Staggers the imagination...

It has been throughout history of the human race, a desire to control, be in control and dictate to our environment, based upon our feelings, wants and desires in order to bring us happiness and a feeling of warm and fuzzy, often termed “Love.”  As human beings, we are created and contingent, unable to create ourselves, nor control our daily existence, by simply willing it, let alone create all that was, is and will be, from nothing.  This fact would further support the philosophical proofs for the existence of God, given to us by St. Thomas Aquinas.  However, it seems our culture and world still continues to attempt to control, manipulate and change the natural laws.  The terms, “tolerance” and “bullying” seem to be thrown around, by the ethical/moral relativists, in order to force society to accept same sex unions.  By using such key words, they attempt to force upon us, unnatural acts within the natural law, given to us by Our Creator.  As God is the creator of all that existed, exists now, and will exist it is absurd for someone to assert, “We need to bring the bible, kicking and screaming into the modern world.” As if God could not have known, since the beginning of time, what was going to take place, in 33 AD, 70 AD, in 1863 AD and in 2012 AD?  Would that not indicate God does not have full and complete knowledge of everything?

As put forth in The Catechism of The Catholic Church;

The revelation of the ineffable name “I Am who Am” contains then the truth that Go alone IS.  The Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and following it the Church’s Tradition, understood the divine name in the sense: God is the fullness of Being and of every perfection, without origin and without end.  All creatures receive all that they are and have from him; but he alone is his very being, and he is of himself everything that he is. (CCC 213)

God’s truth is his wisdom, which commands the whole created order and governs the world.  God, who alone made heaven and earth, can alone impact true knowledge of every created thing in relation to himself. (CCC 216)

God is also truthful when he reveals himself –the teaching that comes from God is “true instruction.”  When he sends his Son into the world it will be “to bear witness to the truth:” “We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, to know him who is true.” (CCC 217)

As it was said by the lead character which Robin Williams played, in the movie “Good Morning Vietnam,” “It staggers the imagination.”  If such is put forth by God as our creator, how is it possible that we, merely created creatures, existing in time and contingent upon God to exist, can and have full and complete knowledge of everything deem,” We need to bring the bible, kicking and screaming into the modern world?” Does this mean that the laws of God only apply to certain periods of time?  Does this mean God does not exist outside of time and He has to learn from us?  Does this mean that human beings since the dawn of time never had to struggle with same sex attractions and the desires of the flesh in a disordered way?  We all have the freewill to choose to follow God, The Gospel and The Church or not.  However, for created creatures to assert and manipulate God’s natural law, to fit our own desires and wants, because we know ourselves better than whom created us?

Chastity and homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex.  It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures.  Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained.  Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law.  They close the sexual act to the right of life.  They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity.  Under no circumstances can they be approved. (CCC 2357)

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.  These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition. (CCC 1995)

As Catholics we are to judge the action not the person, “Hate the sin but love the sinner.”  To tolerate evil and unjust actions are wrong regardless of the person.  That does not mean the person is somehow evil and worthy of our disdain.  However, the assertion that we as Catholics are forced to accept enacted laws that oppose the natural law of God, in the name of “Tolerance” and “Anti-bullying” is at best wrong, disordered, philosophically and theologically.  It does not matter how badly we want to live a certain lifestyle, we have no authority to manipulate God’s law.  We cannot have both and, if a person accepts God as Creator and that Jesus Christ His only begotten Son lived, died and was raised from the dead, we cannot manipulate His laws because it somehow does not fit our “Modern” culture and “We need to bring the bible, kicking and screaming into the modern world.”

The assertion that the creator of everything, has to somehow change and be brought up to speed in the year 2012, in order to fit a world and culture that exists only in time and was brought into existence by Him, is at best absurd.      

References

(1995). The Catechism of the Catholic Church – CCC. New York: DoubleDay.