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To: Woebama

....all you need is love

(all together now)

dum-dah-dah-de-dah

....all you need is love

dum-dah-dah-de=dah

(compare the Pope who came of age in Communist Poland vs. the one who did the same in current day Socialist Germany)


24 posted on 07/07/2009 8:33:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
You didn't even read the encyclical, did you? Read paragraph 3 by itself, and it becomes very clear that he's no John Lennon:

Through this close link with truth, charity can be recognized as an authentic expression of humanity and as an element of fundamental importance in human relations, including those of a public nature. Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word “love” is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. In the truth, charity reflects the personal yet public dimension of faith in the God of the Bible, who is both Agápe and Lógos: Charity and Truth, Love and Word.

25 posted on 07/07/2009 8:35:48 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
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