Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LZ
05/25/18
Category Archives: Our current Lebenswelt is not the Lebenswelt that we evolved in
Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
05/24/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LY
[All political resistance is accused of hating the victims.
The political party of the Progressive elites longs to make the accusation.
The political party of the common folk longs to avoid the accusation.]
05/22/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LW
[Some American citizens sell their votes to the (infra)sovereign religion or, even more mind boggling, are convinced that the (infra)sovereign religions are on their side.
These are the so-called ‘low information voters’ who vote along tribal affiliation, as if, through elections, one tribe can legitimately subjugate the opposing tribes.
Forget the 10 commandments!]
05/8/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LM
Summary of text [comment] page 83
[Let me go back to the return from the Babylonian exile.
Why did the common folk of the second temple allow a sovereigninfra to form?
Why did they consistently support Sadducees, Pharisees and Scribes in their devotion to an objectorganization of ritual purity?]
05/7/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LL
[The decline of the Roman Empire may have been tempered by the multiplication of less politically minded Christians.]
05/4/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LK
[Consider histories of Franklin Roosevelt written in the 20th century (7700s U0’).
Not one assessed the economic consequences of Roosevelt’s tragic and capricious presidential leadership.
The Federal Reserve Board caused the Great Depression.
Roosevelt did nothing to stop their madness.
He enhance the Great Depression by supplementing economic with political uncertainty.
Why did America not fall into revolution?
The common folk were still Christian.]
05/3/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LJ
[Modern intellectuals rarely correlate the political rhetoric (words) with economic consequences (bondage).
Indeed, it seems that their job is to produce the words that put the common folk into bondage.]
05/2/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LI
[Why did modern historians believe the rhetoric of the Pagan Romans?
Traditional pagan Romans blamed Christianity for their decline.
Naive and self-absorbed modern intellectuals took their words at face value.]
04/23/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 LB
[Before his conversion, Paul was not so different from other members of the Jewish elite. He yearned for recognition, not for material goods.
What type of recognition?
Paul wanted to be recognized as more righteous than his peers.
He was not covetous, like those other grasping elites.
Oh yes, he was better.
He enforced the Law.]
04/16/18
Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 KW
[Obligations went from responsibilities to words.
The words of the Law put the majority in bondage.
Common folk (the so-called “deplorables”) were required to meet traditional family and tribal obligations.
They were never adequate when it came to ritual purity. They were good people, but they were cast as losers
All they could hope for was to avoid accusations of thinkanti-object, that is, rumors that would ruin one’s life and relations.
Does that sound vaguely familiar for today’s (2017) America?]