tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post4719362592163871695..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: Blaming the Jews, Canonizing PilateMichael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-51124704100962649812008-03-23T15:10:00.000-05:002008-03-23T15:10:00.000-05:00"Putting away childish things" seems to me to dema..."Putting away childish things" seems to me to demand we put away superstition, magical thinking, fantastic illusions, and other childish beliefs. I enjoy Aesop's Fables, Greek Drama, and television/film, but I know these are stories, not facts, much less true.<BR/><BR/>Besides our sexuality, the only significant demarcation between childhood and an adult is reasoning. Saint Paul even urges, "Do not despise the words of prophets, <B>but test everything;</B> hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil."<BR/><BR/>How can one test the unknowable? How can one know the good that is unknowable? Taking his word for it? Well, if so, women must earn their salvation silently through childbearing, and homophiles are already condemned and "given up" by God to their debased thinking, as "evidence" of their sin of idolatry. <BR/><BR/>I think a critical test of those claims leaves much to be desired, but I don't make the rules. Who does? The believer-god who trumps the god of revelation selectively? Pat Robertson or Benedict XVI? They all seem to agree with Saint Paul. Unless one can contradict oneself, one cannot have it both ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-62663027843129841222008-03-20T23:14:00.000-05:002008-03-20T23:14:00.000-05:00The exegesis on the passion of Christ leaves no do...The exegesis on the passion of Christ leaves no doubt that Pilate seems more and more interested in freeing the prisoner, Jesus.<BR/><BR/>Yet, in my view that makes him all the more guilty. The fact is that the gospel of John makes him look convinced of Jesus' innocence, but he condemns him anyway! At least in the synoptics Pilate could be said to be invincibly ignorant. To me the culpability is all the more lamentable because he did know Christ to be innocent but condemned him anyway!<BR/><BR/>I wonder when the Church will apologize for persecuting gays through the centuries. JPII certainly went out of his way to pardon Galileo, beg the Jews for forgiveness, and just about every other group...funny...gays were never included. Hmmmm.....kevin57https://www.blogger.com/profile/01681985465980196347noreply@blogger.com