Catholicism
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In a 2021 interview, Ian MacKaye, the frontman of the hardcore band Minor Threat, explained that the “straight edge” lifestyle—consisting in the rejection of drugs, alcohol, and other excesses—was initially based on practical considerations rather than rigid moral prescriptions. And indeed, MacKaye proclaims in the song “Out of Step”: “This is no set of rules,…
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Qui autem te per contemtum mundanorum et carnis mortificationem sequuntur, vere sapientes esse cognoscuntur, quia de vanitate ad veritatem, et de carne ad spiritum transferuntur. Those who follow you by loathing worldly goods and mortifying their flesh will be known as wise, because they pass from vanity to truth, from the flesh to the spirit.…
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οὐ δεῖ παραδόσεσιν ἀνθρώπων ἀκολουθεῖν ἐπ’ ἀθετήσει ἐντολῆς Θεοῦ (Basil the Great, Moralia XII, 2) How is it possible that Christianity, a Galilean insurrectionary movement fighting against political oppression and religious corruption through spiritual transformation, has turned into the political ideology of a dominantly Western, conservative, and right-winged population? What is the historical development that…
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Paul Tillich writes, in his Systematic Theology: “A group, whether a family or mankind as a whole, does not participate in the effects of the New Being.” (I, 87) The family is meaningful, but it is not a Christian value—it is no ultimate. It is remarkable that, in the history of Christianity, one of the…
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