Click to Subscribe
Sam Vs. The Council of Trent
Samuel Finlay & James Discuss Violent Spectacle
© 2019 James LaFond
APR/20/19
From Samuel Finlay
James,
I came across something recently that I've been chewing on, and since you've read and written extensively on fighting it seemed like a good idea to seek your input. I realize this touches upon religion, and I would say at the beginning I mean no offense (the crack about Trent in the subject line notwithstanding); I'm trying to wrap my mind around something, and I'm sure y'all know a lot of things on this subject that I don't.
Over the past year or so, something has been changing in me for the better, and in trying to be as faithful to that as I can, I've found myself revisiting the older forms of the Church. A few months back, I came across a Catholic named Matt Fradd who's such a fan of St. Thomas Aquinas he has his own podcast he dubbed Pints with Aquinas, idea being every episode is kind of imagining of you at the bar having a beer with St. Thomas and asking him a question. Fradd and a guest then discuss what Aquinas might have said based on his writings. I'm not a Thomist, but it's interesting. On top of that, he's devoted a lot of work to trying to help address the toll that pornography can take on people, and encouraging them in cutting it out of their lives. Point being, he seems like a genuinely good dude whose heart is in the right place and is trying to get at the truth and help people.
On his Patreon feed he posted a video of himself and some friends discussing The Morality of UFC Something about that discussion troubled me. I'm not much of a devotee of sports in general, and I don't cotton the commercialization of violence (pro-wresting excluded; Stone Cold Steve Austin is a global icon and a national treasure and we must never forget what he did for us), particularly as the industry tries to get women to participate. This is to say nothing of that thing that happens to people; that look on someone's face when they delight in seeing gratuitous cruelty and humiliation visited upon someone. You can see it take hold of them and know you're looking at the stirrings of a monster ancient and primeval beyond understanding. I remember being on both sides of that as a kid and feeling disgusted afterward, so I think I grasp the reservations...
Finish reading over at the BlogSpot:
Two Qualities That Fighters Admire
modern combat
Name Two Deficiencies in a Fighter
eBook
honor among men
eBook
logic of force
eBook
wife—
eBook
triumph
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
when you're food
eBook
predation
eBook
into leviathan’s maw
eBook
the lesser angels of our nature
eBook
menthol rampage
eBook
masculine axis
eBook
orphan nation
eBook
barbarism versus civilization
eBook
within leviathan’s craw
eBook
all-power-fighting
eBook
fiction anthology one
eBook
the fighting edge
eBook
son of a lesser god
eBook
winter of a fighting life
eBook
blue eyed daughter of zeus
eBook
the combat space
eBook
america the brutal
eBook
on combat
eBook
hate
eBook
thriving in bad places
eBook
taboo you
eBook
under the god of things
eBook
z-pill forever
eBook
ranger?
eBook
uncle satan
eBook
beasts of aryas
eBook
the year the world took the z-pill
eBook
fate
eBook
song of the secret gardener
eBook
advent america
eBook
sons of aryas
eBook
by the wine dark sea
eBook
songs of aryas
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
book of nightmares
eBook
the gods of boxing
eBook
logic of steel
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
the first boxers
eBook
cracker-boy
eBook
sorcerer!
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
on the overton railroad
eBook
night city
eBook
broken dance
eBook
the greatest boxer
eBook
fanatic
eBook
let the world fend for itself
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message