The West

Rod Dreher wrote a post this morning considering the difference between East and West, particularly in the West’s infatuation with deconstruction and manipulation, compared to the East’s respect for mysteries and hands-off approach to certain topics.

This topic is something that has been close to the forefront of my mind for the past year as I’ve been investigating Catholicism and Orthodoxy. I’d like to deal directly with the physical problems we face here in the West in context of Western theology and history, but I’m not quite sure how I’ll structure it yet.

I am a scientist, not a theologian, and I can’t say that I’ve given as much thought to this topic as some have. However, I do believe what I say very strongly, and I am willing to defend it insofar as I believe it is true. I haven’t seen anybody really approach the topic in a way that I can agree with, but I find it difficult to think that I am alone on this. My intent is to “ping” the world out there more than to prove anything to anybody.