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diff --git a/faith/centered-set-and-islam.rst.not_yet b/faith/centered-set-and-islam.rst.not_yet
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+Centered set and islam
+######################
+
+:status: draft
+:date: 2016-01-11
+:category: faith
+:tags: blueOcean, centered faith, christianity, islam, Allah
+
+.. zotero-setup::
+   :style: chicago-author-date
+
+When I described what I mean under the term `centered set faith`_
+let me add couple of comments on what I see as shortcomings of
+the bounded set faith.
+
+First of all, there is a problem with a bounded set thinking,
+that whether we want it or not, it usually centeres around
+“Christians like us”. I guess any Christian would flatly deny to
+do anything like that but on the other hand I have yet to find
+a Christian who would define a bounded set and then he would
+identify herself to be right on the edge of such set, or even
+outside of the bounds and doomed to eternally perish in hell.
+Most of the time the center of the Christian set seems to be
+quite close to the speaker’s position.
+
+Moreover, most of the time the bounded set concepts are used
+during investigation of questions like “Is X still inside the
+Christian set, or are they outside?” It seems to me that somehow
+the bounded-set thinking leads to predominantly judgemental
+attitude towards others. The centered-set model on the other hand
+firmly puts Jesus/God in the middle and so it is by default that
+we are not in the center, which leads to more *possibility* of
+self-criticism and humbleness.
+
+----
+
+Do I want to say that all Muslims, Jehova Witnesses, etc. are
+somehow at least a little bit Christians?
+
+----
+(11:38:01) Andrew Funka: I’m curious to hear more about your thoughts on Volf’s “Allah” book.
+(11:38:33) mcepl: I haven’t finished yet, so this is just preliminary.
+(11:39:41) mcepl: Really thought through book, the guy is really brilliant, nobody can say he is not well read on the topic (how many evangelicals now about Nicholas of Cusa?).
+(11:41:04) mcepl: the problem is that the structure of the book seems to be going from the most provocative to more normal-Christian (I don’t want to use labels “conservative”, “orthodox”, or “evangelical” because neither fits well with the book).
+(11:41:58) mcepl: so couple of times, when I screamed “you are missing this important point” I got in the following page (chapter) to his point “and yes, we have skipped over this problem, let’s deal with it now”, so perhaps some of my complaints about the book are caused I haven’t finished yet.
+(11:44:21) mcepl: I really really like that (comparing to almost everybody else) he really gets down and dirty by thinking about what does it mean to “worship”, what does it mean “same God”, what do we imply if we say that they don’t worship the same God (are they idol-worshipers?) Do Jews and Christians worship the same God? Do Christians worship the same God (answer is obvious: no!). A lot and lot of thinking, which I miss from almost everybody else.
+(11:47:48) Andrew Funka: When you finish with Volf, you might enjoy an article by Timothy Tennent (now president of Asbury Seminary in the USA) that I think does an excellent job of answering the question.  Sounds like Volf has it mostly covered.  And he does - there are some rather important things that he skips over, but I think he may have done so on purpose.  Perhaps I can borrow that book when you’re done and give it a good read to refresh my memory and have a good conversation about it. Cheers!
+(11:51:47) mcepl: and yet I have some problems with Volf (but perhaps he didn’t get there yet) … I believe when Muslims talk about “love of God” they mean mostly “mercy”, but I do believe that God loves us fully, not just with mercy (imagine, all you would feel towards Amy would be mercy).
+(11:55:03) Andrew Funka: Oh yeah, Allah as described in the Koran has some serious deficiencies of character compared to God the Father as described in the Bible.
+(11:55:24) mcepl: but as I said, perhaps I will yet get there
+(11:57:12) mcepl: the second is that Volf a lot around Sufism (which is apparently a way closer to the Christian relationship to God), but I am not sure how really close their thoughts are to the mainstream Islam.
+(11:59:28) Andrew Funka: All good points.  Keep in mind what Volf is trying to do, though - he’s looking for bridges, rather than defining the barriers.
+(11:59:54) mcepl: yes, and I applaud him
+(12:00:48) mcepl: also, the difference most Americans completely ignores, Muslims for him are personally mostly Bosniaks, who are I believe a bit different (and a way more friendly) than some loonies from Saudi Arabia/Pakistan.
+(12:03:57) Andrew Funka: Yeah, that’s one of the things he’s been criticized for regarding this book - that he leans too heavily on examples of, basically, “friendly” Moslems.  But again, he’s looking for the bridges, and the friendly guys are going to be a lot easier to begin working out something better with.  You aren’t going to get very far if you try to start with some ISIS fanatic.  But you might get to those guys eventually, in a positive way, by starting with the friendly and more open guys.
+(12:04:57) mcepl: (concerning ISIS fanatics … it is really questionable how much Moslems they are; UK police found in backpacks of some recruits “Islam for Dummies” ;))
+(12:07:52) mcepl: well, what I meant is that Volf (comparing to 99.99% of his critics) has actuall personal experience with Muslims.
+(12:07:59) Andrew Funka: Fanatics of every stripe are never following the orthodox stream of whatever it is they are fanatic about.  E.G. the Jewish Zealots in the time of Jesus, National Socialists and German nationalism, Donald Trump and the Republican Party…
+(12:08:37) Andrew Funka: Some of Volf’s critics are missionaries working undercover in closed Moslem nations…
+(12:09:05) mcepl: right, so their experience of Islam cannot be more radically different than his
+(12:09:23) Andrew Funka: Some of Volf’s more vehement critics are former Moslems.
+(12:10:14) Andrew Funka: Not sayin’ his critics are totally right, just that it’s a hot issue.  I think Volf brings a much-needed positive voice and perspective to the conversation.
+(12:10:46) mcepl: (as a former PhD in sociology and social psychology) I am afraid there is not small number of maladjusted youth who are clinging to various group identities to save themselves. The problem is that they are mostly ignored by everybody except when that group turns out to be ISIS. If they were just some weird Jehova Witnesses, or even more weird cult; or Anarchists, Skinheads, we wouldn’t make much fuss about it. Because they murderous Muslim fanatics everybody is up their arms.
+(12:14:38) Andrew Funka: Yeah, ISIS is the bad-guy of the decade.  They’re great bad guys for the sensationalized media of our time.
+
+.. _`centered set faith`:
+    {filename}/centered-set-thinking.rst
+
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYO0RtTOAiA
+
+.. bibliography::
diff --git a/faith/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst b/faith/chesterton-chaucer-luther.rst
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+On praise of Luther
+###################
+
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: theology, catholic, Luther
+
+During the most stimulating discussion in the last “Theology on
+Tap” we have discussed ecclesiology among other things based on
+the lecture by Gordon Isaac “`Luther’s View of the
+Church`_”. Luther’s view of the Church were the most
+interesting for me, because I have first presented in compelling
+manner opinions of non-evangelical ecclesiology.
+
+There was one thing I have not managed to express on Tuesday. G.
+K. Chesterton in his less known book “`Chaucer`_”
+
+
+----------
+
+Religio -- Middle Age managed to include into a rather Christian
+culture whole world, from the Knight all the way down to the
+Miller, but also from truly religious and pious all the way down
+to venal and other sinners. We have lost (during the
+Reformation?, Enlightenment?) this semi-Christian religio and
+replaced it with nationalism (?). Not a good bargain.
+
+
+.. _`Luther’s View of the Church`:
+    https://www.biblicaltraining.org/luthers-view-church/luther
+.. _`Chaucer`:
+    http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1300211h.html
diff --git a/faith/deus_absconditus.rst b/faith/deus_absconditus.rst
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+Deus absconditus
+################
+
+:date: 2019-12-28T06:11:55
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: sermon, czech
+
+
+    Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden, O God of Israel, 
+    deliverer!
+
+    -- Isaiah 45:15
+
+Protože je Bůh skrytý nevíme nikdy úplně jistě jaká je vlastně 
+situace -> zachovávajme spravedlnost na okamžité důsledky. 
+Procedurální v. materiální spravedlnost.
diff --git a/faith/frameworks-and-libraries.rst b/faith/frameworks-and-libraries.rst
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+Frameworks and libraries
+########################
+
+:status: draft
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:category: computer
+:tags: firefoxOS, javascript, webapps, brick, framework, libraries, import, ES6
+
+
+While reading the discussion_ “Why I hate frameworks” I think
+I’ve seen The Light™. I have finally recognized what is my
+biggest problem with the current style of the Web development
+(and consequently Firefox OS development). It is all about
+frameworks.
+
+Where do I see the distinction between frameworks and libraries?
+What I really want to do is to write program in whatever style
+and structure I want. Only that would be too much work to write
+everything myself (and in some cases, e.g., where numerical
+stability is concerned, I would need to study one or more
+universities to be able to write it), so I am glad that I can
+call on some libraries to help via their exactly defined APIs
+(and stable! I look at you, NodeJS & co.). However, still, I
+decide about the structure of the program and its whole design.
+Frameworks come from the other universe, the one of Microsoft
+Visual Basic and similar attempts, where the framework does
+everything and less-than-professional programmer just fills-in
+details in some text boxes (if available). It comes from the
+similar universe as whole ideal of CASE, RAD tools, UML,
+complicated IDEs (who are mostly ancestors of the Visual Basic
+idea anyway), etc.
+
+Crazy thing about the mobile development is that there are almost
+no libraries and everybody tries to writes their own version of
+framework.
+
+Or there are ... NPM.
+
+Even https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/ECMA
+Script_6_support_in_Mozilla admits no support for libraries in
+the current development of Firefox (and Mozilla is traditionally
+ahead with the development of JavaScript)
+
+Perhaps there is a hope in Web Components, but I don't believe it much
+... in the end what we are getting is https://github.com/mozbrick/brick
+again. It seems that all we get from Web Components is yet another framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Components (ReactJS? Polymer?)
+
+This doesn't mean I don’t want examples.
+
+.. _discussion:
+    http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431
+
+http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.290075.32
diff --git a/faith/generational-curse.rst b/faith/generational-curse.rst
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+Generational Curse
+##################
+
+:date: 2016-09-24T23:50:38
+:status: draft
+:category: computer
+:tags: tags
+
+    pro Čechy, ale nejenom pro ně
+        když i Češi, kteří toho zas až tak moc neprožili (respektive
+        už je to nějaká doba), jsou poškození, jak Židé, Indiáni,
+        uprchlíci ze Sýrie, Kambodže, atp.
+    beznaděj, odpuštění, obnovit důvěru
+        xx
+
+http://www.greatbiblestudy.com/generational_curses.php
diff --git a/faith/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst b/faith/letter-bkuhn-moral-absolutism.rst
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+Open letter to Bradley Kuhn on moral absolutism
+###############################################
+
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:status: draft
+:category: computer
+:tags: bkuhn, FLOSS, morality, absolutism, puritanism
+
+(this slightly edited composition of the email thread I have sent to
+`Bradley Kuhn`_)
+
+.. _`Bradley Kuhn`: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/
+
+Hi, Bradley,
+
+the common theme in my in this the moral absolutism (which I am not
+using as a swearword, being a Christian I am more against the more
+common moral relativism). The danger for each moral absolutist is that
+she has a tendency to lump all those who don’t measure up to her
+standards in the category of “heathens/proprietary software users” and
