RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 19, 2015 at 3:02 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2015 at 3:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:I appreciate your assessment and questions.
By "pure and authentic self" I just mean that the act itself remains in it's original form without being changed in order to render it infertile. I understand your comparison about the function of your fists. But since sex is sacred (because it creates something sacred), it must be handled with much more honor and care than a fist. Also, in your examples you speak about things that are immoral... beating creatures and acting violently. Those awful things are not good comparisons to the creation of new human life.
They may not be..Catholic...but they are -consequences- of the same process you used, the same argument, if followed through consistently...without special pleading..and that's precisely the problem.
Quote:If you believe the story about Onan in the OT was written word for word, literally as it happened, then yes, you are correct about the last sentence there. As I said, I believe the OT was written allegorically. I believe the point of this story was to teach that contraception is immoral, and that's an important point. But I do not believe God literally "killed" Onan, or that a man named Onan even existed. I cannot speak for those who think otherwise, though.It doesn't -matter- whether or not I believe the story to be literal...it is a portion of the catholic position on why we shouldn't use contraception. Even as allegory..it is evil...it doesn;t become less immoral because it's "just a story" about god killing someone. They're all stories............but this one is pretty disgusting. Agreed? And no, Catholic, it's not an important point just because you or your church claims it to be..but if it were..perhaps they should have taken just a little more time and done it right...don't you think? After all...they could have told it any way they chose...just being a story and all.....is this the effort your faith is willing to put in...should it be surprised to see it's returns on that effort diminishing?
Comments on that piece regarding vicarious redemption, btw?
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