La perte de foi

This morning in Compréhension and prise de notes we had to watch this documentary about a Swiss travel writer and discuss it afterwards. I can't remember the man's name. Bauvier? Something like that? Anyway, what was interesting was that he talked quite a bit about death in different cultures he had observed, which led us in our discussion to discuss French style cemeteries (basically gravel and headstones - think Dead Man's Gulch and you won't go far wrong) and western culture's loss of the ability to cope with death at all.

The lecturer said "It's because of the loss of faith in the west. Modern culture is culture without God and that means we cannot face death."

Amen, sister. Oops! I forgot. This is a secular language school.

I don't know if this is typical, but there's a lot of this kind of openness in the staff here. It is mixed, however, with every stereotypical catholic misconception (e.g. "Christianity sees the body as being evil.", "Christianity sees the right as being lucky and the left as being unlucky", Excuse me! Not the Bible, it doesn't!)

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Anonymous said…
I took two funeral sevices on mOnday this week. One of a dear brotehr , who died in his eighties. We could celbrate his lie and present whereabouts. It was a "happy" funeral. There were only a few tears of parting.The other of a woman also in her eighties, but who had died without Christ, as far as I am aware. There was only crying at her funeral. There was no hope!
5:06 am
Alan said…
"When we have done all we can for them, they still have to die." (DMLJ's words to his disapproving superior on leaving medicine for ministry)
6:48 am
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