+not distinguish between them.  
+
+Listening to FaiF 0x43 I paused in surprise when you compared Leo
+Laporte to David Pogue. I don't know enough about the latter but
+I listen to many podcasts by the former, and I know that with some and
+few (expressly mentioned) exceptions all gadgets he presents are bought
+in ordinary stores for his own money (which was the cause of `his
+blow-up with Mike Arrington`_ ). Of course, now when TWiT is
+a multi-million company it is less of the problem with him, but I know
+he has done so always. Of course, I am also appalled by his love for all
+things Apple and sometimes lack of understanding intricacies of the free
+software world, but he is always expressly giving preference (when
+available) to open source (especially in the context of the security
+software) and he supports mostly out of his pocket `FLOSS Weekly`_ which
+is currently one of the best resources on FLOSS universe. I really don't
+think it is fair to lump him in one bag with David Pogue (about whose
+standards I know almost nothing, so I am not expressing my opinion about
+him).
+
+.. _`his blow-up with Mike Arrington`:
+    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laIvHUg35SQ
+.. _`FLOSS Weekly`:
+    http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/
+
+The second is the line in the John Sullivan's talk. I work for Red Hat
+so I know number of people in the Fedora Community and I know many of
+them are bit offended by the FSF refusal to mention Fedora on its list
+`Free GNU/Linux distributions`_. Comparing to other popular distros (I
+know it is for commercial reasons and not for goodness of our hears) we
+completely refuse to include any non-free non-firmware software in our
+distros and there is no link anywhere on any Fedora-controlled sites
+about non-free repositories. Moreover, I don't agree with FSF concerning
+firmware (I don't see much difference between microcode in chips and
+firmware blobgs ... so in order to be truly free you should be using
+only those Chinese MIPS notebooks; do you?), but ignoring this
+difference of opinions, I would think Fedora (and CentOS) would deserve
+some kind of special treatment, a bit different than Ubuntu or some much
+promoted Debian (with non-free repository alongside the free ones).
+
+.. _`Free GNU/Linux distributions`:
+    http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
+
+The same goes for CentOS. In this case the FSF distro list has actually
+a factual error -- it is not true that “there's no clear policy about
+what software can be included”. CentOS packages are only what’s in RHEL,
+which is always strict subset of what goes to Fedora, so there is pretty
+strict limit on what packages are included in CentOS. Yes, I know that
+RHEL itself has also supplementary packages which are non-free, so
+I admit that it shouldn't be on the list (well, it is way better than
+Debian, because there are way less packages provided in the
+supplementary repository, but that is just a distinction of quantity not
+quality), but there are quite certainly no packages provided by Red Hat
+for non-customers, and so CentOS consists only from packages with source
+code on the `Red Hat FTP`_.
+
+.. _`Red Hat FTP`:
+    ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/enterprise/
+
+The result of moral absolutism on the side of FSF (back to the original
+theme) is that free-distros page contains only more or less irrelevant
+distros (sorry, if certified on h-node could include for example
+`Thinkpad T430u`_ which has non-supported WiFi, then it is hardly
+something I can recommend to my friends). How much difference for the
+promotion of freedom has a distro which not many people can use? When
+was the last somebody was converted to the free software (or
+more-or-less free software) by Ututo? Of course, the same goes for
+Replicant_ ... what value is there in a phone OS which doesn't allow
+telephoning?^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hupdate: looking at Replicant status
+apparently telephoning is not such problem as WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS.
+Interesting.
+
+.. _`Thinkpad T430u`:
+    http://h-node.org/notebooks/view/en/1233/ThinkPad-T430u/
+.. _Replicant:
+    http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus
+
+These are my notes in the moment. Sorry, I just needed to vent
+somewhere.
+
+Best,
+
+Matěj
diff --git a/faith/local-morality.rst b/faith/local-morality.rst
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+Locality of morals
+##################
+
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: theology, priesthood, sin
+
+.. epigraph::
+    In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians,
+    Russians, etc.; I am even aware, thanks to Montesquieu, that
+    one can be a Persian. But, as for Man, I declare that I have
+    never met him in my life. If he exists, I certainly have no
+    knowledge of him.
+
+    -- Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France, 1797
+
+pass
diff --git a/faith/noty-z-Facebooku.rst b/faith/noty-z-Facebooku.rst
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+Různé poznámky z Facebooku
+##########################
+
+:status: draft
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:category: faith
+:tags: politics, czech, sociology
+
+(z diskuse 
+k https://www.facebook.com/josef.j.sykora/posts/802237643120887)
+
+Jaké výhody proti ostatním? Pokud bych byl Žid (a jak víte, že nejsem?
+Na Internetu nikdo neví, kdo je pes), nesměl bych nosit šábesdekl? Pokud
+jsem křesťan, tak nesmím nosit křížek? Kdybych byl řádová sestra (a
+kolik jich pracuje ve zdravotnictví), tak bych nesměl nosit hábit (který
+mimo jiné zahrnuje zahalení hlavy)? Co je to za nesmysl, že paní
+ředitelka může předepisovat co kdo smí a nesmí nosit na sobě? Uznávám,
+že u soustruhu se nesmí nosit šperky, dlouhé vlasy atp. aby se
+nezapletli do stroje, možná že existují nějaká rozumná omezení na
+sestřičky (kvůli hygieně a tak), ale pokud vím, tak sestřičky stejně
+nosí nějaký hadr na hlavě, tak nevidím důvodu, aby ten hadr nebyl hijáb.
+
+Co se týče islamizace Evropy. Ne, té se opravdu neobávám. Respektive,
+obávám se ji podstatně méně nežli postupující sekularizace. Obávám se
+toho, když ve Francii nesmí řádová sestřička na úřad (nebo do školy)
+v hábitu, a vy všichni bojovníci za evropské tradice neřeknete proti
+tomu ani slovo. Bojím se, když v Německu začne nějaký magor vykládat
+o tom, že by se Židům měla zakázat mužská obřízka novorozeňat (která se
+pochopitelně v dvacátém prvním roce provádí s umrtvením), protože se prý
+jedná o trápení dětí. Teď mu to neprošlo, ale což takhle někdy
+v budoucnu nebo někde jinde (kde nejsou lidé natolik zdravě přecitlivělí
+na cokoliv co byť jenom vzdáleně připomíná antisemitismus)?
+
+Co se týče té šaríji. Xenofobie (ano, dojde na Godwinův zákon) 
+je, jak věděl Goebbels nejúčinější nástroj, jak lidi přimět 
+k tomu, aby dělali co chcete. Řekněte Němcům že mají vyvraždit 
+šest milionů lidí a pošlou Vás do háje. Ale pokud v nich vyvoláte 
+strach, že budou ohrožováni ohavnými Židy, pokud jim vysvětlíte, 
+že za jejich selhání ve světové válce nemůžou ani oni, ani jejich 
+polodebilní císař, který je nahnal do nesmyslného konfliktu, ale 
+že oni hrdinný a statečný národ byli zrazeni, pokud budou mít 
+pocit, že bojují o svoje holé přežití, najednou morální zábrany 
+odpadnou (halt, abych ocitoval nesmrtelného soudce Pavla Kučeru, 
+když jde o zachování vlády, tak musí jít nezávislost justice 
+stranou) a evropské židovstvo vyvraždí.
+
+Čímžto chci říci, že ani jedna ze zmíněných holek nehodlala 
+nikoho z Čechů nutit k tomu, aby dodržovali cokoliv co jim 
+předepisuje jejich víra. Nikde jsem neslyšel o tom, že bych 
+nesměl halel maso, nikde jsem neslyšel o bombových útocích na 
+moravské vinice, nebo něco podobného.  Uvádím tak absurdní 
+příklady hlavně proto, abych ukázal jak absurdní je obávat se ze 
+šarijizace Evropy. Vidím zato zcela zřetelně právě probíhající 
+sekularizaci Evropy a vidím konstatní útok 
+levicovo-sekularizujících politiků na křesťanské kořeny Evropy 
+(kterými se jinak tolik zaštiťují a honosí). A vidím jak 
+xenofobie a rasismus jsou užitečnými nástroji k odvracení 
+pozornosti. Pokud se budou křesťané zabývat pomyslným nebezpečím 
+šaríi v Evropě, pokud se budou příslušníci různých věr považovat 
+za svoje největší nepřátele a budou se navzájem potýkat, odvrátí 
+se jejich pozornost o veřejné aktivity, a nebudou obtěžovat 
+sekularisticko-fašisticko-socialistické politiky v jejich tlačení 
+Evropy pryč od jejich křesťanských kořenů směrem k nesmyslným 
+vzdušným zámkům a utopiím které socialisté a fašisté všech 
+odstínů tak milují. Navíc také, pokud se křesťané budou věnovat 
+pomyslným nebezpečím, nebudou mít čas a kredibilitu obtěžovat nás 
+na naší cestě k zářné budoucnosti s nějakým evangeliem 
+(okultismus a homosexualita se také nabízí jako další kandidáti 
+na odvracení pozornosti; jistě, že pro někoho je to skutečně 
+aktuální, ale rozhodně to nejsou tak důležité problémy, jak mnozí 
+věří).
+
+V této situaci se podle mého musíme vrátit ke svým skutečným 
+hodnotám: lásce ke svobodě, přesvědčením o tom, že svoboda je 
+nedělitelná a pokud je ohrožována svoboda jednoho, je ohrožována 
+svoboda nás všech (připomínáme si 17. listopad, že?), přesvědčení 
+o tom, že účel nikdy nesvětí prostředky, ale naopak že správné 
+prostředky činí čistým účel ke kterému směřují; myslím, že si 
+znovu musíme připomínat Martina Niemöllera (který na rozdíl od 
+různých současných bojovníků za Evropu, kvůli evropským hodnotám 
+opravdu riskoval svůj život) a to, že musíme povstat na obranu 
+těch `prvních pro které přijdou`_ (přečte si ten odkaz a co 
+k němu měl pastor Niemöller co říci ... ještě lépe na anglické 
+Wikipedii, jste-li toho mocen), je to velice poučné.
+
+.. _`prvních pro které přijdou`: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdy%C5%BE_p%C5%99i%C5%A1li_nacist%C3%A9
+
+Jinak se omlouvám Dance za rozpoutání diskuse (ale to jsi pak tady
+neměla nic vystavovat, když nechceš aby ti to lidé okomentovali)
+a slibuji, že toto je poslední příspěvek do tohoto threadu.
+
+---------------------
+
+
+Miluju blížního svého ... grilovaného na rozmarýnu.
+
+K otázce lásky k muslimům
+
+a) Islám (a homosexualita) je zlo. Ale to neznamená, že muslimové (a
+homosexuálové) jsou zlí.
+
+b) Muslimové (a homosexuálové, atp., dále se budu bavit jenom
+o muslimech, ale myslím, že to je možné aplikovat na mnoho dalšího) jsou
+ze všeho nejvíce obětí islámu.
+
+c) Islám se nešíří různými zákazy a příkazy, stejně jako křesťanství se
+nešíří šířením “křesťanské morálky” (ať už je ta obluda cokoli). Stejně
+tak, lékem na islám není zakázáním “islámských” zákazů a příkazů (které
+nemají s islámem prý mnoho společného, ale jsou spíše produktem arabské
+kultury dnešní i minulé) a prosazování těch křesťanských (které stejně
+tak nemají s křesťanstvím mnoho společného, ale jsou spíše produktem
+různých období evropské kultury, dnešní i minulé).
+
+d) Jediným lékem proti islámu (a humanismu, konzumní společnosti,
+komunismu atp.) je osobní obrácení se k Pánu Ježíši.
+
+e) Mlácení hříšníka (v to zahrnuji i pomýleného) po hlavě cedulí "Ty jsi
+hříšník" nevede k pokání (Ř 2:4), ani v ředěné podobě.
+
+f) Vliv na druhého je úměrný hloubce vztahu. Tudíž “belonging precedes
+beliveing” (náležení (do nějakého křesťanského společenství) předchází
+věření). Nejprve je třeba s hříšníkem navázat vztahy, a teprve ve chvíli
+kdy jsou ty vztahu natolik hluboké že umožňují upřímnost a kritiku, je
+možné vést k Pánu Ježíši a (případně) k pokání.
+
+g) Několik zajímavých důsledků: každý křesťan by měl žít v zásadních
+a hlubokých vztazích s hříšníky (zejména pak s lidmi se kterými
+nesouhlasí ... kolik muslimů, homosexuálů, alkoholiků a cizoložníků jsou
+moji přátelé?), k lidem se kterými se neznáme bychom se neměli vůbec
+vyslovovat (kdo z nás zná ty muslimské holky ze zdrávky?)
+
+h) Nevychází z předchozího, ale myslím, že by bylo dobré zdůraznit:
+největším nepřítelem křesťanství v Evropě není islám, ale sekularizace.
+Pro ateismus je jenom prospěšné, když křesťané (a ostatní věřící)
+spotřebují veškerou energii na potyčky mezi sebou, čímž jednak ztratí
+energii na zasažení nevěřících zvěstí evangelia, dále ji dosti
+znevěrohodní (tohle fakt pro většinu nevěřících nevypadá jako projev
+lásky ... podle čeho že má svět poznat že jsme křesťané? Podle toho, že
+zakazujeme muslimkám nosit šátky a pochodujeme proti potratům?). Pro
+Zlého je to čistý zisk na všech stranách.
+
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6 ... Nejprve
+zakázaly šátky muslímům a já jsem nadšeně přizvukoval, protože nejsem
+muslim, pak zakázali chodit v hábitech na úřady jeptiškám (děje se dnes
+ve Francii) a já jsem mlčel protože nejsem katolík, pak zakázali obřízku
+v Německu (krátkodobý pokus, ale kdoví kdy se bude opakovat) a já jsem
