Emile:
I know you are trying to be helpful, but it truly pains me that you believe all that crap. It is sanctimonious irrationality, my friend.
I shall respond directly to a few of your "points":
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Terrence---Things we do not understand often seem pitiful.
The Cross of Christ appears foolish to those walking outside
reality.
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Do not try to turn the table on me, Emile. Father Terrence and Galt can see through that ruse. I say things we often DO understand are pitiful, such as the bromides you fall back on, grasping them like a drowning man clutching at insubstantial reeds in a raging river (the river of illogical thought!). I am not outside reality. It is you who deny reality and have created a super-reality in a time and dimension that is beyond time and existance. . . in short, a place that does not exist except within the anguished hollows of your feverish mind.
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When all the noise and hurriedness of your life is put aside,
you must face your lack of peace, quietness. At those times,
your heart testifies to your emptiness and your sinfulness.
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My son, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? You sure do like to make assumptions, don't you? I have no lack of peacefulness nor any dearth of quiet times. I employ those times productively to ponder the great thoughts of great men, and to analyze the errors and twisted reasonings of all world religions and misguided philosophers such as Christ, Mohammed, Siddartha, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre and others.
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Even the empty words of Zarathustra, Aristotle and Milt
cannot dispel the horrible realization that you are lacking.
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I lack nothing. I am my own beginning, my own end, my own happiness, my own reason. Christ would've done well to study Aristotle, so would you. In fact, I challenge you to buy "Atlas Shrugged" and read it all from cover to cover. It may open your mind.
Then again, it may not because you sound like a clone of C. S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity" one of the most depraved books I have ever read (others on the condemned list include 'Das Kapital' and 'Mein Kampf').
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Altough we can at times deceive our minds, we cannot decieve
our hearts.
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Wake up, Emile. The heart is nothing but an eloquent muscle pumping blood through our circulatory system. The MIND is everything.
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Your heart tells you that you are incomplete, your heart
tells you that you are a sinner in need of redemption.
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Maybe your mind tells you that, not mine! No wonder you've been brainwashed. Could it be in your genes?
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In my youth, I also tried the road that you have taken and found
it wanting. It leads to greater and greater darkness. Nietzsche
also tried that dark path but the darkness of his "brilliant intellect"
blinded him to the utter darkness of his path. At the end, the darkness
consumed both him and his dark light.
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Nietzsche is a long ways from Ayn Rand. His terrible philosophy drove him insane -- if you tried to follow him, no wonder you gave up your mind and became a bible-totin' Christian, from the irrational frying pan into the metaphisically corrupt fire.
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You have been brave and have tried formal and dead Christianity and found it wanting.
You have been brave and tried many of the other dead and empty religions and
have failed to find righteousness and peace.
Now, I invite you to be brave and try the power and the simplicity of the Cross of Jesus.
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Emile, I was raised a Christian, questioned it and rejected it a long time ago. Shows you how much you know about me. . . Zilch!
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I wear no crown, and will put a crown on no one. All monarchies, theocracies and dictatorships are immoral and I will fight them every way I can. Free individual men and women respecting the rights of each other is the only true, rational society that can ever exist amongst thinking beings.
Father Terrence |
