Tuesday, January 22, 2013

On Gay "Marriage" and Other Disorders

A bit of perennial wisdom.  So happens that it directly contradicts Obozo's attempted re-construction of human nature expressed yesterday in his bloviating 'address.'

Benedict XVI says the Christian vision of man is a great "yes" to his or her dignity and social nature, and in this context, the Church stresses a great "yes" to the dignity and beauty of marriage.

In the same vein, the Pope said on Saturday, the Church voices a "no" to such philosophies as the philosophy of gender.

... "The Christian vision of man is, in fact, a great 'yes' to the dignity of the person called to intimate communion with God, a filial communion, humble and confident," he added. "The human being is neither an individual subsisting in himself nor an anonymous element of the collective. He is rather a singular and unrepeatable person intrinsically ordered to relationship and sociality. 

"For this reason the Church stresses her great 'yes' to the dignity and beauty of marriage as an expression of a faithful and fecund alliance between man and woman, and says 'no' to such philosophies as the philosophy of gender. The Church is guided by the fact that the reciprocity between man and woman is the expression of the beauty of the nature willed by the Creator."

... the Holy Father pointed to ideologies of recent centuries that praised the "cult of the nation, the race, of the social class," as well as "unbridled capitalism with its cult of profit, which has led to crisis, inequality and misery."
He spoke of the "shadows in our time," referring "above all to a tragic anthropological reduction that re-proposes ancient material hedonism, to which is added a 'technological prometheism.'"

... "From the marriage of a materialistic vision of man and great technological development there emerges an anthropology that is at bottom atheistic," the Holy Father explained. 

...In such a perspective, the Pontiff warned, anything that is technologically possible becomes morally legitimate, "every experiment is thus acceptable, every political demographic acceptable, every form of manipulation justified."

"Man wants to be 'ab-solutus,' absolved of every bond and of every natural constitution," the Pope continued. "He pretends to be independent and thinks that his happiness lies solely in the affirmation of self. [...] This is a radical negation of man's creatureliness and filial condition, which leads to a tragic solitude."

(We're not holding our breath awaiting the Left-o-"Catholic" affirmation of the Pope's remarks.)

Doesn't take a lot of smarts to figure out that the Pope will not be on the invite-list to the White House any time in the next 4 years, does it?  

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

But then again, no one should care what this fossil has to say about anything. He's just a guy in a funny hat, playing pretend.

Anonymous said...

Did the pope approve the hush money to abuse victims in the LA Diocese?

What did the pope know, and when did he know it? Can the pope be impeached?

Anonymous said...

"In the same vein, the Pope said on Saturday, the Church voices a "no" to such philosophies as the philosophy of gender."

Absolutely, according to the worldview held by the RCC, God sees men and women as his creation, as one with Him.

But the last time I checked, our federal government is secular in nature and therefore free from the opinion of the RCC in this matter. More importantly, the "philosophy of gender" is a well-established anthropological fact.

You see, anthropology, by itself, does NOT cause people to be atheists, nor is the study of anthropology anti-religious. To be an anthropologist, one works toward being highly educated scientist. The individuals in this field focus on questioning or thinking about matters that may be religious in nature, and their findings may be devoid of any religious meaning. Fundamentalist Christians, of course, do not subscribe to the concepts found in anthropology, so naturally there will be arguments derived from the Bible to counter scientific findings regarding "how human nature is constructed".

There is no contradiction, just argumentation.

Anonymous said...

Good. I have been having a homosexual relationship with Jim Spice and wish to have it formalized.

Dad29 said...

To be an anthropologist, one works toward being highly educated scientist.

Oooooooh!!

Then they can answer the question "what is the 'mind'", right?

And they could even answer the question "How did a 'philosophy' become a 'fact'"?

Dad29 said...

according to the worldview held by the RCC, God sees men and women as his creation, as one with Him.

Sophisticated and highly-credentialed anthropologists do not make that assertion because it is wrong.

Anonymous said...

Please clarify your 7:56 a.m. and 9:35 a.m. posts, they lack any semblance of context or logic.