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To: Quix
ADVOCATING A GREATER DEGREE OF GLOBAL CONTROL

He is not arguing for "global control!" He is arguing for the Christian Spirit as having a fruitful role to play in the working out of human society.

526 posted on 08/24/2009 1:11:15 PM PDT by betty boop (Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is. —Pope Benedict XVI)
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To: betty boop
He is arguing for the Christian Spirit as having a fruitful role to play in the working out of human society.

If that were all he was arguing for, no Christian should have a problem with it.

But the pope has gone far beyond this "Christian spirit."

What is this global authority with the power of enforcement? Specifically.

532 posted on 08/24/2009 1:23:25 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: betty boop

I think I’ll have to ponder a good long time before I can understand you writing those words.


560 posted on 08/24/2009 4:34:07 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: betty boop

>>> He is not arguing for “global control!” He is arguing for the Christian Spirit as having a fruitful role to play in the working out of human society. <<<

Actually, I think he’s arguing for BOTH. What worries me is that he doesn’t notice the glaring contradictions between the two.

As for “the working out of human society,” _Caritas_ is more explicit than that. It’s more of a Development — an “integral” and “authentic” human development — towards some future Fraternity or Unity of the peoples of the earth.
What that means in terms of Christian doctrine, I haven’t the foggiest idea. That’s why I brought up Teilhard de Chardin in a previous post. Do you think that Teilhardism may in part help us understand the significance of all this jargon in _Caritas_?


570 posted on 08/24/2009 5:04:43 PM PDT by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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