+mlčel protože nejsem Němec a nejsem Žid, pak ...
+
+-----------------------------------------
+
+From https://www.facebook.com/melanie.kincl/posts/10151835652433425
+
+As part of my PhD in Boston I had an extraordinary opportunity to meet
+some quite awesome pastors from Roxbury, Mattapan and Jamaica Plains and
+most of them agreed that label which they accept most happily was
+“black”. I was a bit surprised, but in the end what it is all about is
+the color of the skin. Racism against them was not targeted because some
+of their ancestors (couple of hundred years ago) was from the continent
+of Africa, but because of the color of their skin. Also, I had
+a classmate from Kenya, who got into almost violent discussion with some
+local “African Americans” who claimed that she should not be called
+African American (although she was born in Africa and they were not).
+What being from Africa has to do with the history of oppression,
+slavery, Jim Crow laws? Not much, I am afraid.
+
+Also, Africa is not a culture. If you say about somebody that he is an
+Italian American, that means some kind of shared inheritance, food he
+prefers, perhaps some moral values, etc. What is the shared culture
+between Arab from Egypt, bushman from Kalahari desert, and somebody
+living in the slum in Nigeria? Bundling them all together as “Africans”
+is in my opinion result of much more racist prejudices and ignorance
+than calling people with very dark skin black.
+
+As a conclusion I have started to label black people as black, and
+I have yet to find anyone of them who would be offended by this (yes, of
+course, there is a possibility that they are afraid to tell me). The
+only people who were ever offended by this label were whites, which
+tells me something as well.
+
+Concerning Europeans who were born in Africa (or whose ancestors were).
+Well, why do you need to bundle them together in the first place? And if
+you do so, what is the characteristic which compels you to do so? Say it
+openly? Is it that they are immigrants (most of them, I believe are not
+from Africa, I believe), Muslims, seasonal workers, or is it really
+about the color of their skin (it rarely is)? If it is, then just call
+them black. We don’t have history of that horrible racism as in the US
+South (yes, we had slavery, but it was somewhere else and we fortunately
+stopped even that earlier), we have never had that horrible Jim Crow
+laws, so generally Europeans are not that sensitive to the anti-black
+labels (perhaps in France lately). Also, our racism is more targeted
+against Muslims, Ukrainians (especially here in the Central Europe, and
+that means anybody from the former Soviet Union) and (especially) Roma,
+so the experience is different.
+
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Z https://www.facebook.com/groups/2697452666/permalink/10151875826882667/
+
+I would agree a bit … I have met many Czechs who told me that they try
+to avoid Czechs when abroad. I wonder of that is
+Minderwertigkeitskomplex (feeling of inferiority) and trying to distance
+from being Czech when one can get lost in the crowd.
+
+However, I believe that most of this is a pose. For example, I remember
+that during the eighties absolutely stereotypical answer to the greeting
+“How are you?” was “Stojí to za hovno” (no, I won't translate it into
+English ;)), but I believe it was as mindless as “Fine, thanks” in US
+English. Does that “Fine, thanks” mean anything for Americans? I don't
+believe so.
+
+Already in 1940s Pavel Eisner commented that “Boemus dubitas ergo est”
+(Czech doubts, so he is) when commenting on one of Czech versions of
+“N’est-ce pas?” which was “…, tak já nevím” (“so I don’t know”)
+
+Hmm, so instead of refuting the article, I am more supporting it with
+evidence.
+
+Maybe, we are just different than you. Is every difference a daemon
+which needs to be exorcised? Should we all be Americans? I don’t know
+myself.)
+
+And you say we are too pessimistic when we see the true nature of life
+... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1zbgd6xpGQ ?
+
+------------------------------------------
+
+Z https://www.facebook.com/matcepl/posts/1382171065346068
+
+S tímhle bych souhlasil. Ale.
+
+1) Vím, že žádný mainline křesťan nevěří inspirovanosti Božího slova
+jako muslimové (i.e., anděl sedl a nadiktoval Mohamedovi Korán slovo od
+slova) resp. ortodoxní Židé (Mojžíš se slzami kanoucími psal o své
+budoucí smrti a Věčná Tóra existovala před stvořením světa). Ale asi
+jsem se od tohoto extrému posunul ještě více směrem k tomu, že Bible je
+svědectví lidí, kteří něco prožili s Bohem (samozřejmě z toho vyjímám
+prorocké spisy a všechny části, kde někdo cituje co mu Bůh doslova řekl,
+plus minus). Asi stále věřím, že z Bible k nám promlouvá Pán Bůh a že
+Bible je jediná kniha ze které k nám Pán Bůh promlouvá tak přímo, ale
+myslím, že jsem v tomhle hodně daleko od toho co jsem slyšel jako
+orthodoxii v charistmatických kruzích (např. Derekovy Základy).
+
+2) Hlavní problém ale spočívá podle mého v konstruktivismu. Já to mám ze
+světa sociologie (symbolický interakcionismus, pokud to někomu něco
+říká), ale něco podobného podle mého se prý dá najít u Kanta (kterého
+jsem zas tak důkladně nestudoval, znám spíše spisy o Kantovi nežli Kanta
+samotného). Lidé podle mého nejsou nikdy schopni poznávat věci samotné
+čisté (Dang an sich) ale každé naše poznání věci je hustě obaleno našim
+předporozuměním, významy které slovům přisuzujeme, hodnotovými soudy
+a smyslem který od objektu očekáváme. Nikdy nevidíme židli prostou
+významu který pro nás má (ať už jako možnost posezení nebo třeba příklad
+ve filozofické disputaci). Nebo řečeno ještě jinak (z pohledu
+sociologického) vždy vidíme pouze interpretaci věci o sobě. Přeneseno do
+světa chápání Bible, když někdo řekne „Bible nás učí, že …“ tak nám
+neřekne co nás učí skutečně Bible sama o sobě (protože to nikdy vědět
+nemůže), ale co pro něho daný oddíl Bible znamená pro daný problém, což
+je něco co si stvořil ve své mysli na základě toho co slyšel od svých
+rodičů, od svého pana faráře, co se říká na skupince, co si kde přečetl,
+atd. atp. Zdůrazňuji, nejsem pan Bělohradský, takže věřím v objektivní
+existenci věcí an sich (a to zahrnuje i Pána Boha, pochopitelně), ale
+pochybuji o jejich přímé poznatelnosti. Ostatně to je i něco co říká
+Pavel, že? „Nyní zajisté vidíme v zrcadle a skrze podobenství, ale
+tehdáž tváří v tvář“ A pochopitelně, já jsem to z dobrých knih
+a z diskusí s ostatními podstatně vzdělanějšími nežli já studoval
+několik let, takže pokud Vám tahle superzkratka na Facebooku nedává
+smysl je to jenom a jenom moje vina.
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+On Humanae Vitae
+################
+
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: cultureWar, catholic, infallibility, blogComment
+
+View in discussion
+Discussion on First Things 35 comments
+Humanae Vitae | Peter M. J. Stravinskas
+mcepl
+mcepl pt8685 6 days ago
+
+Which of course is completely irrelevant. When I am talking about NFP
+I don't mean the fact that ovulating woman are less likely (on unable?)
+to conceive. I am talking about NFP as a method to find out when that
+moment is. And in that aspect I found NFP as completely unreliable.
+
+mcepl pt8685 16 days ago
+
+Yeah, that’s a good one! I will surely remember it.
+
+Fortunately for us, my wife’s cycle used to be very regular. We could
+(and we did for couple of years) do just counting days as our
+contraceptive technique, because we knew always pretty surely where we
+are in the cycle. We have tried to do NFP as well, but even though we
+knew what actually is going on in her body we were never able to do any
+head and toes from temperatures or any physical signs on her body (I
+don’t want to get into too much gory details here). I was strictly
+against the Pill then, not because of the false dichotomy between NFP
+and contraception, but because I was worried to mix with my wife’s body
+while we still hoped to have more children, so I am very glad the days
+counting worked for us. What would we do with my wife’s cycle being less
+reliable, I don’t know, and I am very glad I didn’t have to deal with
+it. But certainly the last thing in the world would be to trust NFP.
+
+mcepl 18 days ago
+
+Could you please explain me how from your nonsensical babble on the
+verse about circumcision it follows that my wife should endanger her
+health (she has MS, so further pregnancy could very well lead to another
+attack), why my friend should endanger her marriage (their fourth child
+is severely disabled so taking care of her stretches the family to its
+limits)? Or is all your talk about sanctity of sex just nonsense and you
+really believe that all should lead the only really truly holy celibate
+life as you? I really believe that exactly such irresponsible nonsense
+leads to complete loss of credibility of the Catholics in any discussion
+on the contraception. Yes, I am angry, because of this nonsense we have
+lost all Catholics from the debate about the real issues of life into
+this cesspit of ignorance. Not mentioning that I actually love my wife
+and care about her more than about your infallibility.
+
+Discussion on Echo24.cz 43 comments
+Zajatci virtuality. Hloupý lidovec, Hitler a morální policisté
+mcepl
+mcepl Stanislav Cerman 9 days ago
+
+
+Předpokládám, že to je házení perel sviním, ale mezi panem Kalendou
+a Vašim nadáváním na komunisty vidím několik drobných rozdílů: pan
+Kalenda není jenom tak někdo, ale politik reprezentující stranu, která
+se tváří jako slušná; a jako taková ho má naprosto všechny práva na
+světě vyhodit ho ze svých řad, protože ji dělá ostudu. KDÚ jsem volil
+a pokud by s ním okamžitě nevyrazili futro, tak bych o jejich slušnosti
+velice vážně zapochyboval.
+
+Pokud Vám to nepřipadne správné, tak zkuste veřejně říkat nebo udělat něco co může silně poškodit Vašeho zaměstnavatele. Pak nám sdělte co bude následovat.
+
+Nevím, jestli to myslel vážně (a popravdě řečeno mě to ani moc
+nezajímá), ale jako politik se dal do kšeftu s image a pokud to nevěděl,
+tak v politice nemá co dělat.
+
+Další rozdíl je v tom, že pravděpodobně se mu nestane nic dalšího než že
+odejde z politiky (alespoň doufám, že to udělá, a neskončí u někoho
+jiného), najde si nějaké poctivé zaměstnání, a bude alespoň svobodný
+říkat kde chce co chce.
+
+Gay Marriage and Religious Freedom | R. R. Reno
+
+BTW, I have to also mention this ... I have incredibly strong feeling
+that before we can talk about that speck of the tax non-exemption, there
+is a log all believers should take care of. What about that?
+
+Before we can cry how we have God-given right of being tax exempt (we
+don't), we should probably acknowledge a terrible abuse which does
+happen with this right. I have no clue what to do about it, but it seems
+a bit hypocritical not to mention it.
+
+I am afraid the author puts the question in a wrong order. It should not
+be "Why to support religious non-profit organizations?" (we should
+support them of course), but "Why not to suppport non-religious NGOs?".
+And I don't think he gives a good answer on the latter.
+
+---------------
+
+I won't give you chapter and verse, but get yourself into Desert Fathers
+or some more ascetic literature and you'll get that. However, exact
+quarrel about this was not the point of what I wanted to say.
+
+I will happily let you, Catholics, to fight this among yourselves.
+http://lmgtfy.com/?q=humane+vi... and you will find hundreds of opinions
+(including some of them from seemingly quite authoritative authors).
+Having no interest in getting into that debate myself too much, let me
+stand aside.
+
+Besides, somebody here corrected me that my problem is not that much
+papal infallibility as much as infallibility of magisterium.
+
+mcepl LeoXIII 21 days ago
+
+Medicine is denying the will of God, until the middle ages many in
+Christendom agreed with this. How dare you stop somebody from dying when
+the God decided that one should die?
+
+What I am trying to say is that with this silly absolutes, you won't get
+far in the discussion. And, BTW, the argument about stopping a wife from
+conceiving as against the will of God doesn’t seem to me that much
+different.
+
+mcepl Iowa_Lawyer 22 days ago
+
+Thank you for very thoughtful and concise reply. Could you elaborate,
+please? Perhaps I am not as ignorant as you try to make me?
+
+
+I completely agree that behind Humane Vitae lurks a way deeper issue and
+that is the infallibility of pope/magisterium. I am not a Catholic
+myself (and even less I am a theologian), but I believe that the papal
+infallibility is one of the biggest problems for the credibility of the
+Church in the Western world. Anyway, as I said I am not a Catholic so
+the issue of papal infallibility (and confused misunderstanding of the
+distinction between the Universal and Roman-Catholic Church, which I am
