I am inclined to agree with you on this point. As you know, I was previously a Muslim. I have fallen away from Islam and am investigating Catholicism. My reading of Catholicism (Bible and Magisterium) is that these sort of sins (homosexual activity, abortion, birth control, etc.) are all objectively sinful. The problem is that most Catholics pick and choose which points of Dogma that they want to de-emphasize. For example, I spoke with a Catholic woman, who attended daily mass. She said that she was “not so sure that homosexuality is disordered”. She suggested that “all the evidence is not in yet”. Her implicit point is that it may change. According to my view, it NEVER will. Many “devout” Catholics take this approach to Catholic teaching without attepting to understand the Natural Law that underpins its Moral Theology.
A second problem, in my opinion, is that most Catholics seem to think the “separation of Church and State” is Church Dogma. It is NOT and NEVER has been. So, these Catholics, not understanding Natural Law in its Thomist incarnation, seem to think that they should not allow their Christian beliefs bleed over into their civil responsibilities. They will say things like, “I believe abortion is wrong, but don’t want to force my opinion on others”. I always ask them whether their stance is TRUE or merely personally efficacious. If they believed it was TRUE, then abortion is Murder and using all lawful means to stop hinder this evil practice should be carried out. They take similar stances on other objective evils that concupiscience leads to. All these factors lead to western (formerly Christian) societies have shrinking populations and are racked with social ills.
Islamic societies have their own social ills. This would be a whole other thread. Whether or not these are due to Islam or in spite of Islam would depend on perspective. Islam and its stance on music is an example of my problems with Islam. I totally agree that some music and things associated with music are morally questionable, but I cannot see how music generally is morally wrong. That fact that Islam has a wooden literalistic understanding of Natural Law is a huge hinderance to me.
). On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of Christians and Catholics embace cultural and moral relativism wholeheartedly. Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, historically, have many similarities morally, but modernism has reeked havoc on the moral values of the formerly Christian world.
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Opps. Thanks for letting me know. Yeah I have speech recognition software that types for me it likes to mix up those two words I usually catch it at that time I didn’t obviously! That’s funny about your dad actually many of my friends are military personnel or veterans some of them were even combat engineers. I think I will leave that suff to my friends. I could just see them out there with your dad!