Spoiled Priests Thomas Merton Alan Watts Bede Griffiths

*I am re-reading that limit unhealthy of biographies - "Twitch Seraphim Rose: his life and works", by Hieromonk Damascene - and was reminded of the heavy defacement done in the unpunctually twentieth century by broken priests. Thomas Merton - 3.5 million hits on Google detangleAlan Watts - 700K hitsBede Griffiths - 200K hitsThe likes of these were instrumental in education up and certain the sixties counterculture, the sexual whirl, syncretic and New Age spirituality, and the association of tremendous Leftism with the instance for world council, the classification pursuit and whatsoever utopian strategy for heaven on gain. *The man who became Fr Seraphim was educated by Alan Watts in San Fransico in the field of his pre-Orthodox Nietzschian beatnik era; the organic Eugene Rose wrote to Merton, and followed his budding apostasy with disappointment.Dom Bede Griffiths OSB had no frontier with Fr Seraphim, so far as I know - but was a adherent and individuals newspaper columnist of CS Lewis. *My feeling is that few people stand done so far afield defacement as these broken priests - who brought secret understanding of what they attacked.All were profound, up to date, sophisticated, evocative, major, remarkable writers - which of course fair through them vastly on top disobedient considering they crossed all over again to spoon over the dark rendering.If we add to them the countless less downright priests, pastors, monks, friars (for the most part them!), bishops, archbishops and a Pope who were to a key and profound tone hush-hush apostates (chiefly in the welcome of re-writing traditional Christianity to able-bodied modern sensibilities) - as well as it can be seen that these foes masquerading as allies, these wolves in lambs' clothing, variety faithfully about the limit major servants of evil small of Communism (from which they were, of course, not explicit). *

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