+afraid is one of the sources of the papal infallibility) are not much
+interest of me.
+
+What is the interest and what I see as the very evil fruit of Humane
+Vitae is that by pushing the official Catholic doctrine to the
+indefensible corner and discarding any credibility of Catholics to talk
+on the reproductive issue for any non-Catholic, there is now missing
+voice in the discussion. I do believe that abortion is a murder, and
+I do believe (and I did promise in my marriage vows), that accepting
+children God gives us is an inseparable part of the marriage. However,
+neither of these positions is absolute (e.g., even the civil law knows
+that there are situations when killing of other person is legitimate;
+isn't the situation when the life and health of the mother is in danger
+one of these?) and I believe there is need for continuous discussion on
+the topic. I would love to have voice of conservative Catholics
+participate in such discussion. Unfortunately, they are mostly silenced
+because of the lost credibility and inability to formulate any other
+opinion than blindly recite Humane Vitae’s dogmatic statements.
+
+I would be grateful for HV to be one voice in the discussion, but it
+seems obvious that some of its statements turned out to be too extreme
+and they should be moderated or elaborated. Unfortunately they cannot be
+because popes consider themselves to be better than other humans and so
+they cannot say “I am sorry, this was a bit off” about some deeds of
+their predecessors. Enough, I am starting to be too aggressive.  2
+
+-----------------
+
+Luther Reading Challenge | Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
+
+Just when talking about Luther I have to mention
+https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/039... … one of the five books which changed
+most my life.
+
+
+-------------------------
+
+Discussion on Catholic Authenticity 26 comments
+My Libido: A Mosquito
+
+Well, for one “asexual” is for the other one gifted with the gift of
+celibacy (1 Corinthians 7:7-9). And of course, it is just right and
+proper if every Christians follows his/her calling. However, I have
+problems (yes, I am a Protestant) when the calling is exchanged with the
+office. E.g., it is my opinion that John Wesley (the great English
+leader of the Methodist revival in the 18th century) had a gift of
+celibacy, because he came rationally to the conclusion that a pastor
+should give an example to his parishioners and be married (although he
+lived for many many years without a significant problems and his
+ministry schedule could be an example for 1Co 7:32b how he was incapable
+of maitaining a good married relationship). Although I don't think he
+ever did anything immoral, I am also afraid that his marriage was more
+or less disaster. And of course, I am afraid, that the similar mistake
+(just in the other direction) is a case for many Catholic priests.
+
+mcepl captcrisis 2 months ago
+
+Well, Augustine had (especially around sexuality) his own issues, what
+I meant was that Bible is here remarkably egalitarian ... “husband does
+not have authority over his own body”.
+
+mcepl 2 months ago
+
+> I was complaining to God about what a lustful, brutish, inconsiderate
+> lout he was
+
+Yes, I have to admit that being a guy with similar low libido (actually,
+as a former lawyer there are moments when I can very much prefer exactly
+Lex Visigothorum to my wife ;)) I can understand the author's cited
+feelings. Except, the Bible has something else to say about this:
+
+> For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the
+> husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own
+> body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another ... [exceptions
+> follow]
+
+So much for the Paul's supposed preference for celibacy!
+
+Which are exactly the moments, when I would rather throw the Holy Bible
+out of the window. Choosing the obedience to it may be quite difficult
+at times.
+
+----------------
+
+Liberal Limits—and Our Opportunity | Brandon McGinley
+
+Exactly, I am not an American myself (only have a law degree from US
+university), so I may not have facts correct, but from the legal point
+of view the abandonment of the US Constitution (which requires
+a Constitutional Amendment for the large scale changes of constitution)
+started somewhere with FDR ("general welfare" was understood as a right
+to ignore all limits on the executive power; show me in the
+Constitution's enumerated powers place for FCC, SEC, etc.?) or with
+Brown v. Board of Education (however I like its holding, of course, it
+was going around the legislative process as well). Roe v. Wade and
+similar disasters just walked on the path already prepared.
+
+Isn't strange that the last amendment with the serious implications of
+the life of ordinary people was 19th (that's 1920)?
+
+----------------
+
+Discussion on First Things 60 comments
+The Church and the “New Normal” | George Weigel
+
+Does
+
+> But too much of the Church’s clerical and lay leadership lost its
+> nerve after Humanae Vitae.
+
+Do you mean that you are sorry for too much energy spent on defending
+this encyclical? That would be an interesting thought, which I would
+tend to agree with.
+
+----------------
+
+Discussion on First Things 10 comments
+Liberalism and the Church | David T. Koyzis
+
+I don’t think you are quoting Locke in the right context. In his essay
+on understanding he explicitly tried to look at the religion from the
+political/legal point of view, and he expressly didn't want to
+distinguish between Christianity and Islam or other religions, and he
+didn't want to make a theological statement. From such point of view
+I believe it is perfectly legitimate to consider all religions only as
+a civic associations, ignoring their revealed part.
+
+Just to the contrary there is a strange link between political
+liberalism of the nineteenth century and rather personal faith. Lord
+Acton seems to me for example way more involved in his faith than for
+example Burke (as much as I admire his political thoughts), who quite
+passionately disliked all kinds of Christian enthusiasm, because
+religion was for him mainly bearer of tradition (see his comments on
+Methodism).
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+Sharks, jellyfish, and the bad news
+###################################
+
+:status: draft
+:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00
+:category: faith
+:tags: LGBT, homosexuality, blue ocean, centered faith
+
+Couple of comments while reading `this blogpost`_ by Dave Schmelzer and
+linked `position paper of Vineyard USA on LGBT issues`_.
+
+.. _`this blogpost`:
+    http://theblueoceanblog.org/jesus-good-hijacked-todays-controversies/
+.. _`position paper of Vineyard USA on LGBT issues`:
+    http://vineyardusa.org/site/files/PositionPaper-VineyardUSA-Pastoring_LGBT_Persons.pdf
+
+First completely nonsensical nitpick: as far as I know (and I may
+be wrong, but if I recall correctly I read it in some book by
+Philipe Cousteau) sharks have to swim because they don’t have
+operculum so they have to make water flow through their gills,
+otherwise they suffocate_ . Not that it would matter that much
+for Dave’s argument.
+
+.. _suffocate:
+    https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090820085118AAaL3jP
+
+But to the more interesting stuff. From the position paper:
+
+   William Shakespeare in his play, Twelfth Night, said this: Be
+   not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
+   greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
+
+This is funny. Did they actually read the Twelfth Night or did
+they see it in a theater? Do they recognize that this whole
+quotation was not meant seriously but just as a bait for
+Malvolio? And if we ignore this strangeness, when following their
+argument, they could say just as easily that they want to discuss
+LGBT issues, because everybody else does it. I am not sure that
+it is the right reason, but anyway.
+
+OK, this is too long. I won’t have time to read all ninety
+pages. So back to Dave.
+
+I completely accept his argument that we should live in the
+centered set, but it seems to me it is a bit difficult to see the
+proper point of the post without getting lost in the juicy world
+of the relationship between homosexuality and the Christian
+faith. One strikingly interesting thing (at least for me) is that
+the whole post is completely meta-discussion. It does not discuss
+the Dave’s actual opinion on homosexuality itself at all. It
+seems that Dave has some homosexual friends, so he has to have at
+least some positive attitude towards them, but there is no
+biblical discussion on the matter itself. I have missed this when
+reading the post for the first time, and I got completely lost in
+the fiery discussion of the point which was not there at all.
+
+Let me thus start from somewhere else. We just returned a couple
+of days ago from a very friendly visit to our very conservative
+Christian friends. Although I tried to avoid it, I made some
+unfortunate comment about the Muslims and Christians praying
+together in my “local” Catholic church (of course, not being
+a Catholic makes this term a bit nonsensical). The result was an
+explosion of rather unbelievably harsh and ungrateful
+declarations about Muslims, among which the persuasion that
+Muslims and Christians praying together is just a masquerade for
+Muslims to achieve their dominance […]. It seemed to me very
+much like the antisemitism by Chesterton (or any proper
+Englishman of that time, I suppose). We can see how these
+attitudes could lead to Auschwitz, but it is unfair to judge them
+through the lenses of gas chambers, because they really did not
+know about the Holocaust, and they would be quite certainly
+against it with all their might. So, most of what my Christian
+friends talk vis-a-vis Muslims is absolutely horrible and
+despicable, but most of these people know nothing about the
+racism and they have never seen it in its most ugly ends, so they
+still feel free to play with those most horrible ideas, not
+knowing that it is an dynamite just ready to explode.
+
+However, only now, when I read the Dave’s post for the second
+time, I have recognized how contemporary and acutely needed it is
+now. And how much, by living among the bounded Christians, I lost
+a bit of the healthy perspective.
+
+security of the bounded set
+
+---------------------------
+
+One of the most important things which helped me to understand my
+attitude towards homosexuality was proper understanding of what
+the sin is.
+
+I understand the centered set thinking correctly, than obvious
+interdicts in the Bible should not be understood as zaps (and
+even less used as such to zap others), but as an advice why
+following the banned path will lead out of the center, Jesus, and
+the life in fullness (John 10:10). So, we should not steal
+because God would smite us, but because although it may seem
+tempting it is not a blessed God’s path to achieving fullness
+of life.
+
+-------------------------
+
+    When orders are issued in other spheres of life there is no
+    doubt whatever of their meaning. If a father sends a child to
+    bed, the boy knows at once what he has to do. But suppose he
+    has picked up smattering of pseudo-theology. In that case he
+    would argue more or less like this: “Father tells me to go
+    to bed, but he really means that I am tired, and he does not
+    want me to be tired. I can overcome my tiredness just as well
+    if I go out and play. Therefore though father tells me to go
+    to bed, he really means: ‘Go out and play’.” If a child
+    tried such arguments on his father or a citizen on his
+    government, they would both meet with a kind of language they
+    could not fail to understand–in short they would be
+    punished. Are we to treat the commandment of Jesus
+    differently from other orders and exchange single-minded
+    obedience for downright disobedience? How could that be
+    possible!
+
+    -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, chapter. III.
+
+---------------------------
+
+Theological perspective is proposed and wins the day. It does
+just great for however long, but then its blind spots become
+evident and there’s pushback about it. The pushback ends up
+being too corrective, an over-reaction, so it too ultimately gets
+pushed back with something that itself is too corrective and
+over-reacting. And there lies the history of theology.
+
+Unfortunately, theology matters. And people who create bad
+theology and a lot of mess around themselves are usually not bad
+people. Liberal theology ...
diff --git a/faith/1_zari_1939.rst b/literature/1_zari_1939.rst
index bad908c..10a84c1 100644
--- a/faith/1_zari_1939.rst
+++ b/literature/1_zari_1939.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ############
 
