Kant we stop this?

Immanuel Kant

So the Voris-Shea-half of the Catholic Blogosphere-Earth Day dust up is still going on. Shea today posted a link by Fisheaters showing how one can mention Earth Day and Easter and still be within the realms of Orthodoxy. REALLY? I almost want to give all these bloggers a time out and take away their blogging privileges for the day, because they are acting like children... seriously.

Since when did we decide bloggers must be held to the exact wording of their arguments, as if we were all subscribing to some Kantian philosophy of imperatives? I haven't seen such childish and convoluted thinking since my philosophy classes in undergrad. Seriously, Shea-Anchoress-et al... don't really believe that Voris stated his proposition with a strict and literal intention. They don't believe this because it would be silly... and their examples prove it. Ugh... I am not even going to waste my time drawing out this analysis.

What frustrates me is that a lot of folks in the Voris camp aren't thinking to highly of the other side in this right now and in reality, everyone is pretty much on the same side of things in the larger battle for Catholic orthodoxy. I think a lot of the Voris-camp could learn a lot from Shea and the like, but this dust-up is hurting those chances.

If you have no idea what I am talking about... lucky you. If you think I am incoherent and babbling, you are probably right. I'll stop now.

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