It seems to me that ideologies like Catholic integralism or integration or integralism or whatever, that is, that these contemporary Catholic thinkers, and they, they can’t live with the fracture and the disorder of contemporary life. And rather than going to the foot of the cross, they try to go to the top of the dome. Rather than going to the foot of the cross, they try to go to the top of the cathedral. And they’re trying to cram everything in the world underneath this cathedral that they have constructed in their mind that harkens back to some alleged golden age, maybe in the Middle Ages when everything was neatly ordered under a vision of Christ that rose up to create these cathedrals. But I don’t know anything about history in that era much, but I do know how the world works, and it seems to me that any time something big and great like that gets built, it’s usually done by an egomaniac who collects money and harms the poor in order to create their vision of life. And it seems to me, as beautiful as those cathedrals are, they are tombs. They are tombs because they are the artifacts of spiritual death of people who would extort labor to build non-essential things. I hope I’m wrong, but I doubt it.
I mean, it seems on point to me. I mean, I think the thrust is right. I mean, I think there’s always nuance, but it seems to me like what you said makes it even more plausible. Like if they’re going pre-Vatican II and they’re trying to integrate the state and the church and put the state under the church, that to me is the same animating influence of the dome. It’s like we’re gonna, rather than Christ’s kingdom, which is scattered seeds, we’re going to build the Tower of Babel.
Boyd Camak 