 :date: 2017-03-08T23:18:46
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: czech, poem
 
 W. H. Auden
diff --git a/faith/HP-sci-fi.rst b/literature/HP-sci-fi.rst
index 36b864b..59254e6 100644
--- a/faith/HP-sci-fi.rst
+++ b/literature/HP-sci-fi.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ HP fanfiction as sci-fi
 #######################
 
 :date: 2021-12-18T10:39:21
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, sci-fi
 
 (my comments on the Reddit thread “`What if there's no magic gene?`_” by 15_Redstones)
diff --git a/faith/ad_magical_love_affair.rst b/literature/ad_magical_love_affair.rst
index 1b94ee4..24846d5 100644
--- a/faith/ad_magical_love_affair.rst
+++ b/literature/ad_magical_love_affair.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Ad “A magical love affair”
 ##########################
 
 :date: 2018-12-16T17:05:39
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on “`A magical love affair`_” by charmed9292)
 
diff --git a/faith/another-christianity-HP.rst b/literature/another-christianity-HP.rst
index 8eb7bff..086ba61 100644
--- a/faith/another-christianity-HP.rst
+++ b/literature/another-christianity-HP.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Ad “My theory on Christianity in the Wizarding World”
 #####################################################
 
 :date: 2020-06-23T10:52:13
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, HPreligion
 
 (my comments on “`My theory on Christianity in the Wizarding
diff --git a/faith/another_on_animagus.rst b/literature/another_on_animagus.rst
index 24e2274..86c9254 100644
--- a/faith/another_on_animagus.rst
+++ b/literature/another_on_animagus.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Another comments on the Accidental Animagus & al.
 #################################################
 
 :date: 2020-04-07T09:39:17
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on `the thread`_ “What are your thoughts on the
diff --git a/faith/anti-harmony.rst b/literature/anti-harmony.rst
index c20e4e9..148c786 100644
--- a/faith/anti-harmony.rst
+++ b/literature/anti-harmony.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Anti-Harmony or Notebooks and Letters
 #####################################
 
 :date: 2019-06-15T18:17:42
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on “`What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and 
diff --git a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst b/literature/aristotle-unities.rst
index fa2a34d..0e4fc73 100644
--- a/faith/aristotle-unities.rst
+++ b/literature/aristotle-unities.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Harry Potter and Aristotle
 ##########################
 
 :date: 2018-11-15T12:56:20
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter
 
 Aristotle in the seventh and eighth chapter of his Poetics 
 writes:
diff --git a/faith/augurey.rst b/literature/augurey.rst
index a376f66..44470fe 100644
--- a/faith/augurey.rst
+++ b/literature/augurey.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Augurey or loosing of sanity
 
 :date: 2019-08-28T16:51:33
 :modified: 2020-04-13T11:18:25
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`The Augurey`_” by La Matrona, originally 
diff --git a/faith/book-of-strange-new-things.rst b/literature/book-of-strange-new-things.rst
index 1278389..5206d16 100644
--- a/faith/book-of-strange-new-things.rst
+++ b/literature/book-of-strange-new-things.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Review of “The Book Of Strange New Things”
 
 :date: 2017-01-04T16:34:42
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: tags
 
 The book called “`The Book Of Strange New Things`_” [#]_  by
diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york.rst
index 87a278a..ba1a335 100644
--- a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york.rst
+++ b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Live like you are not a Christian
 #################################
 
 :date: 2020-06-28T18:35:24
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, HPreligion
 
 (my comments on “`Breakfast in New York`_” by Radaslab)
diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst
index 4da3e12..f8eeb14 100644
--- a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst
+++ b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york_02.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ One more on “Breakfast in New York”
 ###################################
 
 :date: 2021-03-23T14:08:24
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, characterDevelopment, zettelkasten, catholic
 
 (second round of my comments on “`Breakfast in New York`_” by
diff --git a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_03.rst b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york_03.rst
index 92fb58d..18d833f 100644
--- a/faith/breakfast_in_new_york_03.rst
+++ b/literature/breakfast_in_new_york_03.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Overall post on “Breakfast in New York”
 #######################################
 
