During the recent synod of bishops, called forth by Pope Francis to discuss about the Familial values and cultural shifts and how to effectively guide the church through the turbulent times, sparked a lot of controversy among the global community. The Pope was quoted saying "who am i to judge them?" regarding gays and homosexuals, in many news media. However, the fact of the matter as I deduced from just a little research into the topic, is that the quote was used out of context so as to feed the media and gay lobbyist needs to attack the Catholic faith and Christians as a whole. The Pope’s original words as per the news release by the BBC and confirmed by the Vatican was "If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge them?" This quote was made regarding the ordained men of God such as priests who had homosexual tendencies. Because, I belong to the youthful and spiritually immature and ordinary laity, I am not going to comment on anything about what authentic catholic faith should be. However, I am going to express my opinion about Homosexuals and the Homosexual Act.
I will be using the Bible as my primary source of moral guidance as all Catholics and Christians are expected to. When a Christian hears about anything even remotely related to homosexuality, the first thing that comes to his/her mind would be the old testament reference from the book of Leviticus 18:22, which says that "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." and Leviticus 20:13 “"If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them." I am not expert on this topic but, the church as whole emphasizes the inerrancy of the bible even if not everyone agrees on the historic accuracy of the recorded events.
However, many people are ignorant and aren’t aware of the new testament references to the act of homosexuality. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God." Romans 1:26-28, says that "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."
It doesn’t really take a biblical scholar to interpret the meaning of the verses quoted above. Any Christian can discern from what is said in the bible, that the homosexual act is an abomination and one acquires death by doing so. But, St. Paul says in his letter to the Romans 2:1-3 that “while not everyone sins so crudely, everyone violates standards they consider just” Since God is such a perfect being that any sin, no matter how small or big it is, should be the same before his eyes.
From the book of Genesis we can learn that God, the most Holy trinity made man in their image. Saint Augustine reminds us, “If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.” I once read a post on Facebook from chastity.com that “There are few better tests for whether or not someone lives a life in submission to God than what he or she does with their sexuality. Sex is such a powerful and meaningful desire that to give it up and obey God in that area is a true sign of worship.”
Personally, I have nothing against people with homosexual inclinations, but I don’t want to conform with sins that they commit by acting on the homosexual inclinations. I know it is hard for many to understand the fact that love is not equivalent to sex and how much sex you have in your life doesn’t equate to how much love you have for each other. I just want to encourage my fellow brothers and sisters to realize that being a Christian and moreover a catholic is never an easy thing to do and it will never be. But we need to proud and grateful parts of the body of Christ, the church, and “be the church that moves the world rather than one that moves with the world” as the famous theologian G.K Chesterton once said.
I think as Christians we need to first realize the blessing that we have and realize that as Christians we are essentially called to be Christ’s followers, which means we have to take up his cross and suffer a lot. I do understand that being true to faith isn’t always the most comfortable thing in today’s society where everyone is so sensitive to truth and Christians are always slandered for everything that we believe in. As any ethicists would agree, disagreements between people about something isn’t proof of the nonexistence of an objective truth. We as sons and daughters of God and followers of His son Jesus Christ, our savior, we are called to live a righteous life in Him. We will be made perfect through him and not our deeds. It is His Grace that saves us. Since, St. Paul says “the wage of sin is death” let’s all chose eternal life in God than damnation through sin.
Monday, October 27, 2014
my lait view
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Feminism? or Female dominance? or just another western cultural invasion gone wrong?
First of all this is a disclaimer that the article you are about to read is not inviting any attention or quarrel from anyone regarding this matter and any emotional or mental offenses acquired by the audience is not of concern or responsibility to the author. Don't read if you don't want to and no one is forcing you to. if you want to comment, do so amongst your friends and family. Any constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated. cynical morons are not welcome and advised to stay away from engaging in useless debates as, this is the authors personal opinion that may or may not reflect the societies perspectives on such matters. All things said and done, Have a wonderful life.
