Why is it a big deal if someone does not follow the Church’s teachings on the controversial topics? When it comes down to it, who is worse the person who agrees with the Church’s teachings but persists in breaking the golden rule. Most of the controversial topics are honestly debatable. But theft will always be a sin, same with being dishonest, and intolerant. Some people strongly disagree with the church’s doctrines yet they do not attack those who do agree, not do they care, they can accept disagreement. It would be wrong to attack someone for disagreeing with you. Some people will never on this God-green Earth agree with the church’s teachings ever. I mean as a long you are decent human being to another person, why does it matter whether you vote for gay marriage, abortion, etc? A lot of people say God will judge. I have never seen God. Sure, I fear his punishment and ramifications for my actions. I have never died before either. I think people should just try to be decent to each other, isn’t that the most important?
First of all, if one really follows the golden rule, they wouldn’t support abortion.
Your justification on why people don’t have to follow the Church’s teachings seems like an attack on people who do. Rather than explaining why one would not have to follow it, you asked the question who is better, the one who breaks the golden rule or the one who disobeys the church’s teachings, which incorrectly implies that everyone who follows the Church’s teaching does not follow the golden rule. The golden rule is actually part of the Church’s teaching. However, the ones that you deem as part of the controversial topics of the Church are all the ones that condemn acts of sinful pleasure or enjoyment for man(In other words, no one is being hurt materially unlike some sins like murder.) For example, the Church’s teaching on gay marriage is against it, even though the people who take part in it want it. But everyone agrees on the church’s teaching on murder, because it involves harm to a human being. If, however, the act is not harmful to a human being but rather for the enjoyment of a human being, the enemies of the Church support it.
Why do they support it? Because they value man over God, in the same way Adam and Eve rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden. It is because of self love, which goes against the golden rule and the new commandment, that they support these intrinsically evil acts. How else would someone be able to condone preventing someone from being born? The excuse that they don’t support it because it isn’t logical or moral doesn’t work because the natural law is written in every heart of man. It is ,however, not perceived by everyone clearly and immediately and sinful man needs grace and revelation to understand it completely. But if man rejects God by choosing his own personal enjoyment over service to God, then they won’t receive the grace to understand it. This is precisely why the people who don’t support the Church’s “controversial” teachings do not and cannot follow Christ’s teachings such as the golden rule which requires selflessness, but we have already shown that it is because of self-love that they reject the Magisterium.
Lastly, your last sentence is incorrect and is the fault of your thinking. The most important thing is worship of God, not the betterment of man. Everything should be
ad majorem dei gloriam( for the greater glory of God). He loves us beyond imagination, and so it is proper to love Him back. He is our Creator whom we should love with all our heart,mind, and soul, and in return God will pay us a huge reward.
**He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. - ** Matthew 12:30
You cannot pick and choose what you want to believe from Christ and what you don’t want to. The above verse explains why.