 :date: 2021-04-14T11:21:04
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (cover letter for presenting my reviews of “`Breakfast in New
diff --git a/faith/broken_dumbledore.rst b/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst
index 72d4006..c1c27de 100644
--- a/faith/broken_dumbledore.rst
+++ b/literature/broken_dumbledore.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Broken Dumbledore
 #################
  
 :date: 2022-07-30T11:52:30
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
  
 (my comments on “`Anger and Albus Dumbledore`_” by u/HorseLaw14)
diff --git a/faith/dark-magic.rst b/literature/dark-magic.rst
index c9af6fa..e8f46fa 100644
--- a/faith/dark-magic.rst
+++ b/literature/dark-magic.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Foundations of The Dark Magic
 #############################
 
 :date: 2021-02-06T09:11:36
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on “`The Light and the Dark`_” by Uncommonality)
diff --git a/faith/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst b/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst
index ed7c139..dd1532d 100644
--- a/faith/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst
+++ b/literature/disappearance-lizzy-bennet.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ The Strange Disappearance of Lizzy Bennet
 #########################################
 
 :date: 2023-07-24T16:51:33
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, Austeniana, blogComment, fromReddit
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`The Strange Disappearance of Lizzy Bennet`_” by HelenaMira, originally 
 published on Reddit_)
diff --git a/faith/dudley-has-witch.rst b/literature/dudley-has-witch.rst
index 8999b5e..2991394 100644
--- a/faith/dudley-has-witch.rst
+++ b/literature/dudley-has-witch.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Dudley has a witch as a daughter
 ################################
 
 :date: 2018-10-26T10:28:12
-:category: faith
-:tags: HarryPotter, review, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, review, blogComment
 
 (review of `Must Have Changed A Lot`_)
 
diff --git a/faith/geeky_mary_bennet.rst b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst
index 30162cc..0224db5 100644
--- a/faith/geeky_mary_bennet.rst
+++ b/literature/geeky_mary_bennet.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Geeky Mary Bennet
 #################
 
 :date: 2023-06-25T18:03:43
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, Austeniana, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, austeniana, blogComment
 
 I have originally commented on “`Mr. Collins, a male lead??? Is
 this possible?`_” by u/JenniferRAKim on That Site, but now I
diff --git a/faith/good-petunia-stories.rst b/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst
index 2e84f83..d8cc960 100644
--- a/faith/good-petunia-stories.rst
+++ b/literature/good-petunia-stories.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Good Petunia Stories
 ####################
 
 :date: 2021-02-12T17:22:29
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten
 
 (my Reddit post “`LF: Petunia is a witch afterall`_”)
diff --git a/faith/gratitude-for-normal.rst b/literature/gratitude-for-normal.rst
index f49c612..85f0570 100644
--- a/faith/gratitude-for-normal.rst
+++ b/literature/gratitude-for-normal.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ What We Were Made For: Gratitude For Normal
 ###########################################
 
 :date: 2017-06-08T17:07:40
-:category: faith
-:tags: HarryPotter, review, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, review, blogComment
 
 (unfortunately, FanFiction.net allows only one review per
 chapter, so I was not able to add this to my review of
diff --git a/faith/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.rst b/literature/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.rst
index e8f0ea6..f4503ba 100644
--- a/faith/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.rst
+++ b/literature/harry-potter-odpoved-brachovi.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Harry Potter … poznámky jako odpověď
 ####################################
 
 :date: 2017-02-18 12:24:13+0100 
-:category: faith 
-:tags: HarryPotter, review, czech, feminism
+:category: literature 
+:tags: harryPotter, review, czech, feminism
 
 Argonantus napsal poměrně rozsáhlou recenzi_ všech románů Harryho 
 Pottera. Pokusím se zachovat starověce a dodat dostatečně dlouhé 
diff --git a/faith/harry-potter-teacher-DADA.rst b/literature/harry-potter-teacher-DADA.rst
index 432439c..b2e22fe 100644
--- a/faith/harry-potter-teacher-DADA.rst
+++ b/literature/harry-potter-teacher-DADA.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Harry Potter as the teacher of DADA
 ###################################
 
 :date: 2017-01-22T23:45:21
-:category: faith
-:tags: HarryPotter, review
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, review
 
 I just want to shout loud agreement with many_ these_ negative_
 reviews_ of “`Harry Potter and the Cursed Child`_”. It is really
diff --git a/faith/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst b/literature/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst
index 53a857f..bf9696a 100644
--- a/faith/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst
+++ b/literature/hermione_granger_paradigm_shift_jewish.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Hermione Granger and the Paradigm Shift … one more thing
 
 :date: 2019-11-29T15:14:17
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (instead of the review for “`Hermione Granger and the Paradigm 
diff --git a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst b/literature/hinny_siblings.rst
index 9892e02..1530fcf 100644
--- a/faith/hinny_siblings.rst
+++ b/literature/hinny_siblings.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Harry and Ginny as siblings
 ###########################
 
 :date: 2019-07-15T23:07:27
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, plotBunny, fromReddit
 
 Originally published as “`Harry & Ginny are brother and sister`_”
diff --git a/faith/historical-hp.rst b/literature/historical-hp.rst
index 99a509f..63f26b5 100644
--- a/faith/historical-hp.rst
+++ b/literature/historical-hp.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Historical Harry Potter stories
 ###############################
 
 :date: 2021-05-30T07:56:58
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on the reddit thread “`Fics like Starnlicht?`_” by
diff --git a/faith/hp_and_sayers.rst b/literature/hp_and_sayers.rst
index 5a94881..48fb712 100644
--- a/faith/hp_and_sayers.rst
+++ b/literature/hp_and_sayers.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Harry Potter and Dorothy Sayers
 ###############################
 
 :date: 2020-04-07T10:22:27
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on `the thread`_ “Overused tropes” by
diff --git a/faith/hp_redemption.rst b/literature/hp_redemption.rst
index a482aaa..adc4f65 100644
--- a/faith/hp_redemption.rst
+++ b/literature/hp_redemption.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ How redeemable is canon Draco Malfoy?
 #####################################
 
 :date: 2019-12-08T22:24:29
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (originally posted_ on Reddit)
diff --git a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst
index c3b8709..3be899b 100644
--- a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst
+++ b/literature/intro-to-femHarry.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys
 #################################
 
 :date: 2020-03-16T09:09:21
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`LF Fics to introduce me to fem!Harry by
diff --git a/faith/letter-from-minerva-to-father.rst b/literature/letter-from-minerva-to-father.rst
index 1988df9..70bc61a 100644
--- a/faith/letter-from-minerva-to-father.rst
+++ b/literature/letter-from-minerva-to-father.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Letter from Minerva McGonagall to her father, Reverend Robert McGonagall
  
 :date: 2022-09-06T16:54:29
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
  
 (from the conversation on `the HPfanfiction subreddit post`_ with
diff --git a/faith/loving-vincent.rst b/literature/loving-vincent.rst
index 5a0540b..79700d2 100644
--- a/faith/loving-vincent.rst
+++ b/literature/loving-vincent.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Loving Vincent
 ##############
 
 :date: 2018-03-22T08:03:28
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, film
 
 Movie_ “Loving Vincent” is certainly an experience worthy of the 
diff --git a/faith/magicians-realism.rst b/literature/magicians-realism.rst
index 23f83fe..cfc7c53 100644
--- a/faith/magicians-realism.rst
+++ b/literature/magicians-realism.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Magicians’ Realism
 ##################
 
 :date: 2021-01-02
-:category: faith
-:tags: HarryPotter, review, blogComment, realism
+:category: literature
+:tags: harryPotter, review, blogComment, realism
 
 (thoughts after listening to the episode “`Victorian Realism`_” 
 of the BBC’s In Our Time, originally developed as a review of 
diff --git a/faith/molly-weasley-potion-mistress.rst b/literature/molly-weasley-potion-mistress.rst
index 85101cc..d08e8eb 100644
--- a/faith/molly-weasley-potion-mistress.rst
+++ b/literature/molly-weasley-potion-mistress.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Molly Weasley, the Potion Mistress?
 ###################################
 
 :date: 2022-11-17T11:48:52
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (a record of discussion about the topic on the Reddit thread
diff --git a/faith/mreview-Grow-Young-w-Me.rst b/literature/mreview-Grow-Young-w-Me.rst
index 26e754f..58a15a7 100644
--- a/faith/mreview-Grow-Young-w-Me.rst
+++ b/literature/mreview-Grow-Young-w-Me.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Micro review of “Grow Young with Me” by Taliesin19
 ##################################################
 
 :date: 2020-11-19T12:08:29
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my reaction_ to the published review_ of “`Grow Young with Me`_”
diff --git a/faith/muggle-centered-fics.rst b/literature/muggle-centered-fics.rst
index 5c5eafd..b7fe8c6 100644
--- a/faith/muggle-centered-fics.rst
+++ b/literature/muggle-centered-fics.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Muggles-centred Harry Potter fanfiction stories
 ###############################################
 
 :date: 2020-11-19T12:03:05
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten, muggle
 
 (my comments during the thread “`Stories where Ginny is actually
 nice to Harry’s girlfriend?`_” by `/u/AcerbicOrb`_)
diff --git a/faith/namorni-slepota_review.rst b/literature/namorni-slepota_review.rst
index 5a868b6..f29d17f 100644
--- a/faith/namorni-slepota_review.rst
+++ b/literature/namorni-slepota_review.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Námořní slepota, pokus o review
 ###############################
 
 :date: 2022-12-24T17:29:17
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :status: draft
 :tags: czech, politics
 
diff --git a/faith/no_superheroes.rst b/literature/no_superheroes.rst
index 8cf023a..b91c04d 100644
--- a/faith/no_superheroes.rst
+++ b/literature/no_superheroes.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ No superheroes!
 ###############
 
 :date: 2020-07-12T21:18:49
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`the thread on reddit`_”)
diff --git a/faith/note_on_luna.rst b/literature/note_on_luna.rst
index 55b6a7b..60e93fe 100644
--- a/faith/note_on_luna.rst
+++ b/literature/note_on_luna.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Note on Luna
 ############
 
 :date: 2020-04-07T09:39:17
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on `the thread`_ “Best Luna fics” by
diff --git a/faith/on_bashing.rst b/literature/on_bashing.rst
index 0b8599e..5059c65 100644
--- a/faith/on_bashing.rst
+++ b/literature/on_bashing.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ On bashing
 ##########
 
 :date: 2020-04-24
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 
diff --git a/faith/on_harriet_potter.rst b/literature/on_harriet_potter.rst
index 2bc4e73..e6b36da 100644
--- a/faith/on_harriet_potter.rst
+++ b/literature/on_harriet_potter.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ On Harriet Potter
 