So Feminism, that is what I want to discuss about in this article. The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes is deemed the reason behind feminism. Using common sense one can think that his emerged during the times when industries were budding up and women actually started to be part of the non domestic workforce. Yeah, I do agree that times were hard back then for women especially when the men were off at war or something else, and not taking care of the households or their children properly. This was also the time when the traditions and morals were beginning to devolve. Domestic violence was up until then not even a concept because that was normal and just a part of life for women and men. The world population was not as high as we have today. This doesn't mean that domestic violence is a good thing, in fact it is awful and incredible disrespectful but i don't know why people talk about it as if every Indian household is a breeding ground for it.
There was not much opportunity for people to be educated or mass media to promote awareness. People just were beginning to realize the perks of having independent and self governed political bodies rather than kingdoms and empires. However to make these all possible everyone had to have the right to opinionate themselves and women were part of this "everyone". But then again psychologically speaking women are more aggressive and emotionally unstable than men and a bit too irrational at times. This is what might have lead to the emergence now popular open relationships, sleeping around to empower the feminine and find the perfect match and other insanely ironic stupid practices.
These so called new generation feminists are not practicing what they preach, rather what they are showcasing is a desire to actually enforce a female dominance instead of a feminine and masculine equality. They ask for equal treatment but set the social standards as the males being responsible for chivalry and knightly behavior meanwhile women are encouraged to act like their male counterparts or absolute B*****s rather than the ladies they are meant to be. Feminism was not intended i think, to be a platform for women to do everything that they wanted to do but to establish a standard for everyone to follow in case of fundamental and individual rights.
The so called wave of sleep around feminism started hitting the Indian society along with the rise of metro cities and globalization as well as western education. Indians as far as I have observed since my teenage years, have a nasty tendency of assimilating and practicing every trashy culture as well as barbarity that's being thrown up or excreted by the western society and making that the pop trend. I mean come on fellow Indians we are not in the 1700s any more to be fascinated by the shiny skin and pale nature of the westerners. You my brothers and sisters have a very beautiful, very historic, very ethical, very holistic set of customs, traditions and social norms that have fascinated countless historians and philosophers. Yet we consider or social ethics and morals as uncivilized and primitive because some foreigners think so? How intelligent are we?
I mean we are proud to call ourselves the smartest and highly talented group of people on this planet yet we let some white trash guide us in our morals and ethics. I mean seriously have you not learned anything from the fall of all those F***ing so called superpowers and the delayed but imminent fall of some of the UN top countries which i know you who which ones I a referring to without even mentionig. So what i ask you my brothers and sisters is try to make patches to the existing culture rather than chase a culture that has proven multiple times to have failed miserably in being what it promised to be.
I grew up and I still am proud to be part of a culture that regards women as mothers and sisters and goddesses rather than B*****s or H**s or mere friends with benefits. What i have realized over the years is that no man wants to marry a woman who has been around and used up and same goes with women not wanting men who have been fooling around. Why do we have these double standards? Bad boys/girls for dating and having fun with but then when it comes to serious commitments and marriage we all want that virgin of virgins/safe man. Then at the end all blame goes to the men. If the wife cheats its the man's fault, if the man cheats its still his fault, if the woman isn't chaste it was the man's fault, if the man isn't chaste its still his fault, if the man is well mannered and decent its his fault, if the man is too outgoing and play boyish its still his fault, if a girl becomes a s**t its the guys' fault. So unrealistic double standard. Women are advised to not trust men and men advised to trust women. I say if you want equality for real you gotta lose the double standards. You either a hoe or loyal lady. There is no loyal hoe. same with guys, you either a gentle man or a player.
Any one can be stupid and irrational but it takes real character to be wise and rational in life. It upto you and you alone to chose what you want to be and what you can be. Don't let the society or anyone else chose it for you.
My sisters please stop this false propaganda that we as men are the only ones guilty of objectifying you when the truth is you yourselves are doing a majority role in it either knowingly or unknowingly. Just think about it for at least a minute. Think about the logic and please do comment. I would love to know everyone's perspectives on this issue and further uplift my awareness as well. Thank you for your time and brain power spent on this article. Again I say that this is not targeted at offending or hurting anyone.
