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To: BipolarBob
God gave me free will. I plan on using it. I don't plan on denying it to someone in desperate circumstances on what to do with their life. I hope they make good ones with Gods help.

Similar to how faith without works is dead, reason and free will without morality is also dead.

Talk to 500 people of differing and disparate backgrounds and you'll probably get about 500 different approaches to a particular moral issue. Some will be very moral. Most will be in the middle. And some will be very immoral, hateful, and destructive.

Yes, God gave us reason, but reason is a means to reaching God's ends, not for its own supremacy.

To paraphrase Fr. Corapi, freedom is not doing whatever you want. Freedom is doing whatever we want within the context of what is moral according to God's will.

Freedom as we describe it, "Doing whatever we want" is not freedom. It is licentiousness. It is vice. And ultimately, it is slavery to sin.
76 posted on 10/21/2006 8:36:27 AM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: Conservative til I die
"Freedom as we describe it, "Doing whatever we want" is not freedom. It is licentiousness. It is vice. And ultimately, it is slavery to sin."

Now you are misrepresenting my words and intent. I did not say do whatever we want. I am not in disagreement with Fr. Corapis statement. I do not consider contraception a form of sin and you do. This will not change.

77 posted on 10/21/2006 8:46:01 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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