 :date: 2018-06-13T22:49:55
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 While looking for some nice fanfiction story I randomly hit on 
 the story with the enticing title
diff --git a/faith/on_technology_horcrux.rst b/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst
index 5dbe589..ee5c71c 100644
--- a/faith/on_technology_horcrux.rst
+++ b/literature/on_technology_horcrux.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ On Technology of Horcrux creation
 #################################
 
 :date: 2022-01-09T08:50:43
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on “`Diary Horcrux Murder`_” by berkeleyjake)
diff --git a/faith/on_vampires.rst b/literature/on_vampires.rst
index f9ce773..f210306 100644
--- a/faith/on_vampires.rst
+++ b/literature/on_vampires.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ On Vampires
 ###########
 
 :date: 2021-01-24T14:26:36
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comment_ regarding vampires on AO3)
diff --git a/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst b/literature/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
index ace0f2e..a4a89b0 100644
--- a/faith/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
+++ b/literature/one-more-anti-harmony.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ One More Anti-Harmony
 #####################
 
 :date: 2020-08-06T20:02:58
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on the thread “`why does almost everyone hate the
diff --git a/faith/percy-changes-history.rst b/literature/percy-changes-history.rst
index 7ab01fe..5a272c0 100644
--- a/faith/percy-changes-history.rst
+++ b/literature/percy-changes-history.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Percy Weasley Changes the History
 
 :date: 2021-04-11T22:03:11
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 One of those “For Want of a Nail” type of stories. Tiny change
diff --git a/faith/post-war.rst b/literature/post-war.rst
index e64b41a..5aafdab 100644
--- a/faith/post-war.rst
+++ b/literature/post-war.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Smashing of Death Eaters?
 #########################
 
 :date: 2019-04-21T20:19:39
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment, justice
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, justice
 
 (my comments on “`Canon and the Moral Dimensions of Killing in 
 War`_” thread on reddit)
diff --git a/faith/post-witchhunt-faith.rst b/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst
index 774b801..816dfb4 100644
--- a/faith/post-witchhunt-faith.rst
+++ b/literature/post-witchhunt-faith.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ On Faith after Witch-hunts
 ##########################
 
 :date: 2021-01-11T14:59:47
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, HPreligion
 
 (my comments on “`Doesn't it make sense for wizards to be
diff --git a/faith/preaching_the_message.rst b/literature/preaching_the_message.rst
index b292c25..0cd12bf 100644
--- a/faith/preaching_the_message.rst
+++ b/literature/preaching_the_message.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ How not to use your character as a mouthpiece
 #############################################
 
 :date: 2021-02-11T09:27:17
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my contribution on the thread “`Using your character as a mouth
diff --git a/faith/problem-of-mary-sue.rst b/literature/problem-of-mary-sue.rst
index 81ac77b..21e0f33 100644
--- a/faith/problem-of-mary-sue.rst
+++ b/literature/problem-of-mary-sue.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ The problem of Mary Sue
 
 :date: 2019-04-23T10:11:41
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 
 Problem of all those stories “what if …” (Harry had a sister, 
diff --git a/faith/problem-of-wands.rst b/literature/problem-of-wands.rst
index dd1d8e7..9c34509 100644
--- a/faith/problem-of-wands.rst
+++ b/literature/problem-of-wands.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The Problem of Peter Pevensie and The Problem of Wands
 ######################################################
 
 :date: 2019-10-17T19:00:08
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comment on the discussion under “`Summer Vacation`_” by 
diff --git a/faith/religionless-hp.rst b/literature/religionless-hp.rst
index 2194503..3bb295e 100644
--- a/faith/religionless-hp.rst
+++ b/literature/religionless-hp.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Religionless universe of Harry Potter
 #####################################
 
 :date: 2019-03-30T20:33:21
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit, HPreligion
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit, HPreligion, zettelkasten
 
 (my comments on the thread “`Probably gonna catch some hate for 
 this. Religion and Mythology and its place in fiction.`_” on 
diff --git a/faith/review-of-aftershocks.rst b/literature/review-of-aftershocks.rst
index e27215b..80538f8 100644
--- a/faith/review-of-aftershocks.rst
+++ b/literature/review-of-aftershocks.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Review of Aftershocks
 #####################
 
 :date: 2017-06-15T17:22:53
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, blogComment, HarryPotter
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, blogComment, harryPotter
 
 Some thoughts on the fan fiction Aftershocks_.
 
diff --git a/literature/satanic_inversion.rst b/literature/satanic_inversion.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1163ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/literature/satanic_inversion.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,262 @@
+Satanic Inversion
+#################
+
+:date: 2019-05-07T00:05:21
+:status: draft
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(my comments on “Fate_” by TheTrueSpartan)
+
+.. _Fate:
+    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13170637
+
+.. FIXME Very much draft, just stored comments from FF.net.
+
+A response to your review at https://www.fanfiction.net/r/13170637/
+
+Hello mcepl,
+
+What can I do, when your Ron is just such a j*** I cannot stand
+him any more?
+
+I think that’s a fair opinion to have, Ron is not a perfect
+person. And he can be a j***, that’s how I’ve written him.
+I don’t like perfect characters, and I don’t want Ron being
+perfect because that’s just not who he is. But if you want to
+specify what you don’t like about him, I’d be happy to discuss
+this further. And having another character be your favorite in
+this story is 100% fine. I always planned this story to be like
+that, with a wide range of characters with varying personalities
+and traits.
+
+Best Regards,
+TheTrueSpartan
+
+I think my true problem is that this feels very much like one of
+those characters who behave like idiots (here keeping too many
+secrets) to save author’s plot (famous example from JKR’s books
+are chapters 17 and 18 in PoA, where for never explained reason
+Sirius and Remus talk only using pronouns just to keep the
+tension about the Scabbers’ identity, or Remus who after living
+for tens of years as a werewolf suddenly forgets it is a full
+moon night). Yes, I know he is just thirteen, but he is not
+traumatised like Harry so he should be able to share secret with
+somebody (Daphne?). "I just know a bit about future (after all
+Divination is not unknown trait in the magical world), and it
+freaks me out. Could you help me?" And so what? No, he has to
+keep it all down just to keep your plot going on.
+
+----
+
+Hello mcepl,
+
+* Yes, I know he is just thirteen, but he is not traumatised like
+  Harry so he should be able to share secret with somebody
+  (Daphne?)
+
+Not traumatized like Harry? Ron is far more traumatized in this 
+story, especially with some of the things that the Entity has 
+done to him. And it has done those things to keep Ron from 
+changing certain things that need to happen, which It will 
+actually explain a little later. Ron’s entire body is covered 
+with scars, his body was shattered and he went through the pain 
+of it, he suffers from a very real condition that can potentially 
+kill you at a young age, his injury gave him actual brain damage,
+he has Voldemort’s soul shard in him, the soul shard also affects
+him like it affected Harry later on when he was stressed, and he
+has seen his loved ones die right in front of him. Not as a baby
+like Harry did, but as a fully aware person who can understand
+death. Sure, it’s only been in visions. But those visions are an
+oncoming reality to Ron. Also, Ron’s possessed little sister beat
+him senseless and then petrified him.
+
+    "I just know a bit about future (after all Divination is not 
+    unknown trait in the magical world), and it freaks me out. 
+    Could you help me?" And so what? No, he has to keep it all 
+    down just to keep your plot going on.
+
+Okay, he tells Daphne that he knows a bit about the future. And
+then she’ll start asking questions, because that’s who she is.
+She won’t just stop because Ron makes up a lie like Divination,
+because Divination magic, although well known, is considered
+eye-roll material even in the wizarding world. McGonagall herself
+makes fun of it in front of Harry. Even Dumbledore only made
+Divination a class because he wanted to protect the woman who
+made the Prophecy about the Dark Lord’s defeat.
+
+Not to mention that Ron understands that once he divulges this
+secret, it’s no longer his to keep. Strategically speaking, that
+is not a wise move. Even Dumbledore kept everything a secret,
+including Snape’s position and the Horcruxes. If the wrong person
+knew, then it would all be undone. And in the wizarding world,
+there are plenty of people who can enter your mind and steal your
+secrets. And unlike Ron, his potential allies don’t share the
+Entity’s protection. Also, Ron doesn’t really know much about the
+war. He has no idea when it starts, or how the Dark Lord will
+return. He has no idea who is on whose side. He doesn’t even know
+how powerful the Dark Lord really is. What Ron does know is that
+the people who need to be prepared, already know about the Dark
+Lord still being alive. Telling Daphne doesn’t make sense to Ron,
+who is a person that is obsessed with having the upper hand and
+being prepared. Telling people around him, despite them being his
+friends, puts Ron’s own plans in danger. He likes Daphne, but not
+so much that he’ll risk Fred’s life with her.
+
+Let me know your thought,
+TheTrueSpartan
+May 5Not traumatized like Harry?
+
+Sorry, I didn’t mean physically traumatized (with all those
+Veelas, or the Philosopher’s Stone experience, and everything),
+but specifically in this case Harry’s obsessive tendency to keep
+secrets and never to rely on adults was being explained by his
+traumatic experience with Dursleys, who taught him well never to
+rely on adults. Ron never had it that bad. His childhood was not
+idyllic (and kudos for that), but it was never that bad and
+besides he lived with his siblings, who (to some degree, some of
+them) were helping and living together with him. Just the common
+sense would call him to go and talk with Dumbledore as he
+repeatedly asked him to come.
+
+Not to mention that Ron understands that once he divulges this
+secret, it’s no longer his to keep.
+
+Yes, that’s called sharing with friends. By having Ron this much
+control freak, you are making him exactly into the disgusting
+jerk I started this thread with.
+
+Even Dumbledore kept everything a secret, including Snape’s
+position and the Horcruxes.
+
+And how well it worked for him? Isn’t the whole point of all
+bashing!Dumbledore stories (and even I don’t agree with bashing
+anybody, they have their point in his criticism) how crazy was
+Dumbledore for keeping everything within and not sharing with
+anybody?
+
+----
+
+Hello mcepl,
+
+    Yes, that’s called sharing with friends. By having Ron this 
+    much control freak, you are making him exactly into the 
+    disgusting j*** I started this thread with.
+
+I do understand how you would feel that way, because that is
+a character flaw of Ron’s. He’s a control freak, and Pomfrey’s
+sessions with him will reveal that. Ron, due to seeing his
+brother’s death, has an obsession with his family. That obsession
+has spread towards his friends too, and with his victories so
+far, he has the idea that he knows best. When I planned Ron’s
+character, I always knew that he couldn’t be a person that
+everyone liked. He couldn’t be a Mary Sue, or Gary Stue in this
+case. That’s why I’ve spent so long on character development for
+each character that wasn’t featured prominently in the books.
+There are a few fans that don’t like Ron, but there are also many
+fans that love him. (In this story, that is.) Ron however,
+despite his flaws, is not a bad person. He lies, and he keeps
+secrets, but he does that because he believes that he’s doing the
+right thing. He also believes that the Entity will kill him if he
+tells anyone, which is a great motivation for lying. And despite
+all of his courage, he isn’t brave enough to test that just yet.
+He’s thirteen, and he lives under the constant threat of death.
+But if you dislike his character, or if he invokes any emotion in
+you, then I’ve written him well. Ron isn’t beyond making
+mistakes, because the Canon!Ron wasn’t above making mistakes.
+I hope there are other characters in my fic that you do like.
+Just because Ron is the MC doesn’t mean that everyone should like
+him, that’d be boring.
+
+    And how well it worked for him? Isn’t the whole point of all 
+    bashing!Dumbledore stories (and even I don’t agree with 
+    bashing anybody, they have their point in his criticism) how 
+    crazy was Dumbledore for keeping everything within and not 
+    sharing with anybody?
+
+Dumbledore himself believed that he shouldn’t be trusted with
+power, and for good reason. His past showed that he was the type
+of person who made great errors in judgement, and despite his own
+admittance of that, people like Harry blindly followed him
+anyway. Dumbledore’s plan had so many flaws, and it all worked
+out because of luck essentially. People like Snape were the real
+reason behind Harry’s success, but even Snape did what he did
+because Dumbledore instructed him. Snape joined for Lily, but he
+stayed because Dumbledore was the only real player against
+Voldemort. The real reason those bashing!Dumbledore fics exist is
+because the people who wrote them disliked Dumbledore (which they
+have a right to do). But no one can deny that without
+Dumbledore’s plans, Harry wouldn’t have succeeded. Plus, he
+couldn’t tell Harry everything considering that whenever Harry
+threw a tantrum, he let Voldemort look into his mind. That was
+why he ignored Harry in fifth year. Harry was a spy without even
+knowing it, so how could Dumbledore trust him fully?
+
+Let me know your thoughts, TheTrueSpartan
+
+----
+
+I think there is a difference between non-Mary Sue and making him
+such, that I have been mostly skipping his POV parts recently,
+but I don’t think you can do much about it, after writing so much
+in one style. 22h agoThank you for provoking me to think more
+thoroughly why I dislike this story so much. Not because it is
+poorly written, I’ve read probably hundred of poorly written
+stories and I’ve learned just to stop reading them. Your story is
+not poorly written, it is very well written. What bothers me
+really is the content, what you write about, not how. There is
+that theory of spiritual and moral development human development
+of every person by a psychotherapist M. Scott Peck (the book was
+called "The Road Less Traveled"), where he explains (more or
+less, it is more complicated) that everybody goes in his youth
+through different stages of the morality. The stage which in my
+opinion represents roughly 80+% of all fanfiction stories is The
+Third Stage which generally represents teenage years, the college
+years. People in this stage naturally oppose everything they’ve
+learned and they tend to align themselves with what’s called
+moral inversion. They try to look at the alternative world
+what-if everything good is actually wrong and vice versa. So, the
+most trustworthy friendly and positive is deemed as the most evil
+(thus bashing of Dumbledore, Weasleys, Ron & Hermione spying on
+Harry for money, Ginny dousing Harry with love potion, etc.) and
+vice versa, whatever is evil is considered good (Snape is good,
+Malfoys are misunderstood, and even Voldemort/Lord Gaunt could be
+suddenly somehow positive).
+
+Obviously you don’t go to all these most stereotypical nonsense,
+you are too good writer on that. However, there is a lot of
+inversion going on here as well. Obviously, the most warm stable
+(some called him a closeted Hufflepuff) a bit lazy person, who
+can operate only as a part of a team and whose mouth runs a way
+too fast, is suddenly extremely driven, cold, manipulative
+Slytherin, who overslythers all his classmates who tries to
+befriend him, and who intentionally keeps himself distant from
+everybody. Cold and hateful Weasleys (on some levels),
+manipulative and distant Dumbledore, etc.
+
+The point which is probably the most important and painful to me
+is the inversion of the free will. One of the most important
+message of whole Harry Potter universe is that our choices are
+the most important of all and that we are free to choose (which
+is obviously very important in the moral theory). Your story
+slowly but surely seems to be turning towards the exact opposite:
+Ron is completely manipulated and controlled by that evil Entity,
+and his choices actually don’t matter that much. That’s probably
+the most evil part of the story so far.
+
+And it is possible, that your inversion inverts to something
+positive in the end, but then I have to say you could really use
+some editing and cut on your material, because we are now
+(counted by the number of chapters) somewhere towards the end of
+the Prisoner of Azkaban, and that’s just bloody too long for the
+exposition.
+
+If you see a lot of what I am talking about, find on YouTube
+series of clips "Barbara Hall on Joan of Arcadia" (yes, I was
+a big fan of that TV show, it is probably completely obsolete for
+most people now, it shows my age).
+
+As they say, if you don’t like it then just unsubscribe from the
+story, which is what I just did.
+
+Best of luck!
diff --git a/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst
index 15b4cdc..a4f2c42 100644
--- a/faith/singularoddities-review-escape.rst
+++ b/literature/singularoddities-review-escape.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Review of “Escape” and “Mr and Mrs Percy Weasley”
 #################################################
 
