tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501575778816779507.post1981608818230310941..comments2023-07-02T08:54:05.632-07:00Comments on Confessions of a Catholic Cybertronian.: Time to Grow Up and Kill off OptimusmastroOptimusmastrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12831854027284027308noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501575778816779507.post-3886496080286469822014-01-17T20:48:24.182-08:002014-01-17T20:48:24.182-08:00THere is no chance of me becoming 'hippie'...THere is no chance of me becoming 'hippie'... I just need to work on my own call to Holiness! :)Optimusmastrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12831854027284027308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501575778816779507.post-49821046549342436772014-01-17T10:57:25.651-08:002014-01-17T10:57:25.651-08:00I am quite relieved you got rid of OptimusMastro. ...I am quite relieved you got rid of OptimusMastro. You're going to be a Father. You don't need to be hanging on to the things of youth. Our culture needs to learn to grow up. <br /><br />I realize that there are a lot of people out there who have not met the risen Christ. It's a good thing to reach the heart. Nevertheless, I think there's a rush to dump the intellectual aspects of spreading the faith. It's not either/or it's EVERYTHING. I fear that in the rush to love everyone, the intellectual side will be abandoned, when the resistance barely got started. I think today's Catholic apologetics have only begun to scratch the surface of today's intellectual problems. The argument isn't over the Crusades or the Inquisiton, necessary as it is to explain those episodes. It's about: why should I believe in metaphysics? [It's not articulated that way, but that's not what it boils down to.] What proof is there that there is a spiritual world? Why should I believe in a soul? In my debates on abortion, I see that people are more and more denying the intrinsic value of humanity. We're all just a bunch of animals--biochemical machines-- and rights aren't based on any special human nature, but on those things we demand that government recognized in our own self-serving needs. I struggle with how to communicate these ideas because they are so necessary to our world.<br /><br />So love people, by all means. Just please don't go all hippy on us, okay? We need "rigid" priests. I think it was St. Jean Vianney who said priests need to be lions in the pulpits and lambs in the confessional. Please be a lion. You can tell people they're going to hell if they don't repent (nicely) and still love them. We need all kinds of people, but I don't think there is a shortage of "nice" priests. We need priests who tell it like it is.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15038275826830875246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8501575778816779507.post-81025206750839008162014-01-16T16:39:13.260-08:002014-01-16T16:39:13.260-08:00Sorry Marco, but I am in disagreement with your sp...Sorry Marco, but I am in disagreement with your spiritual director. I do not see OptimusMastro as what you see. I see him as a representation of the Almighty Optimus Prime, great and wise defender of the good of the Universe, with great powers and a hero and fighter for the right. I also see him as referring to that part of childhood, where we come into life with faith and hope, believe the world is good, and go about it happy. Superheroes ... we need more of them. <br /><br />BTW, reading your blog through your seminary portion, I do not personally think you were turning into a "little monster." I thought you were just being straight up and proper in the Faith, unlike numbers of today's clergy still floating in the land of "peace and love and Hippie Jesus." Servimus Unum Deumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12521042317656015840noreply@blogger.com