Obedience.Reviewing Diarmuid O'Murchu's Poverty, Celibacy celibacy (sĕl`ĭbəsē), voluntary refusal to enter the married state, with abstinence from sexual activity. It is one of the typically Christian forms of asceticism. , and Obedience: A radical option for life, in The Tablet for November 27, Bernard Green issued a strong warning: do not read. He calls the book "the angriest tract in favour of non-violence that I have ever read. Its pages blister blister, puffy swelling of the outer skin (epidermis) caused by burn, friction, or irritants like poison ivy. A response of the body to protect deeper tissue, blisters generally contain serum, the liquid component of blood. with outraged denunciations so exaggerated that eventually they just seem odd." O'Murchu is attacking "a sketchy caricature of the entire Western spiritual and religious tradition," all of which, he says, is "patriarchal and violent." It is suffocated with spiritualism spiritualism: see spiritism. spiritualism Belief that the souls of the dead can make contact with the living, usually through a medium or during abnormal mental states such as trances. , many of its practices are "acts of blasphemy blasphemy, in religion, words or actions that display irreverence toward or contempt for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the community to varying degrees, depending on the extent of the identification of a religion with ," and it "blindly colludes with the oppressive society of which it is a part." But fortunately, the author claims, formal religion is dying. |
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