Posted on 03/12/2014 9:51:39 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Suppose the question had been put to Dolan like this:
“Jo Schmo, from your home state, the football player, revealed that he was a thief and a murderer, first in the NFL. How did you view it?” To be intellectually (and thus theologically) consistent Dolan would have to answer reporter like so: “Good for him. I would have no sense of judgment on him. God bless ya. I don’t think, look, the same Bible that tells us, that teaches us, well about the virtue of generosity and the virtue of kindness and charity also tells us not to judge people. So I would say, ‘Bravo.’"
Folks, does this help you see the fallacy in his position?
I am so disgusted at Cardinal Dolan I can hardly respond. (Is there an adequate word that combines fury, depression and shame?) I feel like reacting in a way that would do serious damage to my computer, which would be pointless.
Guess I'll write an editorial in my parish newsletter, and then send a copy to Unmitigated Tim. Not very adequate, but it's better than assault and battery on a priest, which would be a pretty serious canonical delict.
But not for decency. The author's point could still have been made w/o the coarse language.
In a sane world, Dolan would have been yanked out of New York and made a washroom attendant in the Vatican when he said of the PRO-ABORTION governor of New York (Paterson) that he “takes his Catholic faith seriously.”
Ann is absolutely correct about Dolan, and always has been.
Everyone, btw, should watch this: http://youtu.be/7bA_NbYSaGM
Ms barnhardt should also check out what the good book says about taxes... “render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar “.
She is correct in this article though; homosexuality is an abomination.
If there were another author as capable of mentioning let alone remarking so articulately on this debacle, without coarse language, I would post it instead.
(She did herself edit out one word ****.)
On another point: how else does the public become aware of the gravity and depravity of sodomy without a description. People today are so hung up on science and proof of arguments that to leave out the gory details of what sodomy is would be for people to be left in ignorance of the gravity of crime.
[ Ms barnhardt should also check out what the good book says about taxes... “render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar “. ]
What if you stop using money and instead switch to barter only, are you still rendering to Caesar then?
I’ve heard that the road to hell is paved by the skulls of bishops.
[ On another point: how else does the public become aware of the gravity and depravity of sodomy without a description. People today are so hung up on science and proof of arguments that to leave out the gory details of what sodomy is would be for people to be left in ignorance of the gravity of crime. ]
One can make a great argument against such acts of sodomy using science itself as most acts concerning it are very non-hygenic by their very nature.
The coarse language is unfortunate, but necessary.
[ I’ve heard that the road to hell is paved by the skulls of bishops. ]
Hmm, give people power, expect them to remain virtuous, be surpised when they become very corrupt...
I know the God of the Bible and the God of the Ciopybook headings agree on this, Man is flawed and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
God is a perfect being as God has infinte power and yet is NOT corrupt, that is the definition of being truly divine.
That's a really good question!
My issue w Ms barnhardt is where she says to stop filing tax returns.
Big fat red alert in glowing neon letters!
IIRC, the IRS says barter is income, correct me with a quote from the tax code if I’m wrong.
And how does one tell their employer not to pay them, or to pay them in barter?
IIRC the IRS also defines “contractors”; people tried to categorize themselves as contractors and the IRS got wind of it.... and put rules in the code about it.
So the mechanics of getting out from under the “render to Caesar “ requirement is rather difficult.
IMHO, I’d rather see an across the board 10% flat tax and pitch the code altogether. Everyone pays 10%.
[ IMHO, I’d rather see an across the board 10% flat tax and pitch the code altogether. Everyone pays 10%. ]
I’d rather see an income tax ONLY for foreign workers in the US and for foreign workers in other countries employed by domestically owned companies and a 10% Tariff on all imported good.
Being a citizen should mean the privlidge of NOT needing to pay Federal income taxes. And Citizenship should be guarded jelously by the populace.
If states want to charge income tax, let them...
“The author’s point could still have been made w/o the coarse language.”
I have found that, sometimes, it is the precise and explicit description of the act that jolts a quisling into thought.
It seems to me, and this might not be universally true, that one of the things women see in the “plus” column as regards sodomites is that the sodomites are not after *them*, the women. And sometimes a woman might think, “Well, I perform oral sex, so what’s the big deal about men doing it to each other?”
A description of the act dishonestly labeled anal “sex” such as is given in this article is, again sometimes, just what the doctor ordered for RRDD (right-reason deficit disorder).
RRDD is, of course, the condition of having accepted the degenerate left’s rationales for issues such as the enforced legitimization of same-sex attraction disorder, without the application of right reason to the matter.
It seems to me that some people toe the leftist line not because they are malevolent (although some are), and not because they are stupid (although some are), but because they have carelessly accepted the prevailing views without having applied right reason.
This is often because they were never taught to use right reason, or even taught that it exists. In such cases, it is possible to jar a person into looking at a question from a different perspective.
Of course, this is totally unnecessary for you, but it could do some good for someone else.
My main gripe is that he talks way, way, way too much and way, way, way too loosely. He's given the EneMedia every material they need to craft a "Spirit of St. Francis" --- which should be understood as a riff on the "Spirit of Vatican II" in which it didn't matter what was actually said, as long as you confabulated a zeitgeist that blew everybody in the wrong bassackward direction.
And that he's shaping up to be a lousy disciplinarian. Truly dangerous.
How I miss BXVI.
That’s true, and a good point, Alex. But La Barnhardt is not known for circumspection and finesse.
To think that he is in the see of the late, great Cardinal O’Connor.
Some of Benedict’s episcopal selections were not very good.
Cdl Dolan has been an absolute disaster. NYers are actually inclined to be very traditional and very devout, but he has undercut them at every turn. Stop it with the goofy football fan act, already! Preach and teach and act like a bishop.
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