instruere...inlustrare...delectare Disputations

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I can't contend the following

[without someone to tend against.]

A lot of the contention within the Church in the United States is due to differences of opinion regarding the relative importance of issues.

If, for example, two people choose different priorities from this list:
  • You can go to hell for supporting abortion.
  • You can go to hell for reasons other than supporting abortion.
  • Many Catholics seem to forget that you can go to hell for supporting abortion.
  • Many Catholics seem to forget that you can go to hell for reasons other than supporting abortion.
Then their discussions on politics are likely to be contentious.

Things can get particularly bad if one regards the other's priority as false, and even worse if one regards the other's as false but doesn't admit it.

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