Evil for the fun of it
The Parish and Open Book had some interesting links this week with some Christian writers tackling war, killing, and torture all in the name of good clean Christian fun.
At The Parish he links to a recent essay by Martin Marty that concedes that the military is a vocation, and the killing associated with that calling being a "tragic necessity, with consciences shaped by repentence." Greg then proceeds to have some good, old-fashioned profane fun with how any profession rooted in sin is okay as long as the tragic necessity of it is followed by repentence.
Open Book linked to a Crisis article by Mark Shea. I'm glad she did because I don't normally read Crisis, okay not at all, and Mark Shea on his blog has sometimes turned me off (his blog is called Catholic and Enjoying It, and when I started to read his I asked Puritas Corbin what exactly is he enjoying because he just came across as so angry). But when Mark Shea is on, he is on fire. This was an excellent essay, with lines like "For it—like legal abortion—is a slippery slope leading to, among other things, the creation of a special class of people who truly enjoy this sort of work and are good at it."
At The Parish he links to a recent essay by Martin Marty that concedes that the military is a vocation, and the killing associated with that calling being a "tragic necessity, with consciences shaped by repentence." Greg then proceeds to have some good, old-fashioned profane fun with how any profession rooted in sin is okay as long as the tragic necessity of it is followed by repentence.
Open Book linked to a Crisis article by Mark Shea. I'm glad she did because I don't normally read Crisis, okay not at all, and Mark Shea on his blog has sometimes turned me off (his blog is called Catholic and Enjoying It, and when I started to read his I asked Puritas Corbin what exactly is he enjoying because he just came across as so angry). But when Mark Shea is on, he is on fire. This was an excellent essay, with lines like "For it—like legal abortion—is a slippery slope leading to, among other things, the creation of a special class of people who truly enjoy this sort of work and are good at it."
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