tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post5365577663533599042..comments2024-03-25T11:09:41.538-04:00Comments on a minor friar blog: My Bride Ate Herself to Death, Father DirectorBrother Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07780326836452864455noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-77844948042577965972012-03-29T22:27:57.380-04:002012-03-29T22:27:57.380-04:00While Blessed Ranieri's vocation story might n...While Blessed Ranieri's vocation story might not fly today, apparently he was the flying friar of his day. At least that's what the paintings depict.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26883902.post-72906218351615281802012-03-29T18:15:02.909-04:002012-03-29T18:15:02.909-04:00Our current age has this funny preoccupation with ...Our current age has this funny preoccupation with the notion that "historicity" and "truth" are synonymous. A story that is in any part non-verifiable as "historically happened as described" is therefore not true. As such, it is to be confronted as a lie, and the teller as deceived or deceiver, needing punishment and/or counseling. It's a bad mix of poor logic and not being able to separate wisdom from epistemology of the age.<br /><br />A few safe venues remain - music and science fiction come to mind - but those of us who are called as storytellers need take the risk of public ridicule and continue telling these stories as truth, even if the packaging of that truth does not meet the current standards of the world.Caedmon Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909242134689044188noreply@blogger.com