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    An Abusive Morality

    Thinking about the issues of sexual morality I think I have come to something of a dialectical synthesis. That is that I think Christianity is largely correct to restrict the sexual act to marriage. A stable civilization begins with stable families and it is clear to me that severing the sexual...
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    I never thought I'd see the day.

    There's more. The 24th of June is also the Nativity of John the Baptist.
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    I never thought I'd see the day.

    It just so happened that Roe's overturning coincided with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Take from that what you will.
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    An Abusive Morality

    My upbringing was strict by modern secular standards, but it wasn't exceptionally puritanical either. The difference between me and other most other Catholic kids was that I was introspective enough to actually look at Catholic teaching and realize its implications. That anything less than...
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    An Abusive Morality

    Sex! Yes, we're going there. Having put religion on a bit of a back burner, I have started to reflect on my religious upbringing. Looking back, I’ve come to realize that a great deal of the psychological and spiritual awfulness I’ve endured since adolescence is a direct consequence of Catholic...
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    Religion in the Middle Ages

    Having recourse to set prayers is really useful. Of course, true prayer assumes that whatever prayer you recite is recited with attention and conviction. I wouldn't take professional criminals as role model Catholics. This should be pretty basic. As someone who has actual experience with the...
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    Vox Populi, Vox Dei

    Truth is not a democracy.
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    Hinduism's Karma And Rebirth Cycle Refuted

    There's a school of thought which believes Earth to be a soul farm controlled by entities called Archons. These entities are sustained by the suffering of earthly beings and so seek to trap as many souls they can get their hands on into an endless cycle of death and rebirth here on Earth. Human...
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    Why would Christians believe in witches?

    It is not inconsistent for a Christian to believe that pagan and occult practices can be efficacious in their material aims. In the Christian view, Satan and his angels do have (an albeit constrained) power to act in the world. Again, under the Christian belief system God permits evil to...
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    A Spiritual Quagmire

    My inner world is a world of conflicting beliefs. On the one hand, there is the desire to be a faithful Catholic holding fast to the sound doctrines of the apostolic faith. On the other hand, there is a growing willingness on my part to consider the possibility that the whole system of ‘sound...
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    Dress to Impress

    It was a triumph of philistinism that was misguided but well intentioned at best and ideologically driven iconoclasm at worst. Anglo-Saxon standards? The Tridentine Mass (from Tridentum, modern day Trento) was the standardized liturgy of the Roman Rite. The English did have the a 'use' called...
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    Dress to Impress

    I appreciate the serious question and my answer will be a bit of a rant but hopefully you (and others reading this thread) may see where I am coming from. It is not so much about what others wear so much as I find dress standards to be emblematic of a trend which I have come to resent with...
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    Dress to Impress

    Jury duty, you get charged with contempt. But as for the café I honestly would not be that surprised if you still got service. The more swanky places may require you to wear a shirt. But give it a few years and even that minimum may disappear. After all you do see the occasional shirtless bogan...
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    Dress to Impress

    I sometimes wonder if perhaps I had lived a past life sometime in the late 19th to the early 20th century, as I've always had a nostalgia for men's clothing of that period. It would explain why I find modern fashions to be slovenly if not repulsive.
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    Dress to Impress

    It's a symptom of my growing contempt for a culture I perceive as fundamentally adolescent. It's a contempt that has been growing within me for a long time. I know. But I don't care what most Australians think. Especially those for whom the F-word consists of about 33% of their active vocabulary.
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    Dress to Impress

    Yeah, nonsense. The idea that a button up shirt, a pair of trousers and a pair of shoes is just beyond the average Australian's/American's price range is a ludicrous assertion. No, the issue is laziness not money. I would hardly judge someone for turning up to the petrol station in work...
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    Dress to Impress

    I specifically stated in my original post that I am not advocating for a return to men wearing suits as daily wear. Although every man should have a suit on hand for formal occasions. What I would like to bring back is a culture of civic pride, where adults and those on their way to becoming...
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    Dress to Impress

    It is possible to dress casually while still being neat. I generally discourage t-shirts for adult men, but if it's clean and free from childish designs a t-shirt can work. With a pair of clean jeans and perhaps a decent watch I wouldn't consider a man in such attire to be slovenly, yet alone a...
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    Dress to Impress

    I was at a café earlier this morning and as I waited for my order I looked around and watched as my fellow citizens went about their day. It was hard not to notice that most of these people were dressed like slobs. I felt vicariously embarrassed for the worst of them, although that feeling soon...
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    Liberal Catholicism & the Falsification of the Magisterium

    My point is that a repudiation of the Church's sexual morality would be a change in doctrine. My contention is that the Church's teaching on what constitutes sexual sin is definitive. The Church cannot change it without repudiating its own authority to teach on morals. Which again, destroys the...
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