tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post1454616420558215596..comments2023-10-26T01:54:35.116-07:00Comments on Guerilla Orthodoxy: Letter to a Right Wing NationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-87781367749931787002009-11-22T06:27:06.654-08:002009-11-22T06:27:06.654-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-17399127024967164032009-06-30T22:15:52.631-07:002009-06-30T22:15:52.631-07:00Sampson said: " I am anti-death penalty, and ...Sampson said: " I am anti-death penalty, and favor eliminating the stigma attached to homosexual people in society and in the church."<br /><br />I, too, am against the death penalty; the other part of your statement, however, I believe to be in GREAT error.<br /><br />C.S. Lewis said: "It is possible to have so much sympathy for a sinner that you join him in his rebellion against God."<br /><br />As Orthodox we cannot affirm their immorality or their unions. They don't need affirmation - they need healing.Robert, the sinnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-32785442505028322372008-09-20T09:26:00.000-07:002008-09-20T09:26:00.000-07:00pleeease start posting again. i implore you.pleeease start posting again. i implore you.sethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18141867383294485839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-40294632048113856042008-07-04T19:11:00.000-07:002008-07-04T19:11:00.000-07:00Wow, I'm glad there is at least one of you out the...Wow, I'm glad there is at least one of you out there.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10637005289236911088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-88817483939901543792008-01-10T08:18:00.000-08:002008-01-10T08:18:00.000-08:00This may be my new favorite blog. I knew there ha...This may be my new favorite blog. I knew there had to be another Orthodox leftist out there. <BR/><BR/>As for the abortion thing, I find Ruairi's comment to be unsettlingly Manichaean. But that's just me.David J. Dunn, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15306166386345399066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-62432480804630243032007-10-19T13:52:00.000-07:002007-10-19T13:52:00.000-07:00Sampson - I came across your blog while writing on...Sampson - I came across your blog while writing one on Amos, thus finding, via Google, your "Ruin of Joseph" entry from 2005.<BR/><BR/>Having written intermittently at my own blog, I can understand your situation. I hope you will get back to it again and be able to write more frequently.<BR/><BR/>Contrary to what Ruari wrote, I think your approach to abortion is on the mark. If things will start to change for the better only after everyone "makes the right decisions and follows God's law every day", then things will never change. Instead, if we ever get to "perfection", it will be by loving in spite of imperfections -- by not stoning the adulterers, for example. Otherwise, we kill love by loving doctrine too much.Brother Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01086905363199921064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-42123956135487295962007-06-07T20:15:00.000-07:002007-06-07T20:15:00.000-07:00Encore! Encore! Encore!Encore! Encore! Encore!Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-58349954388808858032007-05-21T08:09:00.000-07:002007-05-21T08:09:00.000-07:00Hey Sampson, you should start postying again. I ju...Hey Sampson, you should start postying again. I just found your blog doing a google search for Orthodox Action. Its really refreshing to find progressive voices in the Orthodoc church and on the internet if you give this up it would be a real loss. <BR/><BR/>Chris RooneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-48325578777380305872007-05-06T10:21:00.000-07:002007-05-06T10:21:00.000-07:00I don't believe for a moment women have abortions ...I don't believe for a moment women have abortions because they are poor and desperate - they have abortions because they were too lazy and too feckless not to get pregnant at the wrong time and that is not a function of wealth or class. As for the stigma attached to homosexuality - what makes that different from other sin?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-75433013947736348552007-03-27T01:28:00.000-07:002007-03-27T01:28:00.000-07:00I think I may have dropped my link to your blog wh...I think I may have dropped my link to your blog when there was nothing here, but I've found it again, and relinked so I can come here easily. <BR/><BR/>You might also like to look at <A HREF="http://www.mybloglog.com" REL="nofollow">MyBlogLog</A> as an interesting way of not only linking to similar blogs, but seeing recent vistors and being reminded thus to visit their blogs.Steve Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-21095973334872812962007-03-08T16:18:00.000-08:002007-03-08T16:18:00.000-08:00Sampson - I found your blog through Kevin Basil's ...Sampson - I found your blog through Kevin Basil's blog (so you've still some other non-Super Right Wing blogs linking to you). I also liked that your post mimicked Sam Harris' book (which I liked, but whom I do not think is as good of a thinker as he could be if he would just drop his hatred - a lesson for us all, I expect). <BR/><BR/>To Ruairi - I applaud you for