I'd like to start by apologising for commenting on an old article. It came across my feed, and after reading it and all the comments, I feel it is my obligation to add one other factor that is partially covered in your article by you section on secularism and politics.
For context, I was raised as an atheist in the UK to native Brits,…
I'd like to start by apologising for commenting on an old article. It came across my feed, and after reading it and all the comments, I feel it is my obligation to add one other factor that is partially covered in your article by you section on secularism and politics.
For context, I was raised as an atheist in the UK to native Brits, and converted to Catholicism at the age of 22 after attending a protestant church briefly.
As Dave Greene has commented, modern-day progressivism or liberalism is a protestant heresy. In the history of the Church, when a heresy/rival doctrinal belief becomes predominant, it hollows out and replaces the original church, as seen briefly with Arianism and with the First and Second Byzantine Iconoclast periods. Liberalism has so thoroughly hollowed out the protestant churches I visited in the UK, it offered nothing except the currently dominant ideology of the world.
It's not arguments, but the 'vibe', that initially draws people to a sect/church. If I was seeking transcendental truth, and the church I attended was offering worldly platitudes based on a paradigm that has now failed in the West, how could I believe that said church could elevate my soul to the transcendental? This is why I was drawn to Catholicism and Orthodoxy instead.
Sir,
I'd like to start by apologising for commenting on an old article. It came across my feed, and after reading it and all the comments, I feel it is my obligation to add one other factor that is partially covered in your article by you section on secularism and politics.
For context, I was raised as an atheist in the UK to native Brits, and converted to Catholicism at the age of 22 after attending a protestant church briefly.
As Dave Greene has commented, modern-day progressivism or liberalism is a protestant heresy. In the history of the Church, when a heresy/rival doctrinal belief becomes predominant, it hollows out and replaces the original church, as seen briefly with Arianism and with the First and Second Byzantine Iconoclast periods. Liberalism has so thoroughly hollowed out the protestant churches I visited in the UK, it offered nothing except the currently dominant ideology of the world.
It's not arguments, but the 'vibe', that initially draws people to a sect/church. If I was seeking transcendental truth, and the church I attended was offering worldly platitudes based on a paradigm that has now failed in the West, how could I believe that said church could elevate my soul to the transcendental? This is why I was drawn to Catholicism and Orthodoxy instead.
Yours sincerely,
Bede