My apologia is up at @jacobitemag: How does one move from abstract horror to Catholicism and love—and what could Rome have to do with cyberpunk? It's simple enough.https://jacobitemag.com/2018/07/05/catholicism-and-the-gravity-of-horror/ …
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The divine is personal and intercessory prayer is real, but if the world of saints and prayer appears saccharine to an ironist not sharing its starting-points this is, for someone caught up in it, exactly because it is a refuge that contrasts another world that is decidedly not.
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All right, but my honest perception from my direct experience of the faith is that a horroristic reading of Catholic theology contrasts with how it is normally taught and presented. Take evolution for example, the horror there is facing it's complete purposelessness..........
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whereas still common within the Church are attempts to evade it or smuggle some sense of divine purpose back in.
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I can no longer find purposelessness itself horrific, though: why is a universe in which you are all that matters and can do whatever you like scary? Horror supposes an exterior with its own teleologies, at which point, like Ccru, you're back in the realm of the theology.
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In my view of purposelessness the individual doesn't matter either and they can't do whatever they want, reality has some strong checks on that. Most people approach the faith as a source of consolation not horror, it's a reasonable point but pace I'm not going to keep arguing
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Just seems to me, really, that most people who go on about how existentially horrific reality is don't show many signs of actually being very horrified. Faith imposes immediate constraints on individual behaviour, which abstract ruminations about the Universe not caring don't.
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Worth thinking about further, though, so thanks for pointing it out.
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