tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post5651043702940238368..comments2024-03-23T09:59:53.293+00:00Comments on LINEN ON THE HEDGEROW: How do you evangelise a Zombie?Richard Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10826907710570316952noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-85392014092368224802011-12-23T12:23:05.290+00:002011-12-23T12:23:05.290+00:00Social policy is what we need to get away from! Th...Social policy is what we need to get away from! The government needs to back off and let families raise their own children. These children are the ultimate success story of a culture of control, surveillance and manipulation. They are mass produced humanity, fit to become a unit of production, a 'human resource' that will be controlled by managers and bureaucrats. They will provide a comfortable living for hundreds of government employees throughout their miserable lives, as they are pushed from one agency to another, being classified, medicated and manipulated by one set of experts who will then pass them on to another set to diagnose the 'behavioural problems' that were caused by the first gang. We've got to claim our lives back: embrace Mother Church and reject the Nanny State. And change is only going to come one person, one family at a time.<br />To look for grand initiatives from the top down is to play into the hands of the system that got us into the mess we are in. Sadly, too often, the hierarchy has aped the secular system, and bishops have become bureaucrats instead of shepherds. So we're not likely to get any lead from them.Anthony Radicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02604899095747004651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-49113362610780366092011-12-01T00:49:14.653+00:002011-12-01T00:49:14.653+00:00I think some of these zombiefied young people are ...I think some of these zombiefied young people are suffering from a neurological deficit as a consequence of poor attachment in infancy and childhood. It is very tragic.<br /> One thing which would make a significant difference to young people would be to restore to marriage and motherhood the special status that they once enjoyed. This would, of course, require a radical change in social policy .Clare@ BattlementsOfRubieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13672603563016876943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-89814348085148146512011-11-30T09:45:02.722+00:002011-11-30T09:45:02.722+00:00I'll look forward to reading your further thou...I'll look forward to reading your further thoughts on this. When I started to attend Mass, one of the pleasing things that struck me was the greater variety of types of people in the congregation compared to the (rather polite) Anglicanism I had come from. Part of the solution strikes me as the 'thinginess' of Catholicism: it offers (and should offer) things -sacraments, sacramentals etc- rather than just words. Also the immediate, childish (childlike?) appeal of glittery things. Banks look special. Courts look special. Why shouldn't Churches and priests look special too?Lazarushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3682550116445790117.post-67768124855773692812011-11-30T08:58:14.705+00:002011-11-30T08:58:14.705+00:00I think the way that the institutional Church has ...I think the way that the institutional Church has tried to answer this in the past is by trying to make Faith fit the culture. In other words, they took cultural "things" and made them "Faithful."<br /><br />It doesn't work, or at least it hasnt. The only way I have seen such evangelization take place is when the culture is juxtaposed with what the Church teaches, and the zombies are shown an antidote for their disease. But like any good zombie, they dont think, and doing nothing is easier than doing something... so you must show then that what is offered is hope and something better. That is the hard part, because many who evangelize dont understand why the zombies are the way that they are.Joe @ Defend Us In Battlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15230524215323916396noreply@blogger.com