On my (other) blog I posted another scathing review of the latest pro euthanasia film that will probably sweep the oscars.
If we are in a "war of civilizations", the war is not Christians vs Muslims but liberal secularist/islamofascists who see utopian governments/perfect humans/their own will as God's will versus Christians/Muslims/Jews/Buddhists who see life as a gift, family as important and God in control...
In one of Tolkien's letters to his son, he discusses marriage: (I paraphrase). People want the perfect soulmate, and divorce the one found imperfect in favour of a new soulmate that will make them happy.
But Tolkien is deeply Catholic: He says our marriage is God's will, and that the imperfect spouse may not turn out to be the perfect soulmate, but the one that will be best for us.
This made me pause. People don't realize that Tolkien's wife from the stresses of incertainty and the stresses of the hoity toity university life became more stressed out and rigid. Undoubtably there were other women who would have been glad to "rescue" him...no, there is no proof...but it makes one wonder where the character of Eowyn came from. One of his many nurses? One of his many female students (and as a married man, he was sent many women students to teach, since they could visit him in his home without a chaparone).
The idea we are sent our own wives by God for the greater good was also told to me by my own husband. He had a (dare I say) neurotic first wife, who he did not divorce since they had children and did not believe in divorce...he once said to me it was God's will that he fell in love with her, and then quickly out of love with her. Because if he loved her, he would not have worked quite so hard, and would given her all his money. As it was, he became a workaholic, and could keep the family comforable but still send money home to his extended family in the Philippines.
To be continued.
If we are in a "war of civilizations", the war is not Christians vs Muslims but liberal secularist/islamofascists who see utopian governments/perfect humans/their own will as God's will versus Christians/Muslims/Jews/Buddhists who see life as a gift, family as important and God in control...
In one of Tolkien's letters to his son, he discusses marriage: (I paraphrase). People want the perfect soulmate, and divorce the one found imperfect in favour of a new soulmate that will make them happy.
But Tolkien is deeply Catholic: He says our marriage is God's will, and that the imperfect spouse may not turn out to be the perfect soulmate, but the one that will be best for us.
This made me pause. People don't realize that Tolkien's wife from the stresses of incertainty and the stresses of the hoity toity university life became more stressed out and rigid. Undoubtably there were other women who would have been glad to "rescue" him...no, there is no proof...but it makes one wonder where the character of Eowyn came from. One of his many nurses? One of his many female students (and as a married man, he was sent many women students to teach, since they could visit him in his home without a chaparone).
The idea we are sent our own wives by God for the greater good was also told to me by my own husband. He had a (dare I say) neurotic first wife, who he did not divorce since they had children and did not believe in divorce...he once said to me it was God's will that he fell in love with her, and then quickly out of love with her. Because if he loved her, he would not have worked quite so hard, and would given her all his money. As it was, he became a workaholic, and could keep the family comforable but still send money home to his extended family in the Philippines.
To be continued.
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