Brothah, Ah Have Seeeeeen The Laaaahht!!!
Posted by: tony on 10/17/2007 11:31 PM
Updated by: tony on 10/17/2007 11:31 PM
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Expires: 11/17/2007 12:00 AM
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I have been a reader of Mark Shea at Catholic and Enjoying It for quite some time now. I enjoy his no-nonsense approach to apologetics, and his "broken window" analogy with regards to purgatory is a mainstay in my apologetics arsenal.
However, due to the unending barrage of snarky posts from him regarding torture, I almost unsubscribed from his feed and just stopped reading him. Every other post was criticizing some (usually Republican) politician with regard to the torture of terrorists for the gaining of valuable information to save lives.
I have been really struggling with this, because it's one thing to lay down my life for my faith, but it's another to lay down the lives of my loved ones and fellow Americans for my faith.
But every so often, someone will say just the right thing that will make you realize that you have been looking at this all wrong.
So instead of this:
Why does our choice have to be between the Rubber Hose Party and the Sticking Scissors in Baby's Heads Party?
Or this:
...the allegedly Faithful Conservative American Catholic laity has developed a sickness in the soul...
Or maybe this:
If you feel an overwhelming need to, yet again, explain why I'm wrong about torture, write it in an email addressed to yourself and hit SEND. That will save me the trouble of deleting it from my combox and, if you try it twice, banning you.
He wrote this:
What lies at the heart of all consequentialist appeals to do grave evil for the greater good is, ultimately, a refusal to trust that God knows what he is talking about.
Bravo.
This is just the way I needed to hear it. What profiteth a man if he saves his life but loses his very soul. If I can't trust God to do what's best for myself and my loved one (even the country), even if I can't understand it myself, then I have a much longer faith journey than I'd imagined.
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