Brian’s Reflection: December 24, 2007 (Christmas Eve)


The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality,
but morality touched by emotion.

- Matthew Arnold, English poet, author,
born on this day, 1822


“Morality” is just rules. It isn’t “religion”, a linking to Goodness. Morality is heartless. Morality is an instrument of control. Morality is inhuman, without feeling, except perhaps of meanness. The “moral majority”? Just a bunch of control freaks afflicted by an innate inability to appreciate being human.

The Incarnation? God with us, God in us, God “human”? “Morality touched by emotion”.

Morality will never make us human. Emmanuel will.

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