Saturday, January 15, 2011

Thoughts on taxes, schools, the Church

Yes, I agree that this is a double taxation without representation. If you homeschool or send kids to a charter, Christian, Catholic school you should not be having to support the statist schools. As to nominalism in the Church, both Catholic and Protestant, I agree. In Catholicism I think the reason that one sees much of this is cultural. So many that attend, attend only because they grew up with the charge that one needs to attend church. Even when one has stopped believing one still attends. But there are many strong believers. I belong to a men's group that is very strong. I know seminarians who I find to have a substantial holiness about them. I know priests that I believe are as firm in the faith as the martyrs. But to someone on the outside looking in it does seem lukewarm. This is again from seeing so many who are really fleeing the faith. When one is on the inside one sees the fervency. EWTN (EWTN.com) is an amazing television network (also radio) that is the real deal. I've come to believe that the early church began in ecclesiology and doctrinally Catholic. But all that to say, I respect and applaud much in Evangelicalism: the respect and love for Scripture (although I see presently that this is not as strong as it was a generation ago); being Christocentric; zeal in evangelism. Many good points. But I see that there is first a disunity about many things: baptism, divorce, contraception, abortion, women pastors, etc. In the Catholic church it is a unity of belief at least in Rome if not among the general Catholic audience.

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