It has long been a teaching in the Catholic Faith, as well as something recognizable in natural philosophy, that there is only one Truth. There is not a truth for you and a truth for me; a truth for science and a truth for religion, a truth for Monday and a truth for Tuesday. But the Church now teaches, with the authority of the Magisterium , according to D. C. Schindler in a brilliant essay on Pope Benedict's papal encyclical Deus Caritas Est , that there is only one love - that eros (passionate and affective love) and agape (disinterested love of neighbor) are really two aspects of the same thing - or really, two faces of the same God. This cuts right to the heart of our troubled world today. Schindler notes: Allan Bloom describes the boredom, the self-protectiveness, the banality, the absence of a sense of mystery and adventure, and the general disenchantment, that characterize a “de-eroticized” world such as that of contemporary America. Now hold on a minute, I can hear y...
Godot has finally arrived - but he's a multi-level marketing salesman and you can't get him to shut up.