One of the things that I share in common with the "J-Blogger who Banned Me" is a deep and abiding contempt for and paranoid suspicion of all things Catholic.
Ruminating over 15 Av I was struck at how this hateful Church of Love demonizes that which we hold to be the holy of holies. Namely, the natural love between man and wife and especially it's bodily expression. For them holiness can only derive from being "wed" to the unseen and unknown. But I suppose that this is the logical conclusion of a bogus miracle and the krumkeit stone upon which their entire church is built...conception sans physical love. How could such an arrangement NOT warp the minds and souls of their religious leadership? And how could flocks led by such pastors not themselves be grazing in weed infested pastures?
In any event as a Chieftains fan I came across these deliciously snarky/bitter lyrics by Joni Mitchell that are spot on in capturing the perverse inversion of love and hatred manifested in the whole insane arrangement:
"These bloodless brides of J**us,
If they had just once glimpsed their groom,
Then they'd know,
and they'd drop the stones,
Concealed behind their rosaries,
They wilt the grass they walk upon,
They leech the light out of a room,
They'd like to drive us down the drain,
At the Magdalene laundries"
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THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES by Joni Mitchell
Qedusha-Havdala...have you had yours today?
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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Mikadesh gashmius is a Jewish concept. Hence, goyim can only bring a Karbon Ohlah (not a Shlomim)
that's only part of it. It's the hubris of thinking that they're already in the oilom haneshomos.
The asceticism is an extension of concepts in Torah, but twisted. Like no meat on Fridays or giving something up for Lent as a new form of Nezirut. The idea of being yotzei through someone else's higher level of kedusha and avoda is also twisted - the nun/priest does it so you don't have to.
this is more than asceticism...This is pouring the greatest of ones bein ahdahm l'khaveiro into a(lehavdil) bein Ahdam L'Maqom.
They've squeezed the left tablet into the right one.
That's why for millenia they've talked the talk of love while walking the walk of hate.
And yet ironically, the gospel is about love for one's neighbor over any "ancient" obligations to God.
Asceticism in Tanach involves only wine and fasting. Certainly, love between a man and a woman is a Biblical virtue.
However, it's not entirely accurate to point to Christianity as first deploring sexual pleasures. R' Eliezer's coital relations were
כמי שכפאו שד
נדרים כ
deploring is one thing, avoiding is another and substituting the shed for the human is quite another entirely!
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