Author Topic: Who are our neighbors? (Read 3290 times)

Disputaciones · « **Reply #30 on:** September 08, 2015, 09:04:01 PM »

In fact, this is something every single Catholic within the age of reason is EXPECTED to know, and it's probably sinful not knowing it since it affects your every day life. It's right out of the Catechism.

OHCA · « **Reply #31 on:** September 08, 2015, 10:38:17 PM »

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This thread just makes me want to marry an Asian woman that much more.

Why do you say that?

It was sarcasm. I was thinking about how people are always trying to make me look stupid but in reality they are just making themselves look stupid and me mad. It also makes me realize that if I am to ever marry that perhaps I should marry someone with an above average intelligence.

So nothing less than a highly intelligent "10" is suitable for IF, huh... :roll-laugh1:

poche · « **Reply #32 on:** September 08, 2015, 10:39:32 PM »

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I never once disputed making acts of charity towards all people. I was questioning whether or not our love for others should be the same for all people or different depending on who the person is. Obviously we must love the Lord above ourselves and our neighbors. That being one example of there being an order of how we should love. Someone posted a link to Bishop Williamson's opinion on there being an order to charity earlier in this thread. This was the answer to my question. It's not a stupid question as some are indicating. Thomas Aquinas himself addressed this sort of question.

If that's what you wanted to know, then why isn't that the question you asked in the OP? You asked "who is our neighbor?" And that is the answer you got. :confused1:

I wanted to know who our neighbors are so that I would know whether or not I should love all people equally or differently. Knowing who our neighbors are is sufficient enough to determine the rest. If everyone is our neighbor then we must love everyone equally. If only some people are our neighbor then charity should be practiced discriminately. It appears that some people in this thread thought that everyone is our neighbor. While Bishop Williamson's letter expresses the contrary.

You should love everyone. Love of neighbor covers a multitude of sins.

Briget · « **Reply #33 on:** September 08, 2015, 10:56:05 PM »

You know, reading the replies makes me want to vomit some of you out of these message boards. The irony here is amazing. Someone asking about charity and you call them names. You should be ashamed of yourselves. And don't think its just those on this thread. Ive seen it time and again. Do you dare mask it as "charity" to stomp on your brothers and sisters in Christ?

What.are.you.thinking.

InfiniteFaith · « **Reply #34 on:** September 09, 2015, 02:30:25 AM »

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You know, reading the replies makes me want to vomit some of you out of these message boards. The irony here is amazing. Someone asking about charity and you call them names. You should be ashamed of yourselves. And don't think its just those on this thread. Ive seen it time and again. Do you dare mask it as "charity" to stomp on your brothers and sisters in Christ?

What.are.you.thinking.

I personally think that those are the unbelievers/wicked.