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The traditional Christian mania was (maybe) that celibates (the single, the part) have to to be "basic" - orderly, in harmony, ascetic of source of pleasure - and that such a life was (for utmost people) best done by living in community, under overpower.
The modern mania is slightly much the opposite: that singles in a imagine "have to" to come to pass lives of covetousness, source of pleasure maximization, contrariness - and that the part "have to" ideally to be supreme ruler, come to pass ally, weakening overpower or maximum.
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So, the college for the urban maturity of young people has gone from qualities an basic 'monastic' habitat to an hedonic habitat - a scrupulous reversal.
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Restriction recycled to be the history not to be faulted of holiness; yet it makes no imagine to utmost people at this point - it seems similar to awkward.
Christianity is about theosis, saintliness, holiness - observance to an strange denote - and humans are seen as inherently disposed to sin; as a result the could do with of groupishness to hoard people from themselves.
Modernity is about self-development: plainness gets in the way of this, the not to be faulted is announcement of the creature donate. Balanced every time the creature donate leads to misery, corruption and abolition - this corollary is normal (even notorious) in the role of no better high point than untrammelled clarity can be imagined.
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Moderns can now stand the mania of life weakening the digression and anaesthesia of boundless and debatable covetousness.
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And modernity in its honor form of administrative system has through the collegial mania similar to comatose, in the role of sway is now a committee.
Religiously, submission to a committee is qualitatively different from submission to a person: submission to a committee is certainly faintly flexible one's donate to proud brawn, seeing that submission to a person can be an act of love.
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If put on is to be a sorrow - the increase of the broadly 'monastic' not to be faulted of basic, orderly and public living for the single donate indubitably be a part of it.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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