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Winkology, and let's ask Biden about how he feels about a woman's right to choose.
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Joe Biden is caught in a dilemma. Morality is involved with your personal relationship with God. While ethics is concerned with your personal relationship with the world. He has chosen a narrow path. While he personally accepts the teaching of the RCC on abortion, he realizes that as a politician elected by the people at large he cannot inflict his personal religious convictions on them. It is a very difficult and very courageous stance. I applaud him for it.
Joe Biden is caught in a dilemma. Morality is involved with your personal relationship with God. While ethics is concerned with your personal relationship with the world. He has chosen a narrow path. While he personally accepts the teaching of the RCC on abortion, he realizes that as a politician elected by the people at large he cannot inflict his personal religious convictions on them. It is a very difficult and very courageous stance. I applaud him for it.
It's a moral hole you can't climb out of. Biden not only supports abortion but he wants tax payers to fund it. But he totally has a Catholic opposition to it. Trust us, even though he's doing everything he can to further the pro abortion lobby.His position has been fairly consistent. He accepts the Catholic position on abortion, but does not support legislating it. His previous support of the Hyde amendment was actually inconsistent with what he's always said his position is.
Of course, Trump snuggles up to godless dictators. North Korea is the single most persecuted, most difficult nation in the world to be Christian in. Otto Warmbier, an American citizen, gets killed there. No issue. But of course anyone who votes for a guy who snuggles up to Kim Jong Un like that can have communion every day of the week.
I'm not confused on anything. It is pretty clear exactly what it is: hypocrisy.
The relevant canon is 915, which canon lawyer Ed Peters elucidates here.
Canon lawyers Ed Peters and Jay Newman concluded that this was the right move by the priest. Even left-leaning America Magazine found no reason to dissent.
To receive the Eucharist is to affirm that one is in union with the Church, and to do that while at the same time rejecting the definitive teachings of the Church is to lie in the commission of a sacred act, thus receiving unworthily. The Bible certainly says that to do so is to bring judgement upon oneself, which is why the Church has such rules: it's for the protection of the those who would harm themselves by receiving.The Bible does not say supporting abortion makes anyone ineligible for communion, which is the topic.
Communion is only about one thing: memorializing the death of Jesus Christ for our sins.
Communion is only about one thing: memorializing the death of Jesus Christ for our sins.
Joe Biden's opinions about abortion are just that: opinions. He is not an abortion doctor.
What is the problem here?
You can receive Communion if you are a Christian. Biblically, nothing else matters. The RCC is against the Lord by refusing to let people do what Jesus commanded them to do. At no time did Jesus ever tell any of his disciples Communion is limited to people who strongly oppose murdering babies.
Jesus knows everyone is still a sinner after conversion to Christianity. He did not say if you support sin, it disqualifies you from taking Communion, for obvious reasons. This should be easy to understand.