QotD [Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος]

←

→

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-03-23:

"The Catholic faith [i.e., the ideal Christian faith], while it condemns no temperament as incapable of salvation, flatters none as being less in peril than any other. In the same way [a Christian] has to make his public confession of belief in a church which is not confined to his sort, to those with whom by nature he feels at home, for in it there is neither Jew nor German, East nor West, boy nor girl, smart nor dumb, boss nor worker, Bohemian nor bourgeois, no elite of any kind; indeed there are not even Christians there, for Christianity is a way, not a state, and a Christian is never something one is, only something one can pray to become." -- W.H. Auden, poet.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/09/23/020923crat_atlarge?currentPage=2]

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)

←

→

There are 4 comments on this entry. (Reply.)

Perhaps if the RC church I was raised in had espoused this theory, they might have kept me as a participant even tho it seems to me now that I was never a believer... /Khatru, not able to figure out cross-id from LJ and not willing to put energy into doing so.

[link] [reply]

For future reference, picking the "OpenID" radio button on the comment screen, and entering your LJ URL (http://username.livejournal.com) in the "Identity URL" box will signal LJ to ask you permission to forward confirmation that you're you back to DW. The result will look like this comment.

And yeah, the idea in that quotation struck me as an interesting ideal rather than a description of common practice.

[link] [parent] [reply]