... The invention of farming is why you exist, Douglass.
Okay, so a Plough-Keeper would be equivalent to a parish priest. Why are they all brothers? Many priests are not members of a religious order, and while there are parishes under the care of a religious order - my own parish is under the care of a chapter of Dominicans - it's never been all parishes.
Wait, does Douglass only have one religious order? That's absurd!
The communal solitude of the desert fathers, the prayerful industry of the Benedictines, the solemn prayerfulness of the Carmelites - these are not things one can just jam together under one rule of life! A Franciscan is not a Dominican, and neither of them is a Jesuit!
Religious orders are not founded to satisfy some vague religious yearning, they are founded to promote a way of life, a mission if you will, so that like-minded people can join together and support each other. For there to be only one religious order... Which one would you even pick?
And I just know she's left out the women's orders entirely. Never mind that St. Scholastica's order is as old as that of her brother St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, 'clearly' the religious life is a man's game. Ugh.
So... we have a whole religion and the most important thing about it is... it hates nature. First of all, at one-thousand years old if it was really that impractical it'd have died out already.
Secondly, do you notice what's missing from that potted description? Artor! Imagine giving a run-down on Catholicism without mentioning God!
Thirdly, Catholicism and indeed all religions are about how one ought to live. Aside from destroying and shunning untamed landscapes, what part of this description tells us how followers of Artor are supposed to live? How are they supposed to conduct themselves in society or their private life? What virtues do they value? How do they display good order in their daily life?
The more I read of her, the more convinced I am that Douglass had absolutely no business writing about religion.
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Okay, so a Plough-Keeper would be equivalent to a parish priest. Why are they all brothers? Many priests are not members of a religious order, and while there are parishes under the care of a religious order - my own parish is under the care of a chapter of Dominicans - it's never been all parishes.
Wait, does Douglass only have one religious order? That's absurd!
The communal solitude of the desert fathers, the prayerful industry of the Benedictines, the solemn prayerfulness of the Carmelites - these are not things one can just jam together under one rule of life! A Franciscan is not a Dominican, and neither of them is a Jesuit!
Religious orders are not founded to satisfy some vague religious yearning, they are founded to promote a way of life, a mission if you will, so that like-minded people can join together and support each other. For there to be only one religious order... Which one would you even pick?
And I just know she's left out the women's orders entirely. Never mind that St. Scholastica's order is as old as that of her brother St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, 'clearly' the religious life is a man's game. Ugh.
So... we have a whole religion and the most important thing about it is... it hates nature. First of all, at one-thousand years old if it was really that impractical it'd have died out already.
Secondly, do you notice what's missing from that potted description? Artor! Imagine giving a run-down on Catholicism without mentioning God!
Thirdly, Catholicism and indeed all religions are about how one ought to live. Aside from destroying and shunning untamed landscapes, what part of this description tells us how followers of Artor are supposed to live? How are they supposed to conduct themselves in society or their private life? What virtues do they value? How do they display good order in their daily life?
The more I read of her, the more convinced I am that Douglass had absolutely no business writing about religion.