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Entry: Thoughts on the the Antichrist: Part I, The Inversion of Values Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/thoughts_on_the_the_antichrist_i_the_inversion_of_values#604 Post contents: An outstanding entry by Scott Richert, to much of which I very comfortably could have affixed my own signature. Of particular interest to me was Reichert's critique of the Catholic blogoshere. It is here that one glimpses something of the corrosive impact of First Things, EWTN Catholicism on an entire generation of serious young Catholics. While many have reached a surface familiarity with thinkers of the importance of du Lubac or von Balthasar, they seem utterly incapable of grasping their meaning for the future of Catholicism and its vision of its relation to the world and to history. The Christological dimension, while claimed, is simply not grasped in its most important aspects. I'll venture the prediction that a crisis of no small moment will overtake authors and contributors alike at such places as the American Papist, Open Book and the egregiously misnamed Ratzinger Fan Club when the futility of a vision of the faith that is tethered to the fantasy of an ontology of the purely natural finally dawns on them. For it is precisely here that ideological inroads into the faith are made possible at all. What we are witnessing is nothing less than the emergence of another Reichschurch. God help us. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 11 22