Musings on conversions with Marxists....

I must say that studying Gramsci and other Marxists, especially of the European variety, that their writings are so boring. Materialism, the view of life which excludes the supernatural, is simply boring.  However, I must enter the fray for the sake of Western Civilization and the New Evangelization and do my little bit. Reasonable arguments need a common basis, or at least, an opening to the understanding of language, or the vocabulary of each group's beliefs. We are all part of the same world, and how we look at life depends on our philosophical basis, on the Truth.

If we can convince someone that there is a soul, eternal life, the Resurrection evangelium, we must use Reason which reaches out to the imagination of those with whom, I hope, we are in conversation.

This takes training, intellectual training. Perhaps one teacher, one professor in a seminary will inspire his students to begin to think that it is important to be able to enter the conversation, with the goal of conversion.

"What is Truth?" said Pilate. Apparently, he stayed in darkness. If we can move people to begin, just begin to believe in Christ, materialism melts away into an acceptance of the spiritual.

As a poet, I understand that the spiritual world enters into the material world even for pagans, who do not realize how, in what manner, their art reflects the presence of the soul and not merely a secular humanism.

The problem today is the same as the problem in ancient times-the event of the Resurrection and the fact of the empty tomb.