Article: We Live in a Society Which Calls On Us to Seek Affirmation and Recognition, Not from Our Creator, But from Our Most Disordered Neighbors

[mdgspencer]

“If we are seized by the concern for what the unfaithful will think of us as we live our our Christian principles, we are suffering from the sin of human respect,” this article says. Anyone who dares to go against the new sexual morality, must have little concern for human respect, it says too.
This article is at www.catholicstand.com/catholics-and-the-sin-of-human-respect/

 

[1Lord1Faith]

I don’t like the way he uses the term “human respect”. It seems like he means human idolatry.

 

[SuperLuigi]

Finally! An article that supports what I’ve been saying!

This is telling:

To exacerbate matters, many seekers of human respect are nominal Catholics who openly revile and insult faithful Catholics.

 

[SuperLuigi]

DaddyGirl;13741190]I don’t think society calls for that.
Some people get overly concerned about what others think of them…but society doesn’t “call on them to seek” that–especially not the people we don’t admire or respect.
It’s up to the person if they seek that sort of affirmation or no

The cultures in the First World most certainly do, especially in academia and media.

Society, I feel, does the opposite…it celebrates peoples’ differences and calls on us to get along as best as we can.

No, it doesn’t. You might do that, but society? No chance. And comments like those are normally just cover-fire for the secular forces in the article. They expect traditionalists and conservatives to follow all these rules while the other side gets the advantage by breaking them.

Just look at how people who disagree with so-called gay “marriage” are treated. Does taking bakers and florists = “get along as best we can”.

And just look at the news today about American political rallies.

 

[mikekle]

The cultures in the First World most certainly do, especially in academia and media.

No, it doesn’t. You might do that, but society? No chance. And comments like those are normally just cover-fire for the secular forces in the article. They expect traditionalists and conservatives to follow all these rules while the other side gets the advantage by breaking them.

Just look at how people who disagree with so-called gay “marriage” are treated. Does taking bakers and florists = “get along as best we can”.

And just look at the news today about American political rallies.

I think you are correct, people today are sort of expected to have certain beliefs, like SSM, and really the acceptance of gay lifestyle, if someone openly criticizes this, they are condemned, even hated by society, called bigots, racists, etc, but most of things are just whats currently ‘popular’ too, it was not that long ago where it was the complete opposite, and anyone openly accepting of SSM or even being gay, brought on ridicule and hatred, when I was in middle school it was an insult to be called gay, nowadays thats not the case.

The thing is though, whats ‘popular’ changes very quickly too, in another decade or two, popular may be completely different than today?