WOF 342: Breaking Through the Buffered Self
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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The Merely Subjectively Satisfying and the Objectively Valuable
In plato's telling, the emancipated prisoner who has left the cave and seen the world outside as well as the sun that's the ultimate provider of the light. This everybody is the religious person making his or her way through the secularized world to day - moving among buffered selves. So the challenge is finding our way out of the cave and encouraging other people to do so in the interest of breaking through the buffr itself and ultimately establishing a connection to god.
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