Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I don’t know which is worse, the jettisoning of classical anthropology (with its distribution of faculties, passions and appetites) for a muddled nominalism, or univocally projecting emotion upon God so that He could either “get angry” like a man does or could “not sin” in that anger, as if it were possible for Him to sin because of an emotional outburst.
Ok, they’re both worse.
Unreasonable patience. The kind that allows pro-death catholic politicians to receive communion without having renounced their allegience to abortion on demand. Evil from the silence?
Not hard to imagine 49 years of killing innocent children with the help of Catholic voters.
If Bishops and Priests got angry towards Catholic politicians who refused to break from the culture of death just maybe other Catholics wouldn’t of thought it was ok to support death on demand and cast their votes for these so-called Catholics in public service.
Rightious anger a myth Rev. Deberny?
Tell that to the 64 million dead children.
According to the left, it is instead the 49 million children that are are a myth. Clearly they were “fetuses.”
(The iniquitous label that causes the unreasonable patience.)
There is a dispute that goes back to Plato and Aristotle about whether anger can be righteous. Aristotle argues for an “irascible appetite”, regulated by reason, which line of thinking Aquinas and Catholic Tradition have always followed. Plato regards any “disturbance of the soul” by strong emotion as something the wise man should avoid and many Eastern Fathers and Orthodox moral theology seem to follow that line. We may pursue and punish the wicked but (somehow) dispassionately.
I believe the idea is that knee jerk anger is to be avoided since it happens before or without examination of why one is angry.
If, after proper consideration, one should be angry, then that is the proper type of anger.
I’m still learning, so I may have this slightly off base.
Again, there is a time when what passes for Christian virtue is merely cowardice with a Jesus mask. An excuse to avoid standing up to evil, wrapped in the appropriate pages taken from Scripture.
Indeed. As we see when Jesus is tempted in the desert, Satan can certainly quote Scripture!