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Basically, the nature of marriage is not a religious question. Marriage comes to us from nature. Christ sanctifies marriage as a sacrament for the baptized, giving it significance beyond its natural reality; the State protects marriage because it is essential to family and to the common good of society. But neither Church nor State invented marriage, and neither can change its nature.
Nature and Nature’s God, to use the expression in the Declaration of Independence of our country, give the human species two mutually complementary sexes, able to transmit life through what the law has hitherto recognized as a marital union. Consummated sexual relations between a man and a woman are ideally based on mutual love and must always be based on mutual consent, if they are genuinely human actions. But no matter how strong a friendship or deep a love between persons of the same sex might be, it is physically impossible for two men, or two women, to consummate a marital union. Even in civil law, non-consummation of a marriage is reason for annulment.
Raw data that begs to be contextualized
That America’s culture is no longer predominantly Christian seems so obvious that it hardly needs to be said. But for those of us who still keep the faith, the answer is not to withdraw into Christian cloisters or withdraw into Christian cultural bubbles. It is to engage the cultural more deepky and seriously.
Perfection is not a description of God that is found in the writings of the Jewish prophets. It’s Greek, not Hebrew (or apostolic, for that matter).
The reason why peaceful and popular activism almost never occurs successfully, the reason why good people are made to stand and suffer, falls not only to the establishment elites who seek out and abuse power; there are others who share in the blame. Regardless of the age, the culture, or the social conditions, there is ALWAYS a percentage of the general populace that embraces the totalitarian dynamic. There is always someone in our neighborhood, in our workplace, and within our family that finds vindication or advantage in supporting the state, even if the state has turned viciously criminal. They are not only useful idiots; they are conscious participants in the process of pacification and enslavement of their own society. They understand their role perfectly, and they enjoy what they do.
The psychologist Carl Jung in his examination of the rise of violent fascism in Germany as well as the collectivist surveillance state in communist Russia theorized that there is in fact a certain percentage of people in any given epoch that carry within them a latent ability to abandon conscience.
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From the PleaseConvinceMe Blog
Perhaps the problem lies in our view of the nature of time and eternity. Like a fish asked to describe what life on land would be like, it isn’t easy for us to contemplate such foreign notions as “living forever.” But God is not bound by time. He created time at the same point (from our perspective) that he created matter – what’s referred to as the time-space continuum. There is never a before or after for him; only an eternal present. He may have brought us into existence at a point on that time-space continuum, but because he is not bound by it, it is non-sensical to think of God as waiting for our birth in the same way that our Earthly parents did. From his perspective, we are always eternally present to him, at whatever stage of life we may perceive ourselves to be. When our souls depart this time-space continuum, they too cease to be bound by time. That, simply put, is why the torment is eternal: because God is eternal.
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a “more or less persistent and thoroughgoing numbness or insensibility with regard to the sacred.”
A consequence of this insensibility is that reality and the order of being are improperly experienced
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Well, yes, as a matter of fact, we do.
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