leaving your email address on this post. I would urge you to get a blogger ID, though, because you're now exposed to lots of nasty programs that spider all over the web and snatch up unsuspecting e-mail addresses. <BR/><BR/>The question that Ruairi brings up is worthy of an inter-blog chain discussion. We all know that we have "free will" (I'm a bit wary that you put that in Capital Letters, Ruairi), and that we are called to give account for our actions (does it not say, though, that we will not speak at this event?). The question of how our decisions are mediated to us is an interesting one, and it may turn out that though our actions are "free," they are only free within a matrix of historically conditioned potentialities. I'm not saying this because I have a liking for the ideology behind it, I'm saying it because it would seem that good empirical research bears it out. Dogmas about our freedom and our responsibility before the Master do not translate de-facto into particular positive theories about what it means to be free (and what, therefore, we should do about various political possibilities). The dogmas of the Church are _negative_, that is, they give a _boundary_ to the life of the Church and her vision. It sounds like you want to say, Ruairi, that our freedom is simply unaffected by our history and our context and our character - that we are all endowed with a certain "distance" from our own actions to see them clearly, as though from the perspective of some higher plane that is unaffected by these contingencies and able to see without being muddied by them. I think we all know that grace can break in at any moment, because all things were made through Christ and thus, carry within themselves a messianic potency, but that doesn't mean that they don't have their concrete characteristics, and corresponding inhibiting (or enabling) qualities. <BR/><BR/>What do you all think?Abba Poemen the Ubermenschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03915169381392100130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-72299547836688554472007-02-20T20:34:00.000-08:002007-02-20T20:34:00.000-08:00Hi, I found your blog through a link and read your...Hi, I found your blog through a link and read your "Letter to a Right Wing Nation" My inital reaction to reading the title was that we actually live in a very liberal "Left Wing" nation. I am still trying to digest your comments on abortion and its relationship to the social climate of a society. Here is my take: There is Right and there is Wrong. There is no sliding scale of morals, and I don't feel we should make attribute any "cause" to abortion other than poor immoral choice. Asides from the socio-economic climate that person lives in they still make personal choices with the Free Will the Lord has given us. These choices apply to all areas "Should I have casual premarital sex?", "Should I have an abortion?" , or "Should I choose to Share my wealth that the Lord has blessed me with?". We can look at these issues on the Macro level but there are still personal choices to be made in day to day life on the Micro level that we will be judged for. I think the answer lies with everyone on the Micro Level, everyone has to ask themselves "Is the decison I am about to make Right or Wrong?" If everyone make the right decisions and follows God's laws everyday then an only then can the society, country or world start to change. Even if someone finds themselves living in a less that favorable socioeconomic climate they are still responsable for their own actions and must make the right decisions regardless of their surroundings.<BR/><BR/>Christ Is Among Us<BR/><BR/>RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-7442389001827998902007-01-16T03:48:00.000-08:002007-01-16T03:48:00.000-08:00Sampson, I am so glad you are back among us. Near...Sampson, I am so glad you are back among us. Nearly fell over when I saw the link courtesy of Steve Hayes. My blogging is rather intermittent at the moment. Since you left, I have found my way into full time employment. Quite a miracle at my age. Currently a number of social justice issues are taking up my time away from papid work: home care for people who are aged and people who have disabilities; encouraging social justice practice in the church; researching common lands in Australia; and getting a handle on the private life - not the public life - of Jesus from the scriptures. As well I am assisting a friend by doing a bit of proofreading on his PhD. I look forward to popping in from time to time and reading what you have to say. God's richest blessings on you and yours.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05972285659958872775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-37716214646893589442007-01-09T12:51:00.000-08:002007-01-09T12:51:00.000-08:00I'm glad you are back, Sampson. You've been greatl...I'm glad you are back, Sampson. You've been greatly missed.<br /><br />(deleted and reposted to correct my spelling, sorry about that.)Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645484704486562810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8228005.post-63820912159546997132007-01-09T12:48:00.000-08:002007-01-09T12:48:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02645484704486562810noreply@blogger.com