More on Class
The Tiger in Winter sent along some class conscious quizzes yesterday. I did the Furniture one today. I like my result, I think: Old Money. I also got a smattering of New Money and Middle Middle. My taste for electronics dragged me down. Dang! (is that Old Money?) It wasn't too hard to see where most of the choices would take you, but I was baffled, baffled I tell you, over the floor covering. What is wrong with pile carpet? They claim it isn't even middle middle - it's lower class. I would have said that about deep shag...
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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