The Pope is busy pushing the environmental dogma and something called synodality instead of Jesus Christ, and even the catholic bishops here seem to be embracing the same psychological gobblygook instead of talking about loving Jesus and serving him by doing the duties of one's daily life and caring for one's family.
Why is this important? Because outside of the trendier parts of Makati with the elites trying to mimic the worst trends from the USA, the dirty little secret is that Filipinos still revere the family: This is partly because they are Catholic, but also because of Confucian ethics still influences Asian culture.
People in different cultures think differently:
So when I listened to this nice liberal lady on JP's podcast, she made a remark that assumed conservatives were busy bodies who wanted to control sex in women and gays presumably because they hate women and gays.
Uh, no. you are missing the point. We see reality differently.
Rules of religion and common law are not made up according to the fad of the day, but based on thousands of years of human experience on what makes a healthy society.
Catholicism (and Islam, and Hinduism, and Confucian ethics) see the world differently: All of these cultures assume that the basis of a stable society is not the isolated individual but the family: And that a person is happiest where families are strong.
Since the Pope is busy with his psychobabble and green policies that will make poverty worse, who will defend Catholic teachings?
The Lord has a sense of humor and uses the least likely people to do so.
Enter Harrison Bunker Butker
The Chiefs kicker, a devout Catholic, expressed several controversial opinions during his speech, including strong support for traditional family values, none of which fall in line with the NFL's standard behavioral code upheld by teams filled with woman beaters, child abusers, drunk drivers, and drug traffickers.
the libertarian lawyer behind Instapundit (not a Christian as far as I know), notes that a mayor doxxed him from an official city website. Well, must stay popular by supporting the trendier than thou folk.
But that pesky first Amendment got in his way: the mayor apologized, sort of, but that might not have removed the damage done.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has weighed in, criticizing the city’s action, calling the mayor’s apology inadequate, and threatening to employ civil rights law:
“I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion.”
Reynolds then goes on to add:
Well, this is a tempest in a teacup, really.
But I think it’s also a harbinger.
Over the past 50+ years, traditional ideas, like Butker’s, about marriage, child-rearing, and gender roles have been marginalized, in favor of those the put much less emphasis on, well, marriage, child-rearing, and traditional views about gender roles.
Reynolds then points to the population explosion (Ehrlich, echoing Malthus of course) that started deliberately to destroy the idea of a family.
this was helped by easy divorce (so women held jobs in case they were dumped) and don't forget economic factors that made two incomes necessary to support a family, while making part time work not an option for most women.
read the whole thing.
This will probably blow over, of course: but like the little boy who cried the king had no clothes, sometimes the truth is so obvious that others will get the courage to say: You know, I think that too...
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