This is my favorite essay of yours, Spencer, since I joined the group. So rich, so layered, so well written. It’s worth a few read throughs and I thank you sincerely for it.
Spence, You really outdid yourself with this one! Thank you for putting all my failed pagan escapades in the context of Christ simply absorbing me back home.
This is my first essay I have read of yours and I love it. I have found the many interpretations floating around the X and the FB of "la scene de la Cene Sur la Seine" to be dizzying and insulting to those of us that have a sense of the sacred and Christian, as well as appreciation of the preChristian Pagan times. Yours is far more intellectual and thoughtful of course. Bravo.
Beautiful piece Spencer! If you have not had John Daniel Davidson on your show, you should. His book, "Pagan America" is certainly one of the best, and most insightful, I've read in the past five years.
These few lines diagnose the 'disease' affecting our society: This calls to mind another of Eliot’s warnings, that “to justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.” You won’t get the tree without the roots.
All I can say to those pushing this neo-pagansm (see Climate Change Activists) is Be Careful What You Ask For, You Just Might Get It. They might want to look at (The Original) The Wicker Man, to see where it leads. (Spoil Alert. Its Not A Good Place)
If paganism preceded Christianity what was God doing before Christianity?
Why wasn’t Christ sent 1st instead of that flawed guy Adam ?
Like the God outside of time & space I strongly suspect ( as a guy inside time & space) Christianity has always been there as a beautiful tune . Like music one first needs to find an instrument, one then needs to realise it’s an instrument. Then one experiments & learns how to play it, like Nero who could play a tune or 2 (if only wrong time , wrong place ) . So the when & why to play , once learned there came along the Devine song book of Christ (similar say to the American song 🎵 book) . So chronologically perhaps we need better music teachers to weave the tune into a modernity of science and technology and absorb that form of paganism too. And perhaps with knowledge of that science & tech woven in , we discover how to play the new instrument and then the 2nd coming of the Devine song book will be delivered.
P.S. song book not available or delivered by Amazon .
Jonathan Pageau has a half-hour video about this, which boils down to "of course it was the Last Supper--it's incredibly obvious--but don't look for much in the way of sense or anything deliberate, they're mostly just aligning themselves with chaos... and it's going to get a lot worse." Niestzche had something to say about it too: "Have I not been understood? It's Dionysus vs the Crucified One." He did not, of course, like the latter. And by Dionysus, he did NOT mean hedonism.
Never understood how anyone could worship a golden calf, not even if it means the worship of money. The Olympic Opening was just another distraction from the real issues--people struggling with inflation, illegal immigration, $35 Trillion national debt, possible WWIII, WEF elite world takeover, and so on.... I do believe the leftists love to get the Christians howling.
This is my favorite essay of yours, Spencer, since I joined the group. So rich, so layered, so well written. It’s worth a few read throughs and I thank you sincerely for it.
Wow. This is my favorite essay of yours thus far - and I thought everything had already been said about the Last Supper Olympic travesty.
Spence, You really outdid yourself with this one! Thank you for putting all my failed pagan escapades in the context of Christ simply absorbing me back home.
Beautiful work that can awaken lost souls-I hope and pray
As always, well and truly stated my friend!
Simply amazing.
Beautiful, Spencer!
This is my first essay I have read of yours and I love it. I have found the many interpretations floating around the X and the FB of "la scene de la Cene Sur la Seine" to be dizzying and insulting to those of us that have a sense of the sacred and Christian, as well as appreciation of the preChristian Pagan times. Yours is far more intellectual and thoughtful of course. Bravo.
Beautiful piece Spencer! If you have not had John Daniel Davidson on your show, you should. His book, "Pagan America" is certainly one of the best, and most insightful, I've read in the past five years.
These few lines diagnose the 'disease' affecting our society: This calls to mind another of Eliot’s warnings, that “to justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.” You won’t get the tree without the roots.
All I can say to those pushing this neo-pagansm (see Climate Change Activists) is Be Careful What You Ask For, You Just Might Get It. They might want to look at (The Original) The Wicker Man, to see where it leads. (Spoil Alert. Its Not A Good Place)
The chronology of the argument
If paganism preceded Christianity what was God doing before Christianity?
Why wasn’t Christ sent 1st instead of that flawed guy Adam ?
Like the God outside of time & space I strongly suspect ( as a guy inside time & space) Christianity has always been there as a beautiful tune . Like music one first needs to find an instrument, one then needs to realise it’s an instrument. Then one experiments & learns how to play it, like Nero who could play a tune or 2 (if only wrong time , wrong place ) . So the when & why to play , once learned there came along the Devine song book of Christ (similar say to the American song 🎵 book) . So chronologically perhaps we need better music teachers to weave the tune into a modernity of science and technology and absorb that form of paganism too. And perhaps with knowledge of that science & tech woven in , we discover how to play the new instrument and then the 2nd coming of the Devine song book will be delivered.
P.S. song book not available or delivered by Amazon .
"Like the God outside of time & space I strongly suspect ( as a guy inside time & space) Christianity has always been there as a beautiful tune ."
I get this from Lewis & Tolkien. A question I ask secularists online is "How's that getting rid of god thing working out for ya?"
Jonathan Pageau has a half-hour video about this, which boils down to "of course it was the Last Supper--it's incredibly obvious--but don't look for much in the way of sense or anything deliberate, they're mostly just aligning themselves with chaos... and it's going to get a lot worse." Niestzche had something to say about it too: "Have I not been understood? It's Dionysus vs the Crucified One." He did not, of course, like the latter. And by Dionysus, he did NOT mean hedonism.
Never understood how anyone could worship a golden calf, not even if it means the worship of money. The Olympic Opening was just another distraction from the real issues--people struggling with inflation, illegal immigration, $35 Trillion national debt, possible WWIII, WEF elite world takeover, and so on.... I do believe the leftists love to get the Christians howling.
Also I was just getting ready to publish my first substack....mistake reading this first 😂
Just wonderful, thank you!