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Entry: Better to Blow Out One Candle than Curse the Light Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/better_to_blow_out_one_candle_than_curse_the_light#16044 Post contents: "Mr. Z. I love your posts but I think that when it comes to the sspx, lefevbre, and some soi disant traditionalists, you are creating a mirage..." I somewhat agree and this is my point of partial disagreement with Z's way of religion, and others including Dr Cathey and Sid. Guys - I mean JZ and you other traditionalist Catholics - do you realise that one of the main reasons why many Christians like me, including practicing and/or ambivalent Catholics, have reservations about the RC church is because of the apparently heavy burden it seems to impose of arcane, labyrinthine theology? Isn't there some kind of equivalent of a "Zen" subcommunity in the RC church? Some kind of "minimalist" tradition which emphasises simplicity and immediate, practical experience instead of arcane ponderous theology? And would you think I'm totally nuts if I suggested it might be useful - especially in these times - for some Catholics to learn and adapt some Oriental ways of thinking - provided that they don't conflict with essential matters of faith - such as the intellectual disciplines of Zen Buddhism, in order to, well, to Christianise those Oriental traditions and thereby to bring more lost Western Christians (who succumb to the tempting half-truths of Oriental religions) back into OUR flock, as well as the new a growing flocks of Christians in the Far East? I'm just asking. Please just consider these thoughts a few "theses" nailed to good JZ's cyber-door, for discussion instead of (as the Church foolishly did to Luther's theses) categorical refusal to think about them? Sent at: 2008 07 09