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As Kierkegaard noted:<\/p>\n
A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down; but a revolutionary age, that is at the same time reflective and passionless, transforms that expression of strength into a feat of dialectics: it leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance. \u00a0Instead of culminating in a rebellion it\u00a0reduces the inward reality of all\u00a0relationships to a reflective tension which leaves everything standing but makes the whole of life ambiguous: so that everything continues to exist factually whilst by a dialectical deceit, privatissime<\/em>, it supplies a secret interpretation — that it does not exist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A perfect description of today\u2019s mainline churches who pay careful attention to their symbols, liturgies and traditions but have meticulously emptied them of meaning.<\/p>\n
Thus we have drive-through ashes<\/a>, ashes to go<\/a> and ashes to joke about<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Kierkegaard noted: A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down; but a revolutionary age, that is at the same time reflective and passionless, transforms that expression of strength into a feat of dialectics: it leaves everything standing … Continue reading