Vaticaanstad @ Get Real “appels met peren vergelijken”
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011Gisteren tijdens de uitzending (Get Real) sloot ik het Research Item met een “qoute” van de paus die ik niet voor me had liggen. Het kwam er op neer dat homofilie gevaarlijker zou zijn dan de opwarming van de aarde. Ik zat er niet ver naast! In zijn nieuwjaarstoespraak maakt hij een vergelijking tussen de opwarming van de aarde en het implementeren van “anti-discriminerende” wetten, zoals bijvoorbeeld de same-sex marriages. Ik wil er niet al te veel woorden aan vuil maken, zijn woorden zijn al smerig genoeg! Lees hier de quote en laat weten wat jij van deze vergelijking vindt!
Ladies and Gentlemen, to this point I have alluded only to a few aspects of the problem of the environment. Yet the causes of the situation which is now evident to everyone are of the moral order, and the question must be faced within the framework of a great programme of education aimed at promoting an effective change of thinking and at creating new lifestyles. The community of believers can and wants to take part in this, but, for it to do so, its public role must be recognized. Sadly, in certain countries, mainly in the West, one increasingly encounters in political and cultural circles, as well in the media, scarce respect and at times hostility, if not scorn, directed towards religion and towards Christianity in particular. It is clear that if relativism is considered an essential element of democracy, one risks viewing secularity solely in the sense of excluding or, more precisely, denying the social importance of religion. But such an approach creates confrontation and division, disturbs peace, harms human ecology and, by rejecting in principle approaches other than its own, finishes in a dead end. There is thus an urgent need to delineate a positive and open secularity which, grounded in the just autonomy of the temporal order and the spiritual order, can foster healthy cooperation and a spirit of shared responsibility. Here I think of Europe, which, now that the Lisbon Treaty has taken effect, has entered a new phase in its process of integration, a process which the Holy See will continue to follow with close attention. Noting with satisfaction that the Treaty provides for the European Union to maintain an “open, transparent and regular” dialogue with the Churches (Art. 17), I express my hope that in building its future, Europe will always draw upon the wellsprings of its Christian identity. As I said during my Apostolic Visit last September to the Czech Republic, Europe has an irreplaceable role to play “for the formation of the conscience of each generation and the promotion of a basic ethical consensus that serves every person who calls this continent ‘home’ ” (Meeting with Political and Civil Authorities and with the Diplomatic Corps,, 26 September 2009).
Bron (video + transcript):
nieuwjaarstoespraak paus Benedictus XVI
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