 :date: 2017-12-14
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (Update later: this review was written in December 2017, when
 the latter story was somewhere around chapter 24; it would be
diff --git a/faith/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst b/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst
index 881f851..2f055cd 100644
--- a/faith/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst
+++ b/literature/soul-bonds-arranged-marriage.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Soul bonds and arranged marriages
 #################################
  
 :date: 2022-06-16
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
  
 Comment on the Reddit thread “`Soul bonding fics with depth?`_”
diff --git a/faith/strong_blood_review.rst b/literature/strong_blood_review.rst
index 55a828c..0a4601d 100644
--- a/faith/strong_blood_review.rst
+++ b/literature/strong_blood_review.rst
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ On Strong Blood
 
 :date: 2019-01-15T12:00:56
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my comments on “`Strong Blood`_” by CooLibrarian)
 
diff --git a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst b/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst
index 80ace86..8db8577 100644
--- a/faith/terms_of_matrimony.rst
+++ b/literature/terms_of_matrimony.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Terms of Matrimony
 ##################
 
 :date: 2019-02-07T23:48:04
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, HarryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (my comments on “`Terms of Matrimony`_” by Galad Estel)
 
diff --git a/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst b/literature/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst
index 147f66f..5f0f533 100644
--- a/faith/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst
+++ b/literature/the_problem_of_gaiman.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The Problem of Neil Gaiman
 ##########################
 
 :date: 2017-03-13T17:33:58
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: blogComment, feminism, christianity
 
 So, it happened. I read “The problem of Susan” by Neil Gaiman and
diff --git a/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst b/literature/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst
index 1e52fcb..db313fa 100644
--- a/faith/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst
+++ b/literature/thou_shalt_not_suffer_witch_live.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
 
 :date: 2020-09-01T18:08:30
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: sermon, english, Bible
 
 There are some verses which are usually important for every
diff --git a/faith/too_long.rst b/literature/too_long.rst
index 9657228..e8b9e12 100644
--- a/faith/too_long.rst
+++ b/literature/too_long.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Drawn too long
 ##############
 
 :date: 2020-01-04T10:31:09
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter
 
 (Major spoilers follow, I am sorry, but I cannot explain my 
diff --git a/faith/trans.rst b/literature/trans.rst
index 4a19a57..7494e8e 100644
--- a/faith/trans.rst
+++ b/literature/trans.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Transgender, TWERF, and homophobia
 
 :date: 2020-06-12T00:21:29
 :status: draft
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit
 
 (response to the comment_ on the topic of femslash)
diff --git a/faith/unhappy_dark_lord.rst b/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst
index 6bc90fc..22cb3bb 100644
--- a/faith/unhappy_dark_lord.rst
+++ b/literature/unhappy_dark_lord.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Horcruxes and Unhappy Dark Lord
 ###############################
 
 :date: 2021-04-29T23:15:46
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment, plotBunny
 
 Originally published as “`Quest for Immortality by the Unhappy
diff --git a/faith/vita_brevis-again.rst b/literature/vita_brevis-again.rst
index 055c662..ec47e90 100644
--- a/faith/vita_brevis-again.rst
+++ b/literature/vita_brevis-again.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Vita Brevis and Augustine’s giving up wife for the sake of His Salvation
 ########################################################################
 
 :date: 2015-10-03T11:20:14
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: Augustine, philosophy, podcast, blogComment
 
 (I wanted to comment on “The History of Philosophy: without any
diff --git a/faith/werewolf-stories.rst b/literature/werewolf-stories.rst
index 1c6132d..d3fe872 100644
--- a/faith/werewolf-stories.rst
+++ b/literature/werewolf-stories.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Werewolf stories
 ################
 
 :date: 2021-01-08T00:31
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten, werewolf
 
 (my entry on “`What are you reading? Weekly Post for 2021-01-06`_”)
 
diff --git a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst b/literature/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst
index fbef753..d7de968 100644
--- a/faith/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst
+++ b/literature/what-wrong-with-Ginny.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ What’s wrong with Ginny?
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 :date: 2019-07-17T23:50:28
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten, plot, story
 
 (my comments on “`The Character Development of Ginny Weasley`_” 
diff --git a/faith/why_drop_story.rst b/literature/why_drop_story.rst
index ff072f8..f5d25b6 100644
--- a/faith/why_drop_story.rst
+++ b/literature/why_drop_story.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Why to drop fanfiction story immediately
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 :date: 2021-10-19T18:35:24
-:category: faith
-:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, zettelkasten, negative
 
 pink-pipes asked_ on Reddit
 
diff --git a/faith/working-class-snape.rst b/literature/working-class-snape.rst
index 6d97581..1684560 100644
--- a/faith/working-class-snape.rst
+++ b/literature/working-class-snape.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Working class Snape?
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 :date: 2021-02-28T19:16:02
-:category: faith
+:category: literature
 :tags: HPprompt, harryPotter, blogComment
 
 (my post “`All Our Kin: Snape and Evanses flight from the urban poverty of early 1980s`_”)