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In reply to the discussion: Catholics hear anti-Obama letter in church [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)to trust that they are NOT being political? Doesn't the fact that they avoid certain kinds of open discussion prove that they ARE being political?
Specific memes corelate with specific demographics which corelate to specific, PREDICTABLE, voting patterns. I realize that none of that is cause and effect, but it IS strong corelation.
If ALL sides/moral-reasoning in a question are not presented and the church's moral position extracted from that empirically WHOLE question, if ONLY one side is presented, ONLY one conclusion, why should we consider that anything other than, at minimum, prejudice, prejudice that requires power to sustain it against the actual truth, power which inevitably and intrinsically has political factors?
If (the rhetorical) you believe you have THE Truth, why would that Truth not stand up to an honest open and full discussion of the WHOLE empirical issue, all sides of it? Doesn't belief in the Truth mean that you know that Truth will withstand ANY error in the discourse? Wouldn't you want to present right AND wrong BECAUSE that reveals THE Truth that you believe you apprehend? Doesn't avoiding the WHOLE (both, any, all sides of a) question prove that you suspect that what you claim is THE Truth will not sustain itself???? . . . so what you really want is power to maintain and defend something that you apparently do not REALLY believe is True in the first place. . . and power IS political in nature.