St.Sharky said:
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Yes, of course, because abortion really is as bad as the holocaust
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And you wonder why normal people are afraid to go to Church these days?
Yes, abortion is actually much worse. Since Roe, 45 million innocent human beings have been slaughtered by abortion, while only about 10 million were killed in the holocaust.
On topic, the article said:
But the outspoken Senator stuck to his belief that statements from Rome saying that homosexuality was “objectively evil” and “intrinsically disordered” were “in line with the prejudices that included Hitler and Himmler”.
I wonder why he doesn’t compare the belief that adultery is “objectively evil”, or the belief that schizophrenia is “intrinsically disordered” with Hitler’s ideology?
Another example of the inability of certain people to understand that these phrases refer to
actions, not to
people. That is the consequence, though, of the tendency among liberals not to believe in free will - people are not seen as
choosing their actions, but as
being their actions. Not a very healthy or hopeful way of looking at human behavior, or so it seems to me. If I didn’t choose my actions, I cannot act differently in the future - how depressing.
Actually, there is some truth to it, in that concupisence wounds our free will, but there is also hope, because of God’s grace, that we can overcome it. Maybe, then, that’s why we seem harsh to secularists - we are treating people as though they could control themselves, when lacking God’s grace, they really can’t.
I begin to think more and more that the secular worldview is hopeless, and that there is no point in trying to reason with secularists on their own terms, since this means ignoring what we know to be true. Perhaps our energy would be better spent on trying to promote the Catholic faith as a whole, instead of arguing about issues from a secular perspective.