Elementary Conflict Between Political And Catholic Views

By Della Monroe


A politician recently asserted that the Pope was not credible where climate change was concerned. The argument was that Catholic Church should leave science in the hands of scientists. Such view holders have often failed to do it. They are cottoning onto every phony scientist to rebut a reality that human operations have huge effects on climate change. This is also another aspect of Catholic views.

Diverse politicians keep on insisting that the Church should concentrate on their core business. This is theology or morality. Whenever politics and the Church tangle, controversies about science theory usually boil over. One main argument features a demand that agriculture policy and other diverse issues must remain beyond the message scope of Church. The Church rebuts with one common message. This is environment or creation are one and same thing. It shoots forth-moral reasoning that everybody should really take better care of creation.

Another argument founders upon economic imperatives on profit that have overwhelmed moral imperatives to take responsible care of creation. A side admonishment on this economic view is that politicians must concentrate on their real vocation, which is the common good. It should not concern making obscene profits from extraction industries.

Catholics regard certain five issues as non-negotiable. Stem cell researching, euthanasia, human cloning, abortion, and same sex wedlock are the five issues. They run parallel to quite a number of social conservation Republican favorites. Other outstanding issues in this cover degradation of the environment, abject poverty, and various wars see no mentioning. Another often ignored issue is universal sin irrespective apostolic exhortation that calls for its consideration as well as the Church have sort its adoption.

Another deeper snag with these five issues arises because of a sense each Church teaching cannot be negotiated. These teaching flow from truth revealed by Jesus Christ, whether they feature poverty or abortion. Living within a pluralistic society infers negotiation should arise about which views should go into public policy or not. Concentrating on the five by a certain group of political thinkers leads to impressions that commitment upon stopping environmental degradation and eradicating poverty are negotiable. Catholics are clear in their minds regarding possessing moral obligations to protect the environment.

Democrats most often take an opposite view to that taken by Republicans. GOP Catholics downplay or deny social aspects of teachings. Democrats confuse personal issues with private issues. Further, they assert government must not interfere with private issues. Abortion may involve personal decision but it is not a private one. Asserting this is game rigging. Should a matter concern and affect two people, it is no longer private.

Furthermore, numerous laws forbid an individual from engaging in certain activities with their own bodies. Taking of illicit drugs is disallowed legally. So is taking legal alcoholic beverages before driving a car. Confusion is as common as it is lamentable with both Republican Catholics and Democratic Catholics showing this.

It makes for bizarre observation and noteworthiness that various political groupings diverge from Church teachings in precisely similar ways. This is through acquiring libertarian exemptions. Women taking pro-choice stands ask their bodies to be left alone. Republicans taking pro-business stances ask everyone to keep away from their corporations.




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