If someone declares the Magisterium bigoted (i.e. unjust), that person is declaring the Holy Spirit bigoted (i.e. unjust), since it teaches infallibly by the power of the Holy Spirit. That’s blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, which, last time I checked, is still the worst sin imaginable.
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I’m on deadline today (a theology article, a book review, a PowerPoint and a conference proposal). Although this is a stimulating discussion, I’ll have to pick it up over the weekend, if I complete my projects today.
The contraceptive pill sometimes ends a human life. It causes a silent abortion some of the times it is used. Some percent of the time fertilization (new life) is achieved and the birth control pill prevents it from being implanted (killing a human life).
Allow me to clarify it for you, per the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith:
Because only one can be true, and if you truly believe in your faith, then you believe that yours is the one truth, and everyone else is gravely in error. Our job is to being people to our true faith to save them from their sins.
I find it best to remain silent unless one can make a cogent response. Snarky remarks tend to discredit the the intellectual integrity of the poster and quash sincere discussion of the topic.
hahaha, what is that term? Never heard it before!
How much of a negative effect does it have to have on society leading towards a moral breakdown before you will act to stop it? What about if when all was said and done it would only be counted as 1% of the moral breakdown of society? Another poster was right in saying that we are already headed well down the road as a society. Are you willingly to throw in the towel and give the can another kick down the road even if its a small one? Please explain how much of an effect it would have to have before it would trump the sentimentalism you have?
Except in base 3 where 2 + 2 = 11.
But two objects and two other objects always makes four objects, no matter what numeral base is being used.
you forgot the greatest assumption of all…that our ability to reason has any relation to reality at all…
You might not be able to make it simpler, but you could make it more accurate. The Magisterium is not the same thing as the Holy Spirit. That is simply a ridiculous thing to say and no Pope or other member of the Magisterium would agree with it. The Magisterium makes mistakes and sometimes does things it should not. No Pope or other member of the Magisterium would deny that. In fact, the current and past Popes have clearly stated that the Church has made any number of mistakes through the years. The fact that some very few teachings are considered infallible does not transform the entire institution into godlings.
The teaching authority of the Magisterium is infallible. And all of its teaching is based in faith and morals. The basis of morality is justice. So if you disagree with the moral teaching of the Magisterium, you are declaring the Magisterium unjust. Since the Magisterium gets its marching orders from the Holy Spirit, you are therefore declaring the Holy Spirit unjust.
If this is the Church’s position, then I agree I was wrong. I would respectfully disagree with that position, however.
With intellectuals, bad results are never a consequence of their ideas being based on faulty assumptions but the failure to implement properly, or some other unrelated reason. So your question doesn’t have an answer.
C’mon, you know better than that. Everything that comes from the Magisterium is not infallible, nor is everything the Magisterium does a matter of faith or morals. One can disagree with the Magisterium on any number of things and not be either opposing infallible statements or declaring the Holy Spirit unjust. There are religions in which the leaders declare themselves to be Gods, but Catholicism is not one of them.
No, a few of the direct statement of the Holy Father are absolutely infallible (when he speaks ex-cathedra), but the body of teaching of the Magisterium is infallible by definition. The pope does not need to speak ex-cathedra on 99% of these matters because they are already established fact. Extraordinary declarations of dogma by the Pope are rare occurrences because almost all dogma is already in the body of teaching of the Magisterium. The Pope spoke ex-cathedra on the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception because these were not yet declared dogmas, but were part of the Deposit of Faith in Sacred Tradition.
The Magisterium is infallible and you are compelled by the Church to believe so. I didn’t write it. The Church wrote it.