Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
And then there is the "arbiet macht frei" -- 'work makes you free' --
which I associate with Nazi labor camps but probably has older antecedents.
[snip]
Surely part of the reason this phrase "stuck" is its bitter irony.
Laborare est orare.
(To work is to pray. -- monastic dictum)
I was thinking about Xian celibacy today, and I saw the problem:
Either what should be eschewed is *having children* because
of the drain it is on the socially available resources the
individual has, or else *all social pleasures*, not just
non-reproductive sexual activity should be eschewed. Either
monks should be anchorites or else every abbey should be
a new Theleme.
Maybe before the general availability of effecgtive contraception
the conflation/cunfusion of sex and reproduction made
some sense, but now it seems we can disentangle the two
essences involved (social pleasure and reproduction of species
life).
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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