In so doing, it should defend not just the earth, water and air as gifts of Creation that belong to everyone. She should also protect man from destroying himself.
The Church has a responsibility to both protect the World and keep humanity from destroying himself.
It is necessary to have something like an ecology of man, understood in the right sense. It is not metaphysics that has been overcome by time, when the Church speaks of the nature of the human being as man and woman, and asks that this natural order be respected.
This has to do with faith in the Creator and listening to the language of creation, which, if disregarded, would be man's self-destruction and therefore a destruction of God's work itself.
There is a specific plan and design. Men are men. Women are women. Men should follow the natural order and act according to male nature, women according to female nature. Failure to do so invites self-destruction and the destruction of God's Creation.
That which has come to be expressed and understood with the term 'gender' effectively results in man's self-emancipation from Creation (nature) and from the Creator. Man wants to do everything by himself and to decide always and exclusively about anything that concerns him personally. But this is to live against truth, to live against the Spirit Creator.
In the modern world, there are those who discuss gender identity and gender politics, wanting to liberate themselves from what God has intended and instead claim the freedom to express their gender identity and gender preference alike by their own terms. This goes against God and his Works.
The tropical rain forests deserve our protection, yes, but man does not deserve it less as a Creature of the Spirit himself, in whom is inscribed a message that does not mean a contradiction of human freedom but its condition.
Even as we acknowledge the dangers of environmental destruction, we must also acknowledge the dangers of spiritual environmental destruction. We must acknowledge that the world and creation are endangered by the immoral choices that those who would confuse gender and God's intent are making in the name of a freedom they do not actually possess.
The great theologians of Scholasticism described matrimony - which is the lifelong bond between a man and a woman - as a sacrament of Creation, that the Creator himself instituted, and that Christ, without changing the message of Creation, welcomed in the story of his alliance with men.
God gave us marriage. There is no marriage without God. And God defined it as being between a man and a woman. Christ affirmed that. And that's all there is to say.
Part of the announcement that the Church should bring to men is a testimonial for the Spirit Creator present in all of nature, but specially in the nature of man, who was created in the image of God.
We are created in the image of God, with an intent on God's part enbodied in that creation. To change that image or pervert that intent is to desecrate God's work and a failure to affirm what God has done.
(Analysis to follow. I'm working against LJ's charater limit.)
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Date: 2008-12-24 05:53 pm (UTC)The Church has a responsibility to both protect the World and keep humanity from destroying himself.
There is a specific plan and design. Men are men. Women are women. Men should follow the natural order and act according to male nature, women according to female nature. Failure to do so invites self-destruction and the destruction of God's Creation.
In the modern world, there are those who discuss gender identity and gender politics, wanting to liberate themselves from what God has intended and instead claim the freedom to express their gender identity and gender preference alike by their own terms. This goes against God and his Works.
Even as we acknowledge the dangers of environmental destruction, we must also acknowledge the dangers of spiritual environmental destruction. We must acknowledge that the world and creation are endangered by the immoral choices that those who would confuse gender and God's intent are making in the name of a freedom they do not actually possess.
God gave us marriage. There is no marriage without God. And God defined it as being between a man and a woman. Christ affirmed that. And that's all there is to say.
We are created in the image of God, with an intent on God's part enbodied in that creation. To change that image or pervert that intent is to desecrate God's work and a failure to affirm what God has done.
(Analysis to follow. I'm working against LJ's charater limit.)