homeschoolmom Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Has your conversion required you to rethink assumptions you had about history and politics? It tires me to have to look at everything and examine it in a new light... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroX Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 My thinking about history helped me see the truth of the Catholic Church, does that count? ps tell HS Dad that I will reply to his emails, just as soon as I finish these papers!! peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Assumptions I’ve had about history have definitely changed, although I’m not sure if my change in assumptions led to my conversion, or if my conversion led to my change in assumptions. It all kind of happened together. As I think about it, it was probably the former more so than the latter. As I started reading different accounts of stories I’d grown up with about the Protestant Reformation, the heroic gleam that I’d attached to people like John Calvin and Martin Luther really lost its shine. Events and ideas that had once made me proud to be Protestant and proud to be descended from these people who had stood up so vociferously for what they believed now made me weep. I began seeing the church in a whole new light, and it was really painful. It’s funny ... all those years as a Protestant, I thought divisions and strife in the church was normal, and didn’t really think anything of it. I had questioned it briefly at some points, but never gave it serious thought until I started really reading history. Now, it’s really painful to see those divisions, and to see people I love as separated brethren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 See, it's the opposite direction for me. I'm having to rethink history (and not just the Reformation-- pretty much all of American history). And I am finding myself just wanting to not deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sojourner Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 I guess that along the way, I've had to re-learn a lot of stuff about all kinds of history. I'd never really thought about anti-Catholic prejudice, for example. I've found a couple of books that are pretty good on detailing some of the history of this, which has been really interesting to read about. I dunno, I haven't gotten tired of it yet. I guess I like the constant sense of discovering new information and learning to see things in a new light ... research is fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted November 4, 2004 Author Share Posted November 4, 2004 See, for example... Thanksgiving... Puritans? Couragous pilgrims seeking a place to raise their children in an English-speaking land with religious freedom from the CoE (and Rome)....? Or... rebelious, intolerant heretics...? Or somewhere in between....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroX Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Part of it is coming to realize the foundations of American History that are rooted in Hobbesian and Lockeian philosophy. They are fundamentally different from Catholic political theory. Not neccessarily opposed, but very different. So, I think everyone should be a monarchist! peace... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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