tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post7689571717897098577..comments2024-03-12T16:53:52.795-04:00Comments on Crypto-Catholic Libertine: Taking Francis seriously: "I invite all Christians"Jules Aiméhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262535377454858987noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2696956101824934089.post-85798790132655568062013-12-11T15:46:29.976-05:002013-12-11T15:46:29.976-05:00Yeah, I agree that this is more than boilerplate. ...Yeah, I agree that this is more than boilerplate. When I was younger I was incredibly resistant to talk about the "personal encounter with Jesus Christ"--to me it sounded sentimental, anti-intellectual, and, compared to my own experience of life, almost fake. I mean, I didn't argue with people about it, I just got reallllly skeptical whenever I heard people talking in these terms. On the other hand I was obsessed with the more "abstract" side of religion--not only rules (though rules had something to do with it), but more abstract intellectual issues having to do with the existence of god (generic god), what religion meant in an abstract sense (i.e. are religious ideas and ideological ideas two different things or just different ways of stating the same thing?), etc.<br />Now I have come around to the importance of the personal side of Christianity... and it almost sounds stupid to say that! After all, shouldn't it have been obvious to me all along?Gaiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11691006770731341338noreply@blogger.com