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Entry: Lukacs the Tory Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/lukacs_the_tory#28428 Post contents: Mr. Havers, Neither the American religious right or English puritanism = "unrestrained spiritualism." What poses as spiritualism in America today is simply a conglomeration of confused emotional reactions of an unrooted culture. Like lost and stunned passengers groping in the dark after a train wreck. It was the same for the English puritans once they cut themselves loose from the ancient faith of their Fathers. Yet, not the culture. The diminishing culture cut from its life of grace, limped along for another four centuries.Thus today there is not a dimes worth of difference between the caterwailing of a Rev. Hagee, Rev. Wright, Al Sharpton or their look alike cousin of the Catholic variety in Father Michael Pfleger. The Christian Tradition is contemplative in its essence and thus even the greatest of the medieval Order of Preachers were always contemplatives before anything else. Dr. Lukacs is justified in his fear of what passes for spiritualism in America: The herd mentality in emotional frenzie. Something along the lines of watching old films of the Third Reich rallying the masses. My disappointmet in Mr. Lukacs analysis (and yours) is the lack of wisdom in knowing or at least recognizing the difference between these husks of unbridled emotion and what Moses described as the "silent shout" of the spirit that dwells within. Sent at: 2009 01 08