The Inconvenient Conscience

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Why do people strain to accommodate absolute sexual freedom as a matter of conscience? Why does no one plead for the right to racism or sexism as a matter of conscience? Could it be because the liberal concept of conscience has been specially formulated in order to facilitate the sexual indiscipline that our culture upholds?

Much of the debate over conscience in Catholic circles focuses on the possibility of a conscience set against the Church’s teaching. This seems to me a peculiar notion. For a start, it seems to mean that dissenters believe that following the Church on, say, contraception or same-sex relationships, would actually give them a guilty conscience. Yet it seems clear that most dissenters do not fear guilt if they obey the Church. What they fear is precisely the frustration of their unsatisfied desires.

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It may not be politically correct but it sure tells it like it is. Seems the church has been trying to close the cafeteria for a long time.
 
The real problem in my opinion is that the role of Hell has been downplayed for too long and on the flip side too much grace is being dished out. If you ask me St Paul talks about this situation of abusing grace and sin when he says something like “where sin increased grace abounded all the more” people take that to mean sin sin and sin somemore. Im talking about both the Catholic side and (mostly) protestant side (which sadly spills over into the Catholic side).
 
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Much of the debate over conscience in Catholic circles focuses on the possibility of a conscience set against the Church’s teaching. This seems to me a peculiar notion. For a start, it seems to mean that dissenters believe that following the Church on, say, contraception or same-sex relationships, would actually give them a guilty conscience. Yet it seems clear that most dissenters do not fear guilt if they obey the Church. What they fear is precisely the frustration of their unsatisfied desires.
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Of course for some people it would seem to them to cause them to feel guilty. A married woman who should not attempt to have kids at the moment (for a real reason) could have no idea what to do with a husband and his advances. It is very easy for a person with minimal catechesis to believe they must comply with having sex from time to time with their spouse, particularly if that spouse is saying just that. So the woman would be in a bind and not know what to do. Refusing sex could easily make her feel horribly guilty. Contraception or sterilization could easily seem the lesser guilty thing to do, especially if she believes (as most do) that NFP is ineffective.

Of course, you could say she ought not feel guilty, nevertheless the guilty feeling is there, and they probably don’t yet have the ability to sort it out well, perhaps not having any clue of how to separate real from fake guilt.

Maybe we should be teaching women not to value being accommodating.
 
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