PDA

View Full Version : Papal Encyclical: On Care for our Common Home


Winehole23
06-19-2015, 12:40 PM
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Aztecfan03
06-19-2015, 01:12 PM
Since everything is interrelated, concern for the protection of nature is also incompatible with the justification of abortion. How can we genuinely teach the importance of concern for other vulnerable beings, however troublesome or inconvenient they may be, if we fail to protect a human embryo, even when its presence is uncomfortable and creates difficulties? “If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of the new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away”.
boutons_deux
06-19-2015, 01:29 PM
"incompatible with the justification of abortion."

RCC's anti-abortion ideology would be reasonable if it would quit condemning Catholics to hell for eternity for contraception.
Aztecfan03
06-19-2015, 06:22 PM
"incompatible with the justification of abortion."

RCC's anti-abortion ideology would be reasonable if it would quit condemning Catholics to hell for eternity for contraception.



It's not codemning them any more than any other sin. All to be saved through Jesus. But I also disagree with the Catholics on the issue of birth control. They take a passage from Genesis out of context to try to ban it but it wasn't the spilling of his seed that was wicked, but his selfish motivations and refusal to perform his legal duties based on their culture.
Winehole23
06-21-2015, 03:17 AM
abortion is a sidebar in all this, y'all
ElNono
06-21-2015, 03:31 AM
It's a moral document from an entity that deals in morals, so in that sense, it's not unexpected.

Since some people have a hard time untangling moral guidance from politics, especially those that view politics as an intrinsic instrument to impart moral guidance, it's also unsurprising this was heavily politicized.

Now, I really don't give two damns about religion, so YMMV...
Winehole23
06-21-2015, 03:52 AM
unexpected? no. the pope is Catholic, after all. so he emphasizes custodial responsibility over doctrinal dominion...
ElNono
06-21-2015, 03:55 AM
Generally, as humans, we can certainly do better than this:

http://online.wsj.com/media/031110pod07.jpg