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the HERALD Page 12B Religion Wednesday November Was Jesus a contrarian By JIM RYAN Herald Special 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 13 Jesus is a contrarian This is what Mark would say if he read Robert s new book An Inquiry into Morals What would Mark mean the above statement Well that Jesus attacks every static moral pattern that he can find He attacks every static moral pattern that he can find Yes Let me explain writes Each culture has its own pattern of static good demed from fixed laws and the tions and values that underlie them This pattern of static good is the essential structure of the culture itself and defines it Why does he attack if Because he finds that the static forms of the culture have become life denvmg rather than Okay hut what distinguishes Jesus from any other person take Lee Oswald for ex ample who happens to attack the law Well according to Oswald fits into what he calls the negative contrarians Negative contrarians Yes negative contrarians feel that a great wrong a great in justice has been done to them and that they can resole the injustice Religion and Reality by Jim Ryan b attacking the static moral norms or patterns So he Right Are there am other examples of Yes According to were all negatne from time to time For example no matter what we re supposed to do well that s the thing we least want to do Do know that feel trig How about morning Sometimes con tranans are into the ego thing think I too Important to be doing all this dumb static stuff Yeah that strue And sometimes con tranans become a static pattern of their own get on the negative contrarian roller coaster and the can t get off Okav about Jesus Well what calls a positive That makes sense If Lee Harvev Oswald is or decadent Jesus is Dvnamic Are those terms writes But sometimes its Dvnamic where whole being senses that the static situation is an of life itself That s what drives the reallv people the composers revolutionanes and the like the feeling that if thev don break out of this somebod has built around them re going to die But re not being contrarv in a that is just decadent The re too energetic and aggressive to be decadent re fighting for some kind of Dvnamic freedom from the static patterns But the Dynamic freedom is a kind of morahtv too And it s a highlv important part of the overall moril process It often confused w ith degeneracv but it actually a form of moral regeneration Without its con refreshment static pat tems simplv die of old age Interesting Endnote Robert Pirsig book An Inqmrv into Morals was published by Bantam in Nov ember of You might remember s first book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance It can be painful to remember EDITOR S NOTE Due to time and space constraints Rev Ruggles column with Remem Day as its theme was not able to appear prior to Day observed Monday across Canada B RICHARD RLGGLE St Pauls Church A lot of us aren t old enough to remember two world w Weve watched the coverage of the high tech weaponrv that was used m the Persian Gulf but most of the victims were on the other side and it all seems rather remote The annual observance of Remembrance Day reminds us that wars can command the energies of a nation for years on end and that its casualties can include your cousin your son or your neighbour next door Wars are fraught with frustra their missed opportunities and their waste of life and their can make them seem mere exercises in futility Yet they often seem inescapable Armistice Day as it has sometimes been known recalls the cease fire that ended the first world war on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the month of 1918 that war some people thought about the God who shares human suffering The German negotiator of the armistice Mr tiarourts For All Your Fine China Silver Crystal 227 MAIN ST MILTON 8780050 CLERGY COMMENT said that his ex was like a like the mountain where Jesus was crucified his as defeated humiliated and left to the ravages of revolution famine and disease A popular Canadian chaplain had similar thoughts Though Scott was too old to serve he managed to get erbeas He compared Jesus suf fenngtohisown For lonely graves along the Where sleep those brave hearts who for others died Tell of life union with the Crucified Along many European roads there are old wayside Calvarys statues of Jesus on the cross One wartime photograph is a wordless parable on the same theme It shows one of these crosses torn apart by machine gunfire Many of the men in the ches were not particularly religious Only a handful attend Clothing Mens Ladies Childrens ALTERATIONS REPAIRS 8771598 ed services on the Easter Day just before the battle of Vlmv Ridge when Canadian soldiers achieved the breakthrough that had eluded the British for so long But the men developed a sense of camraderte of looking out for one another Thev were capable at times of heroic deeds of put ting others before themselves And often asked what it was all about After the armistice the world faced new problems An epidemic took lives in Georgetown and around the world caused more fatalities than the war itself Depression and racial hatred created an at in which war erupted again It can be painful to remember the suffering that war has in flicted on people on civilians as well as God is somehow there in the midst of our pain as he was in the midst of theirs And our memories or the memories others share with us remind us how our generation has been shaped and call us to reflect on where we are headed Say I saw it in The Herald Georgetown 8779896 Minora Glass Futniture Sliding Mirror Doors Custom Mirror Installation Glass Replacement FREE IN HOME CONSULTATION AND ESTIMATES 8731230 a Geo ELECTRONIC SERVICE VCRiHOMECARSTEREOSP0RTABLESCDsTuRNTABLESVIDE0GAMES COMPUTERS- ETC DAY FREE 1 I FOR THE BEST SERV AT THE BEST PRICE GEORGETOWN CUSTOM CAR SOUND AN AHA IB Of 22 Remembrance Day address Rev Mary Campbell of Presbyterian Church addresses the crowds Sunday afternoon at the Georgetown Cenotaph during 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