PoMo Examples from Church

Rob,

I read with rapt attention your comments and up until the end, I held out hope. But, since we all are infected with PoMo anti-bodies, what are we to do? It reminds me of the failed attempts at boycotting the purveyors of sin, the corporate supporters of Planned Parenthood, organized gambling, etc. Where else shall we go?

Aldous Huxley in his Brave New World Revisted set the final combatants as Over-organization vs. the Catholic Church. He seemed right on the mark.

It seems to be playing out that way. Only problem is that another prophecy is also playing out---the fact that the weeds will be growing up alongside the wheat and they will not be pulled, prior to the harvest.

Riz

As the old preacher would say "First you got to get em lost before you can get em saved." PoMo is the natural result of a century of Modernism. And while GK Chesterton could still point out in 1911 the dangers of Modernism to a pre-Modern society, we don't have that luxury anymore. We have become the maniac in the asylum, to use his analogy. CS Lewis wrote to a different generation, the WWII generation, and yet could still reference a pre-Modernist (such as the character Dr. Kirk), though portrayed as old and soon to be gone. But whom do we refer to? Everyone born before WWI is dead, even most of the WWII generation is gone.

So the first step is the AA step, admit who we are, and why we have failed. Then we can begin to look for help. And following directions again is a good place to start. Forget what you have been taught, forget all the lectures on "the real meaning of ...", and just become like a little child, following directions. It's embarrassing to start over again, to throw away a century of work, but sometimes it is impossible to undo a tangle, a mistake, a mess, and we just need to start over from the beginning. "Behold, I make all things new."