Wednesday 23 September 2015

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 rests upon economic priorities upon profit, which have overwhelmed moral essentials in taking responsible care of the environment and creation. An additional admonishment on such economic view asks politicians to concentrate upon their core vocation, which is all round common good. Politicians must not concern themselves too much in matters bringing obscene profits from industries in extraction.

There are five matters considered non-negotiable by Catholics. These are abortion, same sex marriage, euthanasia, human cloning, and stem cell research. These five matters are parallel to those forwarded by social conservative Republican Party. A telling issues here is that degradation of the environment, war and poverty do not feature. Another one commonly left out is systemic sin although an apostolic exhortation calls for its consideration and the Church has called for its adoption for a long time.

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.

Republicans naturally hold opposite opinions to those taken by Democrats. Catholic Republicans deny and downplay teachings in social aspects. Democrats complicate issues between personal matters and private matters. Again, they demand of governments to leave their private affairs alone. Having an abortion could constitute personal affairs however it is not private. It constitutes game rigging to enforce this. If a matter affects or concerns two people, it stays private no more.

Furthermore, certain laws stop individuals from carrying out certain activities on their bodies. It is illegal to take illicit drugs. Drinking legal alcoholic drinks prior to driving is illegal too. As such, confusion is lamentable as it is common with both Democratic Catholics and Republic Catholics revealing this.

It is noteworthy and bizarre that both political groups deviate away from Church teaching precisely the same way. This is through evoking libertarian exemption. Pro-choice women do not want anyone pushing them about their bodies. Pro-business Republicans ask everyone to stay away from their corporation.




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