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Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Catholicism, Racism, and the Sins of Pride and Envy

Catholic philosophy, based on Aristotle and the Biblical tests as it is, sees "race" as incidental to the underlying human qualities of the individual. Humans are the rational animals, bodies formed by immortal, rational souls – souls give shape to the body, and when the body dies, the soul departs and thus the body goes back to the natural elements. Height, weight, age, skin color, intelligence level, skull shape, whatever, are incidental compared to the hybrid soul-body creatures possessed of an eternal destiny that constitutes human beings.

However, the races seem to have different graces. They certainly have different histories and different cultures. And in a huge variety of ways, these cannot be just blended together seamlessly. In the frescoes in Pompeii, we can observe women on the beach wearing what look like modern-day bikinis. But in all of the long and fabled history of China, they never developed such clothes. Such dress never – remotely – occurred to them, along with democracy, one-man one-woman marriages (a Western idea that is, from the beginning separated East from West), and so much else.

We're all related through Adam and Eve and "equal" before God, because of the human nature He has given us. But we are different. Most basically, men and woman are different, yet we reside in a culture insisting "sex", i.e., the sexes, are interchangeable "genders" – literally and figuratively (sex-change operations are supposed to create "women" from men, etc.). All that is absolute nonsense, yet it is the regnant philosophy today.

We deal with our very real differences through true Charity, and indeed, no doubt God allows these differences as an occasion of charity – yet Marxism is an absolute war against that charity. Our problems are inherently moral, and the underlying sins of pride, envy, and greed, must be preached against, fervently by the Church -- and demonstrated in its own actions. But the current Church leadership is embracing all the ills, conceits, and even evils of modern society.

None of this can end well.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

So is this why Pope Francis is a Communist? Or at least very friendly to "serious Sociailsm"?

Amici,

It's been well remarked upon that Bergoglio is either a Communist or a Communist/Socialist sympathizer. His comments against Capitalism and in favor of some sort of Socialism are legion, that's for sure. 

Whether Bergi himself is or not, it is essential to make plain that in the morality of the political realm, Socialism is evil because it strokes envy; indeed, it is built almost entirely out of envy. It pretends to be sourced in Our Lord's charity, and a call for true "social justice" but, alas, it is clearly evil, stoking the fire of envy in every way. 

And envy is famously the ONE sin that has no pleasure in it, unless spite is considered a pleasure. (It is in Hell.)

And in a sense, that is the real, underlying problem with the Novus Ordo Mass. With everything else that can be said for or against it, the N.O. seems designed to so easily stroke the ego. It's format, one can argue, is built almost entirely out of some aspect of pride; for example: pride the priest faces me, pride the priest talks to me and pride that I "understand" every single word, pride that I don't pray at my own pace but in rather lockstep with all the others; i.e. "we're all equal; no one is spiritually better somehow."

Those messages are there; they're built in. Many can ignore them, the saintly, the truly humble, but for the rest of us, that "ignoring" hard to do. 

So, is it no wonder Bergi & Co. all seem to be very, very Communist friendly?

An Préachán