Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 7:59am

Pharisees, Reactionaries and Mark Shea

I cannot possibly improve on what Pat Archbold wrote at Creative Minority Report:

 

God, I thank you that I am not like other people”

 

From the eminently huggable Mark Shea’s “Bed-wetting Reactionary Wusses…”

What ties everything in Reactionary culture together better than any other theory I’ve been able to come up with is that it’s not that Reactionaries think the Church is evangelizing wrong and want to do it better.  It’s that they hate the whole idea of bringing new people into the Church at all (except for a vanishingly small sample of like-minded Reactionaries) and seem to be bent on making sure as few are allowed in and as many are driven away as possible.

I agree with Mark.  Wouldn’t it be much better if all the Reactionary Wuss –holes in the Church who are not as open, loving, and tolerant as us would just get the the F out.
File this in the “irony is lost on them” department.

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Thinkling
Thinkling
Thursday, September 19, AD 2013 8:35pm

Wow, Pat whiffed on that one pretty badly alright. Mark would want the polar opposite of what he says. Weird.

What is truly frightening though is the commenters there apparently have not read even the OP, they were parroting Pat almost entirely (and the iOS update apparently broke their calendars causing them to double up on their snark pill dosing). Also a good reminder to all, esp myself, regarding the Pope’s interview…read it before assessing, read it before assessing, read it before assessing.

Dante alighieri
Admin
Thursday, September 19, AD 2013 9:06pm

Irony and sarcasm are evidently lost on “Thinkling” as well.

Elaine Krewer
Admin
Friday, September 20, AD 2013 5:54am

I think Pat is off the mark here. Mark did not say, and has never said, that “reactionaries” should be kicked out of the Church. He is simply saying that they will never find the “pure”, lean and mean Church they desire in this world and they need to accept that.

That said, the segment of “reactionary culture” of which he is complaining — people who regard converts from Protestantism like himself as potentially subversive — seems (to me) to be pretty small, even in the bizzaro world of the internet, and confined to a few obscure blogs. Why he spends so much time trying to correct them, I don’t know, unless he’s got a real-life personal problem with one or more of them.

Foxfier
Sunday, September 22, AD 2013 10:01pm

That said, the segment of “reactionary culture” of which he is complaining — people who regard converts from Protestantism like himself as potentially subversive — seems (to me) to be pretty small, even in the bizzaro world of the internet, and confined to a few obscure blogs.

That’s because you don’t entirely agree with him.

Part of the reason I stopped reading the fellow is because I noticed that his stated description of folks, vs who he identified as being in the groups, was getting further apart. (“You nasty folks” grew from “nasty folks” to “disagrees with me on X” folks, mostly.)

Foxfier
Sunday, September 22, AD 2013 10:02pm

Incidentally– Mr. Shea, if you happen across this, don’t bother responding; you’ve already made it quite clear what you think of me, and there’s no need to waste your time doing so again.

enness
enness
Sunday, September 22, AD 2013 11:42pm

Wow, Shea seems to be everyone’s favorite trampoline lately.

I always stick up for the person who appears to me to be getting the unfair end of a fight, even if it is someone I have criticized freely and plentifully before…this is one of those times. This piece disgusts me as much as any of Shea’s “gay brownshirts” rhetoric. He did not tell anyone to “get the F out.” Good grief.

enness
enness
Sunday, September 22, AD 2013 11:56pm

I would just add that if you yourself haven’t had an encounter with this particular subculture, you will probably underestimate the harm it’s capable of doing. I do not want to exaggerate its importance, but it’s real. Permissive secular culture is not the only thing we have to watch out for.

Foxfier
Admin
Monday, September 23, AD 2013 12:13am

I always stick up for the person who appears to me to be getting the unfair end of a fight

That’s a “knee jerk reaction.”

Barring further thought, it is NOT a thing to brag about.

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