Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NJ
[Smoking tobacco cigarettes invites health problems.
No one should smoke tobacco cigarettes.
So why would anyone desire to smoke?
The element of desire is not so obvious and is nonsensical.]
07/18/18
Category Archives: Defining Religion
07/17/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NI
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Each sovereigninfra demands ‘something2a’.
Often, this is a prohibition.
For example, smoking tobacco cigarettes was rendered taboo in the 1990s.
A health-minded sovereigninfra decreed, “The subject shall not smoke cigarettes.”
I want to explore this example because the elements of conversion are obvious and sensical.]
07/16/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NH
[The passage of an institution from point 1 to point 3 changes the message of the institution.
The message goes from conversion by persuasion (or example) to conversion by the sword.
All sovereigns have the sword, so why not use it?
If the objectorganization is so important that it must be imposed by sovereign power, it is important enough to worship as an idol.
Thus, sovereign religions veer towards idolatry.]
07/13/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NG
[Politics substitutes for religion, in the passage of an institution from point 1 to point 3.
Political machinations become a screen for religious convictions.
There is much to be said about this.
However, the topic is far from Schoonenberg’s text.]
07/12/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NF
[There are three types of infrasovereign religions:
- The first could grasp for sovereign power (religioninfrasov) but does not because of its own internal rules (and devotion to a religionsuprasov). These could transition to point 2 by getting around the rules.
- The second grasps for sovereign power in order to impose its objectsorganization on all sovereign subjects (religioninfrasov).
- The third imposes it objectsorganization, because it belongs an alliance that has grasped sovereign power (religionsov or (infra)sovereign religion).]
07/5/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 NA
[So what happens when, in the Modern opposition, “freedom” is defined as lack of responsibility?
Do less responsibilities mean more freedom?]
06/12/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 MK
[How does this resonate with Schoonenberg’s claim that we have the freedom to serve God or Satan?
Freedom goes with both the potential of the person1a plus an actuality, the something contextualized by the thought experiment2a.
The thought experiment3a reflects illumination by social elites (or, in general, the Zeitgeist).]
06/8/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 MI
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Both the ancient Jewish and modern American infra(sovereign) religions possessed objects that bring all subjects into organization.
Both were and are committed to creating the thought experiement3a or a mirror of the world3a.]
06/6/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 MG
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[My own inadequacy in understanding how to fulfill God’s laws2a was the ‘something2a’ that held first century common-folk Jews in bondage.
Paul, on the other hand, originally felt that he counted among the elites.
He knew how to fulfill God’s laws:
Persecute the followers of Jesus.]
06/1/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 MD
[All systems can be scammed.
All sovereigns are prey for competing infrasovereign religions.
All sovereigns strive to contextualize themselves.
They do so through forced conversion of the ruled populations.
Big Government Liberalism is a state religion composed of an alliance of infrasovereign religions.]