tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914592.post2152048528948079155..comments2024-02-21T14:18:09.212-08:00Comments on R World: Power, Poltics, Science & ReligionRon Davisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11972794876337195698noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914592.post-40338234674746114452007-05-09T10:21:00.000-07:002007-05-09T10:21:00.000-07:00This passion for preserving the spiritual, while e...This passion for preserving the spiritual, while enabling progress, is the thing that binds us.Chrlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17658592845808601075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914592.post-20987050359503662782007-05-09T08:55:00.000-07:002007-05-09T08:55:00.000-07:00Chrlane,Even churches evolve. I still hold to the ...Chrlane,<BR/>Even churches evolve. <BR/>I still hold to the faith I was raised in and it sounds like you and me share this determination to keep what is so valuable in that without dismissing the progress of science and society. Thus far, I've not seen the need to reject science or religion, only to rethink them both. It would be sad to think that I'd ever have to make it an OR rather than an AND between the two.Ron Davisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11972794876337195698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32914592.post-52075389941899307362007-05-09T08:41:00.000-07:002007-05-09T08:41:00.000-07:00Good post. I have no issue with the survival of th...Good post. I have no issue with the survival of the Church as an institution. I do, however, think this resistance to change is futile. If anything, they have more to lose from being obstinate than they do from changing in areas which have long stagnated.<BR/><BR/>Many of my values stem from the Catholicism which formed my earliest impressions of the World. But I am always innovating on the stuff that didn't work, because I want the good parts to live on.<BR/><BR/>I believe I am objective enough to discern universal issues from my personal challenges. I see where my own flaws end, and the institutional ones begin. <BR/><BR/>I would prefer if the Catholics respected that, because many of the ideals they taught me which enrich my life, are dying, and the World is a sadder place for it. Daily, I mourn the loss of Catholic ideals. I see so clearly that it is the implementation of these ideals which we must renew.Chrlanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17658592845808601075noreply@blogger.com