tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post1461169134691467004..comments2023-09-03T10:27:50.770-05:00Comments on Personal Musings of Priestly Goth: My Own Personal PluralismCommunity of the Holy Trinityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15327079170088324442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post-33063537274924608972008-03-15T19:58:00.000-05:002008-03-15T19:58:00.000-05:00It is interesting that you pick up on the fear, an...It is interesting that you pick up on the fear, and that there is in your response a concern at least that the multiplicity is not whole or healthy.<BR/>While I think you are right that much of this has to do with constructs. I am not sure I would put the "false" in front of it. The assumption of homogeneity of the self may be a "false" assumption.<BR/>I note that your story is tinged with fear because when I mentioned something similar to the ECRA folks and turned our attention to that our society is more pluralistic than our inter-religious group, what it conjured up was the fear of those who are spiritual and not religious who might be what some might call "secular" and feelings of being misrepresented by this non-religious group.<BR/>I am not being coherent in this response I think I will come back to this. a little later.Community of the Holy Trinityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15327079170088324442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8605839.post-55829828326596541072008-03-13T11:36:00.000-05:002008-03-13T11:36:00.000-05:00When I moved to Iowa, I had the interesting proble...When I moved to Iowa, I had the interesting problem that people from the church I was going to be pastor of would be unloading my U-Haul while I was flying to Washington for two weeks. <BR/><BR/>What were they going to think of this pastor they didn't yet really know when they saw what he had? What were they going to think of my comic book collection? My swords? My action figures? If they looked in one of the boxes of books, what would they think of all the sci-fi I liked? I wasn't there to explain away the parts of myself that they wouldn't think were natural to a pastor.<BR/><BR/>I find it even more difficult when I am online. My blog has diverse things in it. But it is not diverse enough to capture everything, so I have three blogs. One for my sermons, one for my Supergirl project, and then my blog which has recently been mostly political, but has talked religion and popular culture and comics and movies and even goth at one point. When I look at my interests, they seem so diverse and somewhat incompatible, and yet I believe that they do come together into a whole and (mostly) healthy person.<BR/><BR/>So you raise an interesting question. I think perhaps it is that there are boxes that people want to fit us in, and we feel pluralistic when we don't fit into those boxes. But maybe it isn't as pluralistic as we fear, perhaps the boxes are false constructs.Gavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05577745025792490091noreply@blogger.com