497-04:00Interesting. I'll have to think on that.Interesting. I'll have to think on that.Joel Leggetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588696436907032078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-21960090248191231452020-08-07T16:10:03.042-04:002020-08-07T16:10:03.042-04:00CS Lewis wrote about related topics several times,...CS Lewis wrote about related topics several times, of which I pick one at random; long, but including most of his thought: https://virtueonline.org/christian-apologetics-cs-lewis-1945 <br />The influence of Chesterton is as strong on this topic as anything else he wrote, and those who liked your quote by GKC will enjoy toggling back and forth between them.<br /><br />There is no escape for Christians. Some of us prefer a religion of intellect but are continually forced back into experiences of emotion and frank paganism. Some prefer a religion of feelings but are shoved into Bible studies, intellectual ambiguities, and reflections on history and philosophy. <br /><br />Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-90873491838691135252020-08-06T16:31:57.181-04:002020-08-06T16:31:57.181-04:00State religion, what he calls god of gov.
The tru...State religion, what he calls god of gov.<br /><br />The true epic has yet to be unveiledymarsakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-63817287492245993892020-08-06T09:00:45.696-04:002020-08-06T09:00:45.696-04:00That's a fascinating idea.That's a fascinating idea.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-47343475712970382842020-08-06T00:25:03.797-04:002020-08-06T00:25:03.797-04:00Chesterton saw farther than almost anyone. Chesterton saw farther than almost anyone. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com