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For this week’s blog post, I just want to take a moment to bask in the glory of the excerpt from A Memoir of Mary Ann. Just going over it in class, I felt like I could’ve stayed on it for the full hour and a half, but I’d like to focus in on the last part of the second paragraph and say THIS IS SO ACCURATE IT SICKENS MY STOMACH.
“In this popular pity, we mark our gain in sensibility and our loss in vision. If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance which is to say, of faith. In the absence of this faith now, we govern by tenderness.”
Today we see an increase of evil and loss of a common sense of truth and moral good and I feel as if it a can be linked to the consistent removal of God from every area. I find it hard to have an intelligent conversation with people without them getting upset about some statement being made, even and especially when factual. And especially, in age where we govern by "tenderness" we also kill innocent children.

But really. I can’t stop reading and re-reading this page. Thanks Dr. Abernathy.

Also, the parables (yes I read them, no I didn't know we needed to blog on them).
The first one sparked an interesting question within me, one I have an answer for but now causes me to reconsider the logical aspect of it's accuracy. Then, expecting that I'd get an answer in the second parable was only lead to another point of reconsider everything. Good short readings, can't wait to discuss them.

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  1. Will BradyFebruary 19, 2018 at 8:02 AM

    The Roman Catholic Church outlawed the Bible and ushered in the murderous Inquisition. French thinking became atheistic and the bloody French Revolution followed. European society as a whole grew secular and humanistic, and it sparked two world wars and the Holocaust, then gave rise to the genocidal Communist regime, unparalleled in violence. If the absence of faith leads to government by tenderness, I'd hate to see what government by harshness looks like.

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  2. Zelda PeachFebruary 19, 2018 at 12:03 PM

    I loved "A Memoir of Mary Ann" too! I was so sad that we did not get to have a blog post on Flannery O'Connor because honestly her writting was one of my favorite things I have ever read in honors. I think I will end up writting my reserch paper on her this semester.

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  3. Sophia ColbertFebruary 19, 2018 at 2:07 PM

    There comes a time in a person's life when they have to take a leap of faith. Humans will never be able to physically see or touch God because He does not have a physical body. You can't catch Him like the explorers tried to catch the gardener. While you can feel the Holy Spirit working in your life, you won't be able to shake His hand or see Him kindling the fire in your heart. Seeing is not believing, believing is seeing. People do not trust in God because they can see Him standing there, arms wide open. It's a leap of faith they have to take when His voice reaches their heart and says "Jump."

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  4. Michael TurnerFebruary 19, 2018 at 9:07 PM

    It is this "tenderness in government" that scares me the most. Our society tries to be tender to every major group or minority while condemning everyone in the majority for being "racist, bigoted, judgmental homophobes, etc." A little harshness in the meantime is not wrong. It keeps the government from overstepping. The NAZI party started out as a quiet group. Germany showed tenderness and BOOM Holocaust. Communism looked good on paper and worked well at first, but one man Or woman with too much power, and trying to share everything (even if some do not work for it) never ends well. Both groups pushed God out of the equation and look where it got them.

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  5. Natalie SchulerFebruary 19, 2018 at 10:40 PM

    I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who felt this way about both "A Memoir of Mary Ann" but also the Parables. "A Memoir of Mary Ann" really shook me up because of the blunt truth O'Connor speaks (writes?), but also because we were discussing it with a woman who literally flew halfway across the world to bring home a child not entirely unlike Mary Ann. Dr. Abernathy is an amazing woman.

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