Catholic Thoughts

Catholic teachings, connections, and ideas that call forth God's Creation and Truth

“Many Christians are becoming Gnostics without realizing it.

Falling to the primeval temptation in the garden of Eden: "You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil", they succumb to the desire for godlike powers, deciding for themselves what is good and what is evil. The error of Gnosticism is that knowledge can be obtained and used to perfect onese

“The record of salvation history in the Old Testament is primarily about the Lord's effort to wean man of idolatry and to form a people capable of receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ. It was a long, painfully slow process marked by brilliant moments and repeated backslides into paganism.” -Michael D. O’Brien

before her pain came she was delivered of a man-child” (Isaiah 66:7)…

Brant James Pitre • Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah

In his book, Quand les plantes n’en font qu’à leur tête (literally, When plants do as they please ), anthropologist Dusan Kasic explains that the term production “places humans ‘above ground’, on a pedestal and ‘outside of the world’, which has the consequence [...] of reinforcing human exceptionalism.” The notion of production, he argues, “disenga... See more

d-o-t-s • Against Soil-Less Life - Wonderground

So much here in terms of the bible quote “Dust to dust” and how we are animated beings in the world. If we hold ourselves above it and not as stewards of it, we run the risk of losing our natural order and humanity. In short, greenhouses are good in moderation (like most things), but perhaps more education on soil is needed.

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