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I don't know if he's saying Vance did. Just that he thinks that is a trend. Renn writes about cultural trends and he thinks that the influence of culture from Protestant thinkers is pretty much over. The remaining conservative religious influence in his mind is from a Roman Catholic perspective. I like to read on "First Things" and "National Review" and from seeing who is writing what I think he has a point. I can't think of any conservative writers or commentators off hand who are Protestant and have any stature of note with the possible exception of Al Mohler. (Oh yeah, Carl Truman, also.)

 

I personally have a problem with Roman Catholicism’s hierarchical posturing and stance they take with controlling people but perhaps that’s just my experiences with them. Saint's Francis and Bonaventure, etc were not interested in a theocracy rather of contemplation and quite prayer… not domination. Hopefully Vance sees that and is being directed there vs the power freaks. If he gets in that head game then I’d feel sorry for him. To understand ‘Roman’ Catholicism you need to be born and raised in it, you need to feel the grit of it, the agony and the ecstasy of it… blah blah blah. It’s very heady.

 

Correct me if I am wrong, I’m assuming that you do not have the ancient blood lines of the Romans… rather you are of some German and/or Celtic ancestry, otherwise why would you be where you are now? Rather than peaking into Jewish histrionics, I suggest you take a hard look first at your ancestors and their religious journey then look at the Romans and their long history of conquest (of both Christian their own kind) & then the world at large. It’s fascinating! Note, a good read into early Romans would be ‘Coriolanus’ a play from Shakespeare for insight. There is interplay between the Patrician class and the plebeian’s, constant wars, and assassinations… that’s your Roman worldview, which leads to the Roman Catholic Church operation. Also note that the RCC has little or nothing to do with Celtic forms of Christianity, Slavic, German …. Only Roman domination which is always absolute.

 

I'm on Renn's e-mail list and I noticed he has more on Protestant conversion to RC and more on Vance's story too. I think you might find it interesting. There is also a video which I have not watched yet.

 

Since I’m a convert to The Primitive Baptist movement I am more than interested in his thinking process… so yes I would be interested in his logic

 

More importantly, how exactly does an unbeliever come to have faith.

If you can answer this, you can answer the question, "What must I do to be saved?"


God bless.