tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post6387090466679084592..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: The Pope on Modern Culture and ChristianityFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-65301447490147711982006-10-20T10:30:00.000+01:002006-10-20T10:30:00.000+01:00Love in the theology of Benedict is the ultimate a...Love in the theology of Benedict is the ultimate act of communication, the ultimate Truth, the ultimate Revelation of God and the act of human disclosure.<br /><br />Love and Truth therefore are inseperable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-49691855458039722072006-10-19T22:58:00.000+01:002006-10-19T22:58:00.000+01:00God IS love (That's it! if one goes for the briefe...God IS love (That's it! if one goes for the briefest summary --- a bit more if not...)<br />denial of the objective reality of the 'IS' clouds our vision and limits the experience of true love in every dimension of our lives..without all being referenced to this reality our communication is then limited..we cannot speak the language of love -a deceit distorts our communication and perception of the real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-43035328899058405472006-10-19T21:03:00.000+01:002006-10-19T21:03:00.000+01:00To follow Father's suggestion about points for bre...To follow Father's suggestion about points for brevity, Neal, well done!<br /><br />I think, for you, <i>douze points!</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-46353556309155981222006-10-19T18:21:00.000+01:002006-10-19T18:21:00.000+01:00Michael, I do not think that Fiona needs to be tri...Michael, I do not think that Fiona needs to be trivialised or patronised, everyone realises that Relativism goes back to the Enlightenment and beyond.<br />The point being made was that it has reached a certain highpoint in the Blair administration, at least in this country.<br />I am sure that one could point to similar high points in France and certainly in Bellasconni's Italy.<br />The subject isn't Blair, and certainly not Thatcher but Relativism and this Pope's speech.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-49573836903522554362006-10-19T17:42:00.000+01:002006-10-19T17:42:00.000+01:00What I noticed has nothing to do with Tony Blair, ...What I noticed has nothing to do with Tony Blair, but with the Holy Father's remark that God has been excluded from public life, reminiscent of Pope Pius XI's encyclical <i>Quas Primas</i> on the Kingship of Christ.<br /><br />The relativity of truth isn't something that Tony Blair invented - it started in all probability before my grandfather was born.<br /><br />Blair just has the misfortune to have a name that is an anagram of B.Liar. When I was an eight-year-old in primary school we had a Secretary of State called Margaret Thatcher whose name happened to rhyme with Milk Snatcher. Some of it was mine.<br /><br />When I was nine months short of voting age she became Britain's only Prime Minister whose name rhymes with Job Snatcher.<br /><br />But what's interesting is that she voted for Leo Abse's Bill to decriminalise homosexual acts, <i>and</i> for David Steel's Bill to decriminalise abortion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-89429236159938124422006-10-19T17:34:00.000+01:002006-10-19T17:34:00.000+01:00There is also something about the quik fix of same...There is also something about the quik fix of same sex relationships, they satisfy the individual (possibly), but as we can see in Brighton they have knock on effects, they sexualise society, they damage the idea of family, they are ultimately sterile. They take away from the biblical notion of the duty to marry and to procreate as part of the essential of being human.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-65620824224961178522006-10-19T16:35:00.000+01:002006-10-19T16:35:00.000+01:00This is not a summary, Father, but a connection to...This is not a summary, Father, but a connection to the Bogle on Blair article.<br />In your summary you speak about the relativity of Truth, if anything that has been the great mark of the Blair era, in everything from the lies which proceeded the entrance into Bush's war with Iraq, with Campbell and Mandleson and the whole spin culture. <br />In my family we call him the Father of Lies, I see lots of t shirts which say B.Liar, with his picture. <br />I do not say this to be offensive but merely to point out a common contempt that seems to be currency of ordinary people, especially the young, for him and politics. This results in their disengagement from politics and ultimately from society.<br />I think in part, this is what the Pope is saying or at least an illustration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com