St. Augustine said that an unjust law is no law at all.
Does this hold true for religious law? When a police officer breaks a law to uphold a law in essence what you have is hypocrisy. Should not religious leaders be held to this same esteem?
The "commandment" thou shalt not kill is part of the basis of the religious law that governs christianity, and in this instance my focus is on the catholic denomination of chrisitianity.
First let us define to "kill" or death. Every concept has multiple meanings or insights. Death can be the pysical departure of the spirit from the mortal body, but it can also have a deeper meaning, and that is that you can also have a spiritual death. This is the reason that people get baptised. Symbolically you are letting your old self die and being re-made.
When a catholic priest molests a child they are breaking their own religious law, and are the cause of a childs spiritual death. They then take it further by sweeping it under the rug, and acting as if nothing is wrong.
Then the same group will tell you that it is wrong to have an abortion, and will go as far as to stand outside of a clinic, holding signs calling other people killers.
This is the pot calling the kettle black.
They are the killers, and then they throw a search party.
(this piece is not meant to insight a pro life pro choice discussion.. i only use that as an example of their hypocrisy)
Does this hold true for religious law? When a police officer breaks a law to uphold a law in essence what you have is hypocrisy. Should not religious leaders be held to this same esteem?
The "commandment" thou shalt not kill is part of the basis of the religious law that governs christianity, and in this instance my focus is on the catholic denomination of chrisitianity.
First let us define to "kill" or death. Every concept has multiple meanings or insights. Death can be the pysical departure of the spirit from the mortal body, but it can also have a deeper meaning, and that is that you can also have a spiritual death. This is the reason that people get baptised. Symbolically you are letting your old self die and being re-made.
When a catholic priest molests a child they are breaking their own religious law, and are the cause of a childs spiritual death. They then take it further by sweeping it under the rug, and acting as if nothing is wrong.
Then the same group will tell you that it is wrong to have an abortion, and will go as far as to stand outside of a clinic, holding signs calling other people killers.
This is the pot calling the kettle black.
They are the killers, and then they throw a search party.
(this piece is not meant to insight a pro life pro choice discussion.. i only use that as an example of their hypocrisy)