[NYer]

Mark Shea is senior content editor for CatholicExchange.com.

[NYer]

Ping!

[PROCON]

Great Post.

should seek pleasure in this world, because this is all there is,

As a former card carrying atheist, this was so true of me.

I thank the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ for showing me how foolish I was!

[Jaysun]

Consequently, they inevitably taught that the human person:

is not in the image of God because God does not exist.

The "human person" is not made in the image of God. Man is made in the image of God, and woman in the image of man. Every creature on earth gives of itself for another creature (even women) except for the man and his selfish desires. This isn't to say that all of man's desires are good and condoned, just that men and men alone are created in the image of God.

It's a place of responsibility, authority, leadership, and courage. I'm certain that our society has been feminized enough so that most will find what I said appalling and so very unfair. That doesn't make it any less true. And if you believe that life is fair you should seek whoever told you that and slap them in the face. It's a lie, it's not the natural order of things.

So flame away, if you must.

[Salvation]

Guidelines to living! What a great list!

• The human person is in the image of God.

• The human person comes from God and is made for union with God.

• The depth of Christ’s power to save from sin is most fully displayed in Mary, so we may know he holds that same power to save us, no matter how grave our sin.

• The human person is the product of fathomless divine love.

• Sin, though real, is neither the foundational nor the final truth about Man. Jesus Christ is.

• The human person is defined by love, not enmity.

• The human person is called to love God and neighbor.

• The human person is a reflection of the reason, order and love of God himself.

• The human person finds his life in losing it and receiving the love of God.

• The human person only becomes more human through love, mercy and humility.

• The human person grows in love by caring for the “least of these” since they are precious to Christ, who humbled himself to be born in a stable.

• The human person should seek self-donating love here on earth and a reward in heaven, because this life is not all there is.

• It is humble for us to think ourselves “made in God’s image” because that is what we are. The place for humility is when we recognize our need of grace.

• Since God is the Lord of nature, we are merely stewards of creation. We find ourselves, not by worshipping nature or ourselves, but by worshipping God who made and redeemed us through Jesus Christ.

[padre35]

JPII was a seminal thinker.

let me read this later.

That little girl is adorable! :)