Comments on: Judas Priests! http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred K. http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Fred K. Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:42:32 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/#comment-30 <i>I mean, read the texts — this was Pokemon for second-century grownups.</i> Sweet post, sweet line. I mean, read the texts — this was Pokemon for second-century grownups.
Sweet post, sweet line.

]]> By: dimbulb http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/comment-page-1/#comment-29 dimbulb Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:35:02 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/#comment-29 "Gnosticism failed..... because it lacked credibility- and, actually, any other interesting quality." You could say the same about the National Geographic, the NY Times and the secular media in general. “Gnosticism failed….. because it lacked credibility- and, actually, any other interesting quality.” You could say the same about the National Geographic, the NY Times and the secular media in general.

]]> By: Pauli http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Pauli Fri, 07 Apr 2006 20:31:41 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/04/07/judas-priests/#comment-27 If people are so eager to get the scoop on this secret knowledge stuff, I see no reason to restrict the canonicity of documents to the early Christian period. There's some really good science fiction works which deal extensively with alternate cosmogenies for the devout Gnostic and "diverse and interesting" moralities which would make the most sex-crazed Manichean blush. What's a few millennia to us "armchair archons"? And if Judas wasn't really a betrayer isn't it possible that Asimov was really not an atheist, nor Heinlein a sex-hound nor Hubbard a lunatic? Some may mutter that these inspired visionaries weren't apostles, but that smacks of the same kind of prejudice that had people thinking Judas Iscariot was some kind of bad guy, doesn't it? Forget centuries of tradition - now we have his own word that he was innocent! On a more serious note, I hope for his own good that Mike never insults Pokemon this way ever again. If people are so eager to get the scoop on this secret knowledge stuff, I see no reason to restrict the canonicity of documents to the early Christian period. There’s some really good science fiction works which deal extensively with alternate cosmogenies for the devout Gnostic and “diverse and interesting” moralities which would make the most sex-crazed Manichean blush. What’s a few millennia to us “armchair archons”? And if Judas wasn’t really a betrayer isn’t it possible that Asimov was really not an atheist, nor Heinlein a sex-hound nor Hubbard a lunatic? Some may mutter that these inspired visionaries weren’t apostles, but that smacks of the same kind of prejudice that had people thinking Judas Iscariot was some kind of bad guy, doesn’t it? Forget centuries of tradition – now we have his own word that he was innocent!

On a more serious note, I hope for his own good that Mike never insults Pokemon this way ever again.

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