Each person that begins to act authentically "without wax," who refuses to do the "waxed" thing; that action that feels phony; out of alignment with their beliefs, with which they are not proud, grows the heart of this movement daily. Noble souls proceed despite the difficult consequences that could result from their actions and remain unmoved. It may seem small, even trivial but each small action trains the will to respond to a higher principle strengthening the will for the next act. It's the little things that do us in all the time. Thank God for rebellious English barons!!!
I haven't read Weaver (yet), but I want to raise a point in defense of the Middle Ages: with the exception of the Spanish Inquisition (which was under the control of the Spanish crown and also was in power during the Renaissance), the church in the Middle Ages kept careful records of the judicial proceedings of the Inquisition. Generally, the ecclesiastical courts were considered more lenient that the civil courts, to the point where people commonly appealed to trial by the church to escape from the civil courts. And people convicted of heresy were often guilty of violent crimes as well. During an age when capital punishment was common, the Inquisition, over a period of 150 years, on continents around the globe, executed around two to four thousand people. Around 20 people a year, world-wide, and that includes violent offenders. I'm not excusing it, but it is not a darker period of history than any year in the 20th or 21st centuries.
I believe that the common understanding of the Middle Ages is mostly propaganda, in fact the most successful propaganda campaign in history, to date. This is the foundation of the Progress myth and the Conquest of Nature ideology. They had to discredit the past, as you said in the book, citing Orwell. "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their own history." It's been done to us before. Thank God for having the ability to fight it now. We need more rebels. C.S. Lewis is a great one if people want to recapture a sense of the medieval mind. It was a place of light.
"How do we address this?" It seems we have to convince anyone we can that whatever is based on lies, is doomed to degrade; that you can't trust blindly anything that is manifestly untrustworthy; it's going to fail you.
BTW, yesterday was the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. I saw this from Franklin Saunders of Volunteer Precious Metals:
"Eight hundred eight years ago today, 15 June 1215, rebellious barons led by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, forced the English King John to grant and sign the Magna Carta Libertatum, the great charter of freedoms. Magna carta is the foundation of English and American Liberties. It promised protection of church rights, protection form illegal imprisonment, swift justice, and the right to travel unimpeded...
We need to force the protection of our rights again.
Each person that begins to act authentically "without wax," who refuses to do the "waxed" thing; that action that feels phony; out of alignment with their beliefs, with which they are not proud, grows the heart of this movement daily. Noble souls proceed despite the difficult consequences that could result from their actions and remain unmoved. It may seem small, even trivial but each small action trains the will to respond to a higher principle strengthening the will for the next act. It's the little things that do us in all the time. Thank God for rebellious English barons!!!
I haven't read Weaver (yet), but I want to raise a point in defense of the Middle Ages: with the exception of the Spanish Inquisition (which was under the control of the Spanish crown and also was in power during the Renaissance), the church in the Middle Ages kept careful records of the judicial proceedings of the Inquisition. Generally, the ecclesiastical courts were considered more lenient that the civil courts, to the point where people commonly appealed to trial by the church to escape from the civil courts. And people convicted of heresy were often guilty of violent crimes as well. During an age when capital punishment was common, the Inquisition, over a period of 150 years, on continents around the globe, executed around two to four thousand people. Around 20 people a year, world-wide, and that includes violent offenders. I'm not excusing it, but it is not a darker period of history than any year in the 20th or 21st centuries.
I believe that the common understanding of the Middle Ages is mostly propaganda, in fact the most successful propaganda campaign in history, to date. This is the foundation of the Progress myth and the Conquest of Nature ideology. They had to discredit the past, as you said in the book, citing Orwell. "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their own history." It's been done to us before. Thank God for having the ability to fight it now. We need more rebels. C.S. Lewis is a great one if people want to recapture a sense of the medieval mind. It was a place of light.
"How do we address this?" It seems we have to convince anyone we can that whatever is based on lies, is doomed to degrade; that you can't trust blindly anything that is manifestly untrustworthy; it's going to fail you.
BTW, yesterday was the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. I saw this from Franklin Saunders of Volunteer Precious Metals:
"Eight hundred eight years ago today, 15 June 1215, rebellious barons led by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, forced the English King John to grant and sign the Magna Carta Libertatum, the great charter of freedoms. Magna carta is the foundation of English and American Liberties. It promised protection of church rights, protection form illegal imprisonment, swift justice, and the right to travel unimpeded...
We need to force the protection of our rights again.