tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8798236004600111843..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Life as a mundane epicBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59558248715813234102021-10-27T21:02:09.845+01:002021-10-27T21:02:09.845+01:00Fascinating. Life is certainly a mundane epic. I...Fascinating. Life is certainly a mundane epic. In part what is striking is the prior essay of incoherence. In the epic, I see the incoherent in command, what some call borderline personalities or just plain crazies and their inability to see the first, second or third order consequences of their acts. It is astonishing. R.J.Cavazoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12450048633891439382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-89317836403284285122021-10-27T14:33:58.105+01:002021-10-27T14:33:58.105+01:00"But our task as Christians is see through th..."But our task as Christians is see through the mundane materialistic epic to the exciting spiritual adventure beneath..."<br /><br />Yes! For me this is the central concept of what you call Romantic Christianity. That life is an individualized quest, and that God has given us what we need to navigate the quest by heart-thinking. Easy to explain to a child, and to myself.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-79574279339052558072021-10-27T09:57:55.043+01:002021-10-27T09:57:55.043+01:00@William - Indeed, and - as we have both noted bef...@William - Indeed, and - as we have both noted before - among those who moderns are spiritual are the New Age types who do not recognize the reality of evil; but preach non-discernment, oneness, 'sweetness and light' - and always take the leftward side of mainstream leftism. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59211778040588331092021-10-27T09:33:17.824+01:002021-10-27T09:33:17.824+01:00"the run of poets and thinkers, artists and m..."the run of poets and thinkers, artists and makers - because they have themselves (in their service to evil) become as dull, devious and mundane as the politicians, financiers, bureaucrats and journalists." This is so true and you could add religious leaders to that list. Of course, these characters still see themselves as on the cutting edge of culture and imagination and right thinking but practically all of them have joined the other side and become as petty as those they fancy themselves superior to. The 200 hundred year onslaught on the spiritual has now reached the point at which most people genuinely cannot conceive of its reality and adopt at best a bemused tolerance of it but quickly sideline anyone who has the audacity to take it seriously.<br /><br />William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.com