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Faith,
Again, Catholics have choices. There are almost always ways to purchase books without supporting a store that sells things we disagree with.
If we take a position that “it is not my problemo” then we can never be successful at advancing any moral good. It is that very attitude that causes abortion to remain legal. People walk around saying to themselves “oh well, yeah I am against abortion, but who am I to tell another person what to do?”
It is never easy to discern the proper path to choose with these issues. Yet, when we have alternate choices that support a more moral path, then I believe we are bound as Catholics to make those choices. If you cannot buy a given book you need or want anywhere but Walden Book Stores (which also sells the Da Vinci Code), then purchasing the book there causes no moral dilema. Yet, if you can purchase that same book in a Catholic store, or even online from the publisher, then the moral dilema disappears.
We are supposed to help change the world and we cannot do that if we just accept everything the world does. When we make companies profitable, and those same companies support grave sin, then we cannot be shocked that grave those grave sins continue.
Do you eat ice cream? I do, its my favorite food ever! Yet, a couple of years ago I learned that the owner of Dairy Queen pours millions into Planned Parenthood every year, and PP funds more abortions every year then any other entity. So, if I continue to buy ice cream in the DQ stores, then I am willingly helping the owner pay for abortions. If enough customers went to other stores, DQ would be forced to change their policies, or go out of business.
We are called to be Catholics in a secular world. That is not easy, yet Jesus never said it would be easy.
Again, Catholics have choices. There are almost always ways to purchase books without supporting a store that sells things we disagree with.
If we take a position that “it is not my problemo” then we can never be successful at advancing any moral good. It is that very attitude that causes abortion to remain legal. People walk around saying to themselves “oh well, yeah I am against abortion, but who am I to tell another person what to do?”
It is never easy to discern the proper path to choose with these issues. Yet, when we have alternate choices that support a more moral path, then I believe we are bound as Catholics to make those choices. If you cannot buy a given book you need or want anywhere but Walden Book Stores (which also sells the Da Vinci Code), then purchasing the book there causes no moral dilema. Yet, if you can purchase that same book in a Catholic store, or even online from the publisher, then the moral dilema disappears.
We are supposed to help change the world and we cannot do that if we just accept everything the world does. When we make companies profitable, and those same companies support grave sin, then we cannot be shocked that grave those grave sins continue.
Do you eat ice cream? I do, its my favorite food ever! Yet, a couple of years ago I learned that the owner of Dairy Queen pours millions into Planned Parenthood every year, and PP funds more abortions every year then any other entity. So, if I continue to buy ice cream in the DQ stores, then I am willingly helping the owner pay for abortions. If enough customers went to other stores, DQ would be forced to change their policies, or go out of business.
We are called to be Catholics in a secular world. That is not easy, yet Jesus never said it would be easy.
