RSSThe article points out some of the dangers of taking things too far. However it also kind of flies in the face of some obvious realities. I’ve always seen this subject as a balancing act. One has to balance up the truth that all human life is intrinsically valuable with the reality that cultures / systems perform better when they have solidarity. It can be taken too far in either direction and you end up in error. You start doing violence to the individual in one direction, to your society in the other. I really think people are playing ping pong with this. There’s no wonderful ideology here to be landed on, it’s more about paying respect to these two offsetting principles.
As a sidenote, this person is obviously a Catholic, and I suppose he wouldn’t be complaining so much if everyone was Catholic, just shut-up and worship that guy in Rome already. While I don’t want to have to do that, I do think that one benefit of the 3rd world immigration is that it forces Protestants and Catholics to finally recognise that they are both Christian denominations and they should have been able to find more common ground over the years than they did. I am a Protestant, but my view is that some good stuff got thrown out, and there has been a failure by Protestants to recognise some of the things the Catholics had in their culture which were positive and it was a huge loss. At the same time – the doctrinal aspects of the reformation, and a returning to emphasise the work of Jesus over “the Church” and it’s “god on earth” was required. But I’ve still got more in common with those people than with other religions, so….