tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post7982412659671419745..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: From a Reuters Report, as carried in the Irish TimesMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-62935191306395753482013-01-16T12:48:50.908-08:002013-01-16T12:48:50.908-08:00
The word holocaust, when generally used to descri...<br />The word holocaust, when generally used to describe abortion refers more to the vast loss of innocent life, of people whose humanity and deaths are unacknowledged or viewed as unimportant (not to the parents obviously). I view the abortionists and those who work in that money spinning business as agents of the holocaust myself. What a way to spend your working days and talent. Desperately sad. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-61903929194105034102013-01-15T13:26:10.597-08:002013-01-15T13:26:10.597-08:00I agree that the sensibilities of women who have h...I agree that the sensibilities of women who have had an abortion are important, although if taken far enough that might impede one from any but the most dispassionate condemnation of abortion.<br /><br />(The same thing also occurs to me about those road safety ads in which the consequences of irresponsible driving are graphically shown. Surely people who have been responsible for deaths or maiming on the road already suffer incredible amounts of guilt?)<br /><br />Thank you for your very kind words. I blush!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-67781074991938291892013-01-14T16:04:07.445-08:002013-01-14T16:04:07.445-08:00Thanks for the link. Enlightening. Might the pro...Thanks for the link. Enlightening. Might the problem might be rash usages and interpretations of the law bred by the sensitivities, prejudices, obsessions of the day, rather than the law itself? In another time and place, those same laws would be used to go after others entirely, whoever fell foul of the dominant opinion of the day. Maybe the problem is with making laws on the giving and taking of offence?<br /><br />On the use of "holocaust": I don't think the parallel is really fair as so many people who choose to have an abortion will always look back on the decision with feelings of doubt, sadness and loss, wishing it was a decision they had never had to make. They will have thought about the arguments about the sanctity of human life in all its forms and weighed these against considerations about quality of life and the avoidance of suffering, and drawn an agonising and sincere , even if it turns out ultimately to be wrong. To suggest they are partial agents of a holocaust is, I think, going too far. And I think it backfires with the left wing imagination as it might play to the perception of right wingers as abrasive, cruel, insensitive.<br /><br />I find the Catechism a bit confusingly worded on homosexuality which it begins as defining as the relations between men and between women, when I would have thought it is the disposition, whether relations form or not. But I think we agree that the point made in the Catechism is that the act not the disposition is immoral.<br /><br />Thanks for your prolific blogging at the moment. You are one of my "must-reads". <br /><br />mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984879719516554591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-20173060220447964352013-01-13T17:00:37.235-08:002013-01-13T17:00:37.235-08:00I have actually amended the post (which was hastil...I have actually amended the post (which was hastily written) as a result of your fair criticism, so thank you.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-40952191465086022142013-01-13T16:47:20.012-08:002013-01-13T16:47:20.012-08:00Hi Mick
Thank you for your criticism, you are qui...Hi Mick<br /><br />Thank you for your criticism, you are quite right, I should be more moderate in my use of language. I meant "homosexuality" as a shorthand for "homosexual activity" but that is not obvious from my words. The Catechism says that the disposition itself is disordered by that is not the same as immoral.<br /><br />As for progressive ideas that it is forbidden by law to question, there are examples such as this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin.html. However, it is more something that seems imminent rather than upon us.<br /><br />As for my use of the word "holocaust", I think you are probably right about this too. I guess, to me, the one heroic image of resistance against a great evil that would appeal to a left-wing imagination is the Holocaust and therefore the comparison seems appropriate-- but, in reality, it would not achieve the desired result anyway. There seems to me a fair parallel in that millions of human lives are lost through direct human agency but, of course, not in an organized or genocidal way.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-59901436815987888842013-01-13T16:19:29.607-08:002013-01-13T16:19:29.607-08:00Maolsheachlann
A side issue to this post, I know,...Maolsheachlann<br /><br />A side issue to this post, I know, but Catholic teaching is that homosexual acts are disordered, not that homosexuality is immoral, isn't it?<br /><br />And can you give examples of progressive ideas that it is forbidden by law to question?<br /><br />Sorry to press but I think it's very important to be accurate in dealing with emotive issues like this, which is also why I think you were wrong to use the word 'holocaust' in your letter about abortion. <br /><br />mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13984879719516554591noreply@blogger.com