Two Additions to the Blogroll
Embryo Parson Posted on Friday, August 29, 2014 at 02:54PM I link these in keeping with the "Man-glicanism" and "Muscular Christianity" subjects to which this blog is occasionally concerned, and in opposition to the mindset, recently expressed by an Anglo-Catholic blogger, who is "not an advocate of 'muscular Christianity', and who "approach(es) (his) faith through beauty and love, through the way of the Romantics". (To his credit, he did say "enough is enough" with respect to ISIS and seems to understand the need to unleash a can of serious whoopass on these murdering barbarians. My high Anglo-Catholic friends here in Denver are hardly anti-muscular Christians. They drink, smoke, love women, collect firearms, shoot, and prepare. They may wear lace at Mass, but underneath their vestments are sidearms, nerves of steel and a resolve to go "loud" if necessary.)
Reader Comments (3)
I'm familiar with the blog you reference. Most of the commentators on the site are decidedly lacking in testosterone. If the pacifist attitudes of these "men" are the norm in Catholic Christianity the church is doomed. Where are the Knights Templars when we need them?
I do think the blog's owner and several commentators do betray an overly Romanticist and aestheticist worldview, but like I said, I have to give the blog owner credit for recognizing that killing people and breaking things are the only ways ISIS will be stopped. I would also say that there is more than one mode of manliness. Many men aren't fighters, but they don't consequently lose their "man card", for manliness can be manifested by other virtues (if you'll excuse that play on words).
Leon Podles et al. are correct, however: by and large the church has been disastrously feminized. It's time to take back the reins; time to pack a lethal weapon under that lace, as it were.
I've been "packing" my entire adult life. Now it's legal in my state to carry firearms in church (Is that the smell of gun powder or just rancid incense?)..........we'll be prepared when Mohamed's boys drop by for a lesson in eschatology.