tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post2583261477203817944..comments2023-11-15T07:14:06.265+00:00Comments on Catholic Action UK: GCSE in political correctnessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post-71722547531159114142009-02-03T21:21:00.000+00:002009-02-03T21:21:00.000+00:00Our faith isn't about closing minds, but I believe...Our faith isn't about closing minds, but I believe we have the BEST and only answers to all these issues, and that people who disagree (on issues like contraception, homosexuality, euthanasia, the family, etc.) are wrong, and should not be listened to, and rightly so.<BR/><BR/>We're the only church with highly coherent, philosophically reasoned, and theologically sound teaching on these matters. In the protestant churches in the UK - whatever flavour - morality is just a religious form of relativism to them, based on 'holy books' (the 'bible-believing' sort) and 'spirituality' (a crypto-new-age kind), for there's little, if no doctrine.<BR/><BR/>If the exam includes 'religion and relationships', then the Personalism taught by both our current Holy Father and his predecessor, are second to none, as are our teachings on the family, parenting, sexual ethics, etc., aren't they?<BR/><BR/>Well, I'd give the sport a miss, but leisure? Josef Pieper's book on the subject is truly amazing. In fact, I'd say that it's about time these subjects were integrated into religious education, just to show kids how relevant REAL religious education (an integrated catechesis) is to life!<BR/><BR/>For me, the real problem is, that all our Catholic answers - which have stood the test of time, and are true - would never be accepted as valid in the exam, and so how ever well argued by any student, however brilliant (even Apolonio Latar III!), answering those questions using our answers would fail the exam because they're not the right answers 'they' want to hear: the politically correct ones.<BR/>That is, they'd claim balance and unbiased marking, based in 'reason', but it'd be judged by relativistic standards, and ours accused of 'dogma' (as if there's isn't!).<BR/><BR/>So, the exam isn't wrong, it's the government's own extreme prejudice and ideological biases built into the exam which will be seen as the only correct answers to these questions, and which will be the real problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com