Second and more to your point in the show, it was not the tree of knowledge, per se, but the tree of the knowledge of *good and evil.* That is an important distinction because it’s the difference between interpreting that as God wanting to keep us ignorant or Him being anti-intellectual versus God wanting us to not sin.

Knowledge and “to know” in the Bible often means “to have intimate relations”, as in “Adam knew Eve and they had a son.” So what eating of the fruit of that tree did was to allow Adam and Eve to know, to become intimate not just with good, but also evil.

On point to your discussion, I can’t think of anywhere in Church teaching that we are told not to pursue knowledge of God or to plumb the depths of His mystery. In fact, we are encouraged to do so, as long as we keep in mind that we cannot truly know God, we can’t figure Him out, like a puzzle we solve. St. Thomas Aquinas spent a life time thinking about God and pursuing Truth, and while his may be the greatest intellect of all time, even he at the end of his life looked back on his great body of work and said, “It is all straw.”

There was no intellectual pride in him. He knew that even his great delving could not even scratch the surface of the Truth about God.

I look forward to more thought-provoking episodes of the Secrets of BSG.

1) Nice work with the website. It is getting better and better every single day! Awesome!

2) Digg.com. To be honest: it does not work for me. I do not like Digg personally, because there is much stuff on there, I am not interested in at all. It is useless to me. Most of the content is on a very low level. I did not find anything interesting there and the comments are very bad. But I understand that it is a very good way to get SQPN out there. And so I dugg both of the articles mentioned on the show and I commented on the first one. There is a problem, though. Some of us did comment at digg.com telling the Digg “community” that it has been done by Fr. Roderick’s request. Well, this will not work very well as you can see by the reactions to those comments. Digg it, if you like the article and please comment referring to the article’s topic, if you post a comment…

3) I do miss the Daily Breakfast with more topics than blogging and social networking. (I know, it will change… Sorry! :))

4) The Willits and Fr. Roderick have both this scheduled ending in place after 26/27 minutes. I love long shows. If you don’t, it is ok, but please do not end shows, because Castblaster is telling you to do so. Do it, when the right time has come and YOU want to end the show.

Keep up the great work! This comment is meant to encourage you, even if it does not contain only the “good stuff”. All of you: have a nice day or night - wherever you are!

I have just finished listening to your podcast for the first time. I heard, that Fr. Roderick is listening to it while having a run. On the beginning I thought, ok, it will be a nice talk about your life and what you did etc. But at the end, it became very interesting. Expecially the process when you changed your focus from emotions to truth.

My wife is lutheran and we have a lot of heavy discussions about the spirit etc. because she thinks more emotional and I think more rational. For example, she likes more the worship than the lutheran liturgy.

So, I am looking forward hearing more about your conversion or way back to catholics and more about the worshipping and what you think about this.

It was very nice and interessting listening to you.

cu

Andreas from Lübeck (DE)

At work, It is not appropriate to access the web for blog purposes, commenting, Twittering, etc. I listen on my iPod and then check out this web site at night. I need to take the time to do some iTunes rating for you all. I found that I spent way too much time on my computer when I was blogging away my evenings on the American Idol fan forum. I try to live a much more balanced existance now — take time for my Morning & Evening prayer.

I’ve thought about starting my own blog but have not really laid out any plans. I’ve written poetry and reflections most of my life and have thought about constructing something around that — I’ll be at the Catholic New Media Celebration.

Peace
Jan

I am hoping you will visit this site
and consider linking to these pages.

Let me know so I acknowledge this and link back if you wish.

Blessings on your venture

Anxiously awaiting the next installment.

“The Mount” as it is known is the second oldest seminary in the U.S. Emmitsburg was the home of Elizabeth Ann Seton. Her community was served by two famous priests from the Mount. The founder, Bishop John Dubois, who later became bishop of New York and Servant of God Simon Brute (pronounced Broo-tay) who later became bishop of Vincennes Indiana (now Indianapolis). Brute was Seton’s spiritual director.

There is a Lourdes Grotto at Mount St. Mary’s and their web site gives more of the history, not only of the grotto, but the area, the College and the Seminary.

http://www.msmary.edu/grotto/about/history.html