The leftist reaction to Catholicism is the sacralization of total depravity. Everything Catholics despise, the left embraces: same sex attraction, promiscuity, the profanement of marriage through same-sex "marriage."
You seem to be dramatically misunderstanding Christianity - or you misrepresent it.
New Testament and especially Jesus teaching speaks virtually nothing about these topics. It however speaks a lot about all people being equal, tolerance and peace between people of different backgrounds.
This obsession of sexual topics only appears quite late, a whole millenium after Christ.
If you truly consider yourself a Catholic, I strongly suggest you read Catechism:
@kravietz I read it. Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm Have you read of the paradox of tolerance? Live and let live, and your children are recruited into sin.
And, as most bigots, you are reading the Catechism very selectively, cherry-picking what suits your current hate story:
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm
@kravietz For something to be good, it is requires that everything rightly concurs. When the various causes of a thing come together, they must come togeher in a suitable manner such that they are able to cause the thing together in a rightly ordered way. Another way to look at this is if, for example, two women came together in a deviant, sinful "marriage" to raise a child, those two "parents" must come together in such a manner that they do not contradict each other in relationship to what they cause in the thing that is caused. If the "parents" are defective, or if the relationship contains elements that are contrary to Natural Law, then the child will not be raised in a manner that is integrally good. As this relationship is fundamentally disordered, the women would be committing a grave sin.
St. Thomas further expounds on this in his _Questiones Disputatae de Malo_, "many are required to the good, which is perfected from the whole and integral cause, that in relation to evil, which occurs from a singular defect."
See also - Secunda Secundus
@kravietz "The good, according to Dionysius, is caused from one whole cause; but from a single defect arises evil." Evil arises from a single defect. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215), in its decree condemning the Manichaean dualism of the Catharists, taught that “the devil and the other evil spirits were created good in nature, but they became evil by their own actions," through their defect, their rejection of the Truth of God.
Defect means something that is lacking that would complete the being in a manner that is suited to its nature. For example, we would say that a man suffers an evil because he suffers from same-sex attraction. He does not desire his complement that is suited to his nature.
It only takes one defect or lack of being that is proper to a thing or that ought to be there, to render the whole evil.
See also
IV Sent., d. 16, q. 1 a. 1a, ad 3: Bonum, secundum Dionysium, causatur ex una integra causa; sed ex singulis defectibus consurgit malum.
De Ver., 28, a. 3, ad 15 and De Malo q. 2, a. 1, ad 3.
Ok, a quick sanity check: are you a Christian?
@kravietz I am a traditional Roman Catholic. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The Law has not been abolished, but rather man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Master who is its perfect fulfillment” (CCC 2053).
The law is rooted in Jesus, and in Natural Law. https://qua.name/revelation-and-revolt/obligations-to-our-fellow-man I am Christian to victims of pedophilia and sodomizers. I am Christian to sexual deviants by calling them into communion with the Church, and eternal salvation. Jesus said, "go and sin no more."
Hint: you are not Jesus.
It's precisely people with obsession of control, theologians and cynical priests like Pope Alexander VI, who turned Christianity into heartless quasi-legal system with themselves as top enforcers and providers of ultimate interpretations for personal gain.
If more people just followed His teaching, world would be a much better place...
@kravietz God's laws aren't a series of random rules He wrote down to torment us, but are a guide to the Good Life. The path is hard, but if we live as God commands, more often than not, we will have good, fulfilling lives. Sin is anything that cuts us off from a good life, and from God. The forces of Satan lust after the children of God, and seek to cleave us from God. The forces of Satan lie, and preach tolerance of sin, with the intent of recruiting souls to sin.
Jesus taught that virtue is like a plant that requires propitious environmental conditions, and a virtuous man works to ensure those conditions are maintained. Good does not arise out of elements which are contrary to Natural Law.
You are being mislead. I will pray for you.
> if we live as God commands,
Precisely. You should live by God's commands rather than writing rants about others being compliant or not compliant. Your job is to do good, not police others for not doing it.
@kravietz If you had a sister, and one day this sister says, "I plan to murder my unborn baby," is it not a sin to say nothing? Staying silent in the face of grievous mortal sin is committing the sin of scandal. Through omission, we give tacit approval.
"According to St. Thomas (II-II, Q. liii, a. 1) scandal is a word or action evil in itself, which occasions another’s spiritual ruin. It is a word or action, that is either an external act—for an internal act can have no influence on the conduct of another—or the omission of an external act, because to omit what one should do is equivalent to doing what is forbidden; it must be evil in itself, or in appearance; this is the interpretation of the words of St. Thomas: minus rectum."
https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/scandal
Speaking out against sin in these fallen times, when so many are being led astray, is necessary. Socially it is difficult, but Jesus tells us to sin no more. Scandal is sin.
Satan is stealing too many souls for Hell. https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2019/02/percentage-of-souls-who-go-to-heaven-vs.html
@MichaelA
Blanket condemnation and patronising without even trying to understand someone's situation is directly opposite to the actions of Christ, who took care of anyone, and *especially* of the weak and in need.
If you had a sister, you would be certainly the last person she would come for an advice I'm afraid. Just wondering do you really imagine a sister approaching you and saying "I plan to murder an unborn baby"?
@kravietz Women use euphemisms to talk about the murder of their unborn children. Words don't change what it is. Calling sodomy "gay" or "LGBT" doesn't change what it is, either.
Christ sat with sinners, and forgave their sins when they demonstrated their love of God and desire to change their ways.
To take care of someone is to lead them away from sin. Making excuses for sin isn't "care," but scandal. We do not need more "understanding" of deviant behavior. We understand that it has devastating consequences for the victims. We understand that western society has "understood" itself into promoting deviancy and denying the existence of sin.
By going against God's will, sinners cleave themselves from God, damning them to an eternity of Hellfire.
There is no situation where sodomy is excusable.
Do you sit with sinners, or you rather call them sodomites straight away? 🤔
