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There is an instructive story about an American hostage who asks his Iranian captors to listen to reason. They agree, but add, “Then we kill you.” Ideologues are not open to dialog.
The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), now everywhere in our society, is an ideology that repackages René Descartes’ dictum. “I think, therefore I am.” We are “ghosts in a machine.” Our thinking – actually fantasies – determine our reality. But this projection of delusions, disconnected from empirical reality, requires us to deny or distort human and historical experience.
Secularists occasionally ask, for example, “Where is transgenderism forbidden in the Bible?” An informed Catholic, eager to persuade an errant soul, might naively acknowledge that the Bible does not list transgenderism as a sin. But we understand the Bible in the historical context of Church teaching and Tradition.
So let’s stipulate that the moral legacy of Western Civilization identifies many sins and errors that the Bible never mentions:
Reckless driving.
Targeting civilians with nuclear bombs.
Driving on the wrong side of the road.
Beating your wife.
Not flossing your teeth.
Insider trading.
Blowing up a school lavatory toilet with a cherry bomb.
Overdosing on drugs.
Pedophilia.
Using prisoners of war for medical experimentation purposes.
Using aborted baby tissue for medical experimentation purposes.
Harvesting organs for profit from Chinese prisoners.
Broadly construing the end of Saint John’s Gospel (cf. Jn. 21:25), the whole world could not contain the books written on the principles of morality in a civilized world. Natural law – God’s law imprinted on every soul – gives us much to discuss as we wade into the hot-button issues of the day, such as abortion and LGBTQ quagmires.
Continued below.
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The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), now everywhere in our society, is an ideology that repackages René Descartes’ dictum. “I think, therefore I am.” We are “ghosts in a machine.” Our thinking – actually fantasies – determine our reality. But this projection of delusions, disconnected from empirical reality, requires us to deny or distort human and historical experience.
Secularists occasionally ask, for example, “Where is transgenderism forbidden in the Bible?” An informed Catholic, eager to persuade an errant soul, might naively acknowledge that the Bible does not list transgenderism as a sin. But we understand the Bible in the historical context of Church teaching and Tradition.
So let’s stipulate that the moral legacy of Western Civilization identifies many sins and errors that the Bible never mentions:
Reckless driving.
Targeting civilians with nuclear bombs.
Driving on the wrong side of the road.
Beating your wife.
Not flossing your teeth.
Insider trading.
Blowing up a school lavatory toilet with a cherry bomb.
Overdosing on drugs.
Pedophilia.
Using prisoners of war for medical experimentation purposes.
Using aborted baby tissue for medical experimentation purposes.
Harvesting organs for profit from Chinese prisoners.
Broadly construing the end of Saint John’s Gospel (cf. Jn. 21:25), the whole world could not contain the books written on the principles of morality in a civilized world. Natural law – God’s law imprinted on every soul – gives us much to discuss as we wade into the hot-button issues of the day, such as abortion and LGBTQ quagmires.
Continued below.
What the Imposing of Ideological Fantasies Reveals - The Catholic Thing
Father Jerry J. Pokorsky: Science is shows the handiwork of God. We must not object to science, but we must object to the abuse of science.
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