What is the Benedict Option like?
Contrary to many accounts, it appears to be indistinguishable from a frenetic yappy dog with a spark plug wired into its butt.
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| The Benedict Option contemplates a strategic withdrawal from the external culture. |
Yap!
Yarf!
Yaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
For those canines on the marches whose hydrocodone prescription has run dry, it's like the Reign of Terror, without the reign and without the terror.
I don't think Jesus done it this way.
But I thought we are all implicated. I'm so confused .....
ReplyDeletePik, your astute observation stands tapping its foot at the crossroads of Christian theology, NYT best-selling sociology, and compulsive blog writing - wait, that's not a crossroads properly speaking, is it, more like a six way Walmart asterisk-roads.
DeleteNo matter. There is but one solution.
The Benedict Option must field its own football team.
My choices for quarterback, R. J. Squirrel and a halfback, 400 imaginary pounds, all moosle.
The Benedict Option must field its own football team.
DeleteBwahaha!
The Benedict Option must field its own football team.
DeleteYes, this. $1 million a game will make the whole enterprise more achievable.
It occurred to me that I might have to connect a few dots for those not already familiar with the sort of leaps through the idea canopy my monkey brain is wont to take.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, the Mizzou episode is a prime example of why God created Darwinism. Parents of students, those who write the checks at least, are going to begin asking, "I'm paying how much? For this?". The football players, "Arright, now. Now we want a contract. And a pool table. And a Xbox." And a couple students, "Fail me and won't eat my sandwich - that blood will be on your hands!"
And then we can all watch as these little sub-ecologies achieve a new equilibrium with respect to one another. Meanwhile, we'll always need plumbers.
OTOH, if someone is ever really going to pursue a Benedict Option they're eventually going to have to put the crank pipe of outrage down and walk away from it. Ren.
Unless they're in the Missouri Ozarks, where it might be harder to get away from. The crank. Not the outrage. They might even run into a post-new order Mizzou alum in the process.
If only the left would quit threating the Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Religion that Rod holds dear to his heart, he could get back to formulating the ways that the Benedict Option can fight against the enlightenment nominalism that gave birth to those very rights...wait a minute...Norcia we have a problem.
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