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The Dignity of Man
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2010, 12:48:12 PM »
RC, that's true.  I've never seen more injustice in this country and the world.  The more you hear something being talked about usually is an indication of its' absence.  At least that's what Romano Amerio said in his book, and I have found it to be so.

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« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2010, 12:49:23 PM »
I know and it's gotten much years in the years since I left academia.  Judges, in their great pride, want to make law, and so with the self appointed elite, who absolutely know what is best for everyone.  All the subjective truth in the driver's seat is totally poisonous.  Saw one family in court being thrown out of their house in the winter because they couldn't afford electricity.  Hey, there you have both justice and common sense a la mode.


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« Reply #27 on: May 31, 2010, 02:49:36 PM »
Quote from: Trinity
O, Spouse of Jesus, please write those pages.  Especially with your enthusiasm, it would be a blessing for all of us.  And RomanCatholic, I think you could expound even more on how to deal with our dignity.



  Ok. It is what I see:
Man is not a tool: He is not a means. So, working, studying and even procreating though sometimes obligatory and always salutary are means God gave us not ends in themselves. It is true that our life depends on many things, but those things are means.(Like oxygen and water that are made to save humans not to rule over them). It is why the church can canonize those who couldn't or didn't work, study procreate etc. If it was not the case, a child could never be canonized.
  Opening the both options of celibacy and marriage means that women are not just machines that make babies, nor are they *** toys. And that marriage instead of being what the nature imposes on unwilling shoulders, is now a choice made by those who could freely do otherwise without losing anything.

  All things are clean: So you can't reject anyone as unclean simply because they have a disease (in judaism) or are women in their 'wrong time' (in islam)or because of their jobs (like in zorosteranism). All such people can go to the church and pray.

  Males are not beasts: Unlike what some false religions say, males are not brute savages deprived of emotions and self-control.
The instituation of monogamy and condeming impurity in men shows very well that they can and must be pure.
  (In my ex-faith, the whole obligations that spouses have toward one another is that the woman gives the marriage debt and the man his money (called Nafaqueh). As you see, it looks more like a legalized form of prostituation. Compare it with the Sacrament of matrimony.)
  Children are actual not potential humans. So, even a human emboroyo fully possesses this dignity.

The Dignity of Man
« Reply #28 on: May 31, 2010, 03:20:15 PM »
Dulcamara can you explain your avatar?

The Dignity of Man
« Reply #29 on: May 31, 2010, 04:46:27 PM »
Let me paraphrase that, Spouse of Jesus.  Though we carry out the tasks of life, they do not give us worth, nor take away from our worth.  The tiniest embryo has the same worth as the greatest man, because our worth does not come from what we have or what we do, but from God.  Am I getting it?