As a friend of mine once said of Madonna: “Under all that voluptuous flesh is the soul of an accountant.’įor the same reason, contraception is, in the final analysis, an attempt to treat a thing (sexual pleasure) as more important than persons (both the person you are having sex with and the children who are naturally expected of such a union).īut when it comes to reducing persons to things in war it’s a whole ‘nother thing.Ĭatholic Just War doctrine is ordered first and foremost to the fact that Jesus wasn’t kidding when he said “Love your enemies.” By “enemies” Jesus meant “enemies,” not “charming rogues that, gosh darn it, you kinda like even though they are a bit mistaken.” He meant “people you feel strongly tempted to hate and fear.” Those people.īecause Jesus commanded us to love our enemies, the Church’s Just War teaching is specially designed to make it as hard as possible to go to war.
Much of our sexual culture is ordered toward making people treat each other as things, as well as inviting others to treat us as things. He wants an experience for which a woman happens to be the necessary apparatus. Lewis observed, the lustful man does not want a woman. Pornography is wrong because it reduces people to objects.
When people stop being persons and become things to use, we are treating them with contempt and are a million miles from the love of Christ.Ĭonservative Catholics get this when it comes to the Church’s teaching on sexuality. Theft exalts a thing above the person who owns it. Murder reduces persons to things called corpses.
So idolatry is treating a think like the persons of the Trinity.
Indeed, one very serviceable definition of sin is “Treating persons like things and things like persons. is not hate, according to Pope John Paul II.
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