So Feminism, that is what I want to discuss about in this article. The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes is deemed the reason behind feminism. Using common sense one can think that his emerged during the times when industries were budding up and women actually started to be part of the non domestic workforce. Yeah, I do agree that times were hard back then for women especially when the men were off at war or something else, and not taking care of the households or their children properly. This was also the time when the traditions and morals were beginning to devolve. Domestic violence was up until then not even a concept because that was normal and just a part of life for women and men. The world population was not as high as we have today. This doesn't mean that domestic violence is a good thing, in fact it is awful and incredible disrespectful but i don't know why people talk about it as if every Indian household is a breeding ground for it.
There was not much opportunity for people to be educated or mass media to promote awareness. People just were beginning to realize the perks of having independent and self governed political bodies rather than kingdoms and empires. However to make these all possible everyone had to have the right to opinionate themselves and women were part of this "everyone". But then again psychologically speaking women are more aggressive and emotionally unstable than men and a bit too irrational at times. This is what might have lead to the emergence now popular open relationships, sleeping around to empower the feminine and find the perfect match and other insanely ironic stupid practices.
These so called new generation feminists are not practicing what they preach, rather what they are showcasing is a desire to actually enforce a female dominance instead of a feminine and masculine equality. They ask for equal treatment but set the social standards as the males being responsible for chivalry and knightly behavior meanwhile women are encouraged to act like their male counterparts or absolute B*****s rather than the ladies they are meant to be. Feminism was not intended i think, to be a platform for women to do everything that they wanted to do but to establish a standard for everyone to follow in case of fundamental and individual rights.
The so called wave of sleep around feminism started hitting the Indian society along with the rise of metro cities and globalization as well as western education. Indians as far as I have observed since my teenage years, have a nasty tendency of assimilating and practicing every trashy culture as well as barbarity that's being thrown up or excreted by the western society and making that the pop trend. I mean come on fellow Indians we are not in the 1700s any more to be fascinated by the shiny skin and pale nature of the westerners. You my brothers and sisters have a very beautiful, very historic, very ethical, very holistic set of customs, traditions and social norms that have fascinated countless historians and philosophers. Yet we consider or social ethics and morals as uncivilized and primitive because some foreigners think so? How intelligent are we?
I mean we are proud to call ourselves the smartest and highly talented group of people on this planet yet we let some white trash guide us in our morals and ethics. I mean seriously have you not learned anything from the fall of all those F***ing so called superpowers and the delayed but imminent fall of some of the UN top countries which i know you who which ones I a referring to without even mentionig. So what i ask you my brothers and sisters is try to make patches to the existing culture rather than chase a culture that has proven multiple times to have failed miserably in being what it promised to be.
I grew up and I still am proud to be part of a culture that regards women as mothers and sisters and goddesses rather than B*****s or H**s or mere friends with benefits. What i have realized over the years is that no man wants to marry a woman who has been around and used up and same goes with women not wanting men who have been fooling around. Why do we have these double standards? Bad boys/girls for dating and having fun with but then when it comes to serious commitments and marriage we all want that virgin of virgins/safe man. Then at the end all blame goes to the men. If the wife cheats its the man's fault, if the man cheats its still his fault, if the woman isn't chaste it was the man's fault, if the man isn't chaste its still his fault, if the man is well mannered and decent its his fault, if the man is too outgoing and play boyish its still his fault, if a girl becomes a s**t its the guys' fault. So unrealistic double standard. Women are advised to not trust men and men advised to trust women. I say if you want equality for real you gotta lose the double standards. You either a hoe or loyal lady. There is no loyal hoe. same with guys, you either a gentle man or a player.
Any one can be stupid and irrational but it takes real character to be wise and rational in life. It upto you and you alone to chose what you want to be and what you can be. Don't let the society or anyone else chose it for you.
My sisters please stop this false propaganda that we as men are the only ones guilty of objectifying you when the truth is you yourselves are doing a majority role in it either knowingly or unknowingly. Just think about it for at least a minute. Think about the logic and please do comment. I would love to know everyone's perspectives on this issue and further uplift my awareness as well. Thank you for your time and brain power spent on this article. Again I say that this is not targeted at offending or hurting anyone.
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