I can say the same thing about my ethics of personal empowerment.
Good, then allow us to do the same. Allow us the same freedom of dissent that you claim for yourself. Act with a bit of charity. Our belief system is frequently being challenged like this, our charitable goals being regulated so that we have to choose between continuing to deliver charity as we have been and compromise our beliefs or give up that particular means of charity and maintain fidelity to our beliefs and our very identity, our involvement in social justice issues being denied unless we kowtow to an entire platform which contains planks that we cannot accept, being told to endure the miseducation about our past, being told to shut up and take it when we are maligned in ways that would not be tolerated of most other religious groups. Why is it ok to say that Catholics should be expected to sacrifice their identity when it seems like it is not ok to say the same to other groups?
I suppose we could argue exegesis all day, but...
The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.
Keeping Holy the Sabbath is the commandment. Jesus was challenging not the pharisees' insistance on keeping the Sabbath holy, but the method that they espoused, which actually was in contradiction to keeping it holy.
he law demanded that the woman be stoned to death.
That says something about punishment, about civil order, but what does it say about right and wrong. We already know that Jesus intensified the moral law, and this is an example of it, showing them that to judge in this way when they are not worthy of judging is also immoral. It was not a compromise of morality, it was an intensification of it.
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Date: 2006-03-13 10:25 pm (UTC)Good, then allow us to do the same. Allow us the same freedom of dissent that you claim for yourself. Act with a bit of charity. Our belief system is frequently being challenged like this, our charitable goals being regulated so that we have to choose between continuing to deliver charity as we have been and compromise our beliefs or give up that particular means of charity and maintain fidelity to our beliefs and our very identity, our involvement in social justice issues being denied unless we kowtow to an entire platform which contains planks that we cannot accept, being told to endure the miseducation about our past, being told to shut up and take it when we are maligned in ways that would not be tolerated of most other religious groups. Why is it ok to say that Catholics should be expected to sacrifice their identity when it seems like it is not ok to say the same to other groups?
I suppose we could argue exegesis all day, but...
The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.
Keeping Holy the Sabbath is the commandment. Jesus was challenging not the pharisees' insistance on keeping the Sabbath holy, but the method that they espoused, which actually was in contradiction to keeping it holy.
he law demanded that the woman be stoned to death.
That says something about punishment, about civil order, but what does it say about right and wrong. We already know that Jesus intensified the moral law, and this is an example of it, showing them that to judge in this way when they are not worthy of judging is also immoral. It was not a compromise of morality, it was an intensification of it.