Posts Tagged ‘Seekers’
Fr. Seraphim Rose on “Existential” Atheism
Posted in Inklings, tagged Antichrist, atheist, Christianity, Doubters, Existentialism, Faith, random, Seekers, truth on May 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Fr. Seraphim Rose on the Characteristics of the “New Man”
Posted in Inklings, tagged atheist, Christianity, Doubters, free thinkers, New Age, random, Seekers, truth, writer on May 7, 2015| 2 Comments »
It was very interesting trying to reblog this on both of my sites, but I finally succeeded…
Originally posted on Salt of the Earth:
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experimenter, worshipping “fact” because he has abandoned truth, seeing the world as a vast laboratory in which he is free to determine what is “possible”; the autonomous man, pretending to the humility of only asking his “rights,” yet full of the pride that expects everything to be given him in a world where nothing is authoritatively forbidden; the man of the moment, without conscience or values and thus at the mercy…
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Fr. Seraphim Rose on the Characteristics of the “New Man”
Posted in Inklings, tagged Christianity, Doubters, Faith, random, Seekers, truth, writer on May 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to believe anything new because true faith has been annihilated in him; the planner and experimenter, worshipping “fact” because he has abandoned truth, seeing the world as a vast laboratory in which he is free to determine what is “possible”; the autonomous man, pretending to the humility of only asking his “rights,” yet full of the pride that expects everything to be given him in a world where nothing is authoritatively forbidden; the man of the moment, without conscience or values and thus at the mercy…
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