tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post5661620102465316517..comments2024-03-27T10:13:30.647-04:00Comments on Bug's Eye View: Feed My SheepThe Bughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07509037206264761261noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-18363306512265435992010-06-18T17:52:05.823-04:002010-06-18T17:52:05.823-04:00Thank you, alter ego! I simply wasn't thinkin...Thank you, alter ego! I simply wasn't thinking in those terms, and so I am most grateful for your comment. Given my love for books, how can I not love cathedrals, giant books of a sort, spelling out scripture and theology in text the masses could "read." Lovely image! I confess to falling into the historians' trap of presentism on occasion. Thanks for the reminder. I, too,Carolina Lintheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-47308152308700370432010-06-18T13:51:25.653-04:002010-06-18T13:51:25.653-04:00A hearty AMEN to this repudiation of Big Butter Je...A hearty AMEN to this repudiation of Big Butter Jesus. I always cringed whenever driving by... I can think of MANY better ways to spend the money they'll (ab)use to rebuild it. *sigh* Too much stridency and noise fill the "religious airways" today. The Bible says they will know we are Christians by our love, not by our Big Butter Jesus statues. Great post!Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13256552315634307734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-29336327143756287602010-06-18T08:04:56.350-04:002010-06-18T08:04:56.350-04:00First... BRAVO on this post. You had me with the t...First... BRAVO on this post. You had me with the title, and of course the pictures of sheep, but the content is brilliant and resonates with many my own quibbles with some of our brethren in faith. Excellent! <br /><br />Now, in defense of cathedrals (not to belabor this, but here I am). The early cathedrals were not monuments to anyone but God. Their design is entirely based in theology, and altar egohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11564052536173244610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-5820800988121747352010-06-17T17:10:37.380-04:002010-06-17T17:10:37.380-04:00Elegance started its death with the French Revolut...Elegance started its death with the French Revolution and received a huge hit with the Stalinist one. That's a paraphrase from Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus.<br /><br />All art before then was made through societal suffering--bad workrooms, abysmal slavery, toadying. It was made for ostentatious upper class by a miserable low class and yet it is all beautiful. <br /><br />This art also Ann T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11128699035211561119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-61853994138196066152010-06-17T14:32:43.205-04:002010-06-17T14:32:43.205-04:00Dr. M on cathedrals: as enduring, continuously ins...Dr. M on cathedrals: as enduring, continuously inspiring works of art, pinnacles of architecture, and expressions of community zeal, yes, they belong in a whole different category from a giant lump of sculpted Styrofoam. I do think there are occasional modern structures that stand comparison: Robert Shuler’s Crystal Cathedral, for example. That is *one* inspiring space, and a pinnacle of modern Carolina Lintheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16335905555994442416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-50171768612970166082010-06-17T14:14:38.368-04:002010-06-17T14:14:38.368-04:00I didn't hear about this statue, but loved hea...I didn't hear about this statue, but loved hearing your feelings about it. I happen to be a Catholic convert and my Aunt who searched most of her life for the "one true church" commented to me that converting to Catholism was the worst thing I could do. I think mostly because of a false belief that they worship statues. I have been a Catholic now for over 20 years, and I have Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373560689980768576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-18785650432898259052010-06-17T13:55:25.084-04:002010-06-17T13:55:25.084-04:00Thank you for this post Bug
(or/and Dr M). I can...Thank you for this post Bug <br />(or/and Dr M). I cannot wonder what Jesus's reaction to so much pretention would have been if he walked the earth today. The Jesus that I have come to know and love, was a very simple and humble person while on earth. I guess I am just a very old fashioned kind of Christian for I do not begin to understand all the pretentiousness around Christianity A human kind of humanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12944399986334367708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-66787374590909189112010-06-17T13:20:16.324-04:002010-06-17T13:20:16.324-04:00Great post! I'm reading Karen Armstrong's ...Great post! I'm reading Karen Armstrong's "Case for God" right now. She makes the point that until the Enlightenment Theologians made it a point to say that we could never understand God because any understanding we might have of God would be of our own making. We would turn God into an idol. I think that is what a lot of those evenglicals you talk about have done. Jesus is not Katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610117543051640146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-88497468119559549572010-06-17T13:11:30.721-04:002010-06-17T13:11:30.721-04:00Interesting take on the "bigger Jesus than th...Interesting take on the "bigger Jesus than thou thing". I agree with Jo, in that the American mega church stuff can't be considered in the same category with the art of historical churches and cathedrals of Europe.Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-54863142831586484072010-06-17T12:58:00.923-04:002010-06-17T12:58:00.923-04:00I agree with every word you say here, except the r...I agree with every word you say here, except the reference to cathedrals. I believe cathedrals are the house of God. I very much feel God's presence whenever I am in a Cathedral. I have been in Westminster Abby, Salisbury Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral and Notre Dame Cathedral. In every one I felt very close to God.<br /><br />I am a spiritual person, but not necessarily a religious Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03382221688268676914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-2938372412034763322010-06-17T11:47:13.200-04:002010-06-17T11:47:13.200-04:00Dear The Bug, and Dr. M,
I love to read a well-rea...Dear The Bug, and Dr. M,<br />I love to read a well-reasoned post and a call back to the essentials in life. <br /><br />I agree with so much here. The one quibble I may have, is with the cathedrals. They may have been built for mis-stated reasons . . . I think so in many cases . . . and yet they do represent a community effort at Workmanship (not just a community effort for donations). They alsoAnn T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11128699035211561119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2686754906089902443.post-11000857201986542132010-06-17T09:49:08.668-04:002010-06-17T09:49:08.668-04:00Wow!! Fantastic post. Lots to think about. Thanks....Wow!! Fantastic post. Lots to think about. Thanks.Reya Mellickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13076092659507965666noreply@blogger.com