A couple of points:
- This is a really interesting line of argument that one could use with an apologist for sodomite unions. It points out in a novel fashion that there are some things that are simply axiomatic and attempts to change the definition to facilitate "feelings" have a rippling effect. (Not that leftists who support ludicrous innovations like the ability of two men or two women being "married" would be able to grasp it...)
- When you look at it, this is just an outgrowth of the modernistic philosophy of "vital immanence" so eloquently discussed by St Pius X in his Encyclical Letter Pascendi. For those not familiar, "vital immanence" is the idea where religion arises purely from within man himself, deriving all its credibility and force from man's own personal experience as its source. Religion essentially arises from an inner sentiment in the heart of man, and this sentiment is not only where the modernists locate faith, it is also where they locate revelation itself. Further, this is also the origin of the divine reality itself, God, for God is the object and the giver of revelation; the revelation of God consists in that religious sentiment, God revealing and God revealed. Thus, in a sense, man himself turns out to be the creator of religion, of religious truth, of God Himself, rather than being the discoverer of it all.
Rom 1:26-32. Abandon God and the current popular moral desert is the natural outcome.
To: markomalley
From the “shop-keeper’s” mouth:
:: Equality means that like things are treated similarly ::
2 posted on
04/09/2015 5:14:05 AM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: markomalley
3 posted on
04/09/2015 6:42:49 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us)
To: markomalley
4 posted on
04/09/2015 6:53:22 AM PDT by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: markomalley
If people are conditioned to rely on the civil authorities to define marriage for them, then a certain % will just always accept anything the state puts forth as marriage. After all, to the state in the modern era all it has ever been is a civil contract that can be broken and resumed with the state’s permission and between any parties the state currently allows for.
FReegards
5 posted on
04/09/2015 6:57:03 AM PDT by
Ransomed
To: markomalley
I have used this type of argument before. For example, if I decided that I consider myself to be John Wayne, and dress like John Wayne, and adopt John Wayne's characteristic walk and speech pattern, will I be accepted as John Wayne, or will I be treated like a loon? However, if I decided I am really a woman and started wearing a dress, I would meet with total acceptance.
All forms of insanity are equal, but homosexual and gender insanity are more equal than others.
7 posted on
04/09/2015 7:50:53 AM PDT by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: markomalley
Yes, you have a right to happiness, but that does not include a right to own this without paying for it. And his whole argument pops like a balloon.
We do not have a right to happiness. We have a right to pursue happiness.
Big difference.
8 posted on
04/09/2015 8:09:13 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: markomalley
Like one pastor said, “We don’t break God’s commands, we break ourselves against them”. Along the way, some of these broken sexual deviants will be convicted by the Holy Spirit and see their need of Jesus. He saves “to the uttermost” those who come to God through Him!
“I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you! “ Matt. 21:31
9 posted on
04/09/2015 8:10:39 AM PDT by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: markomalley
Fight Homo-Fascism.
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