tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003329929042238384.post3422957074341934588..comments2023-06-26T04:59:59.713-07:00Comments on Ab Opposito: More Seamless-GarbageThe Herring familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06693214404821651082noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003329929042238384.post-12643636209860972272007-02-12T22:00:00.000-08:002007-02-12T22:00:00.000-08:00Christina,1) You've got a great blog! I plan to li...Christina,<BR/><BR/>1) You've got a great blog! I plan to link to it in the future. <BR/><BR/>2) Thanks for the kind words.<BR/><BR/>3) I appreciate the constructive criticism but I'm going to stick with my guns on this one. <BR/><BR/>From your blog alone, I could not determine whether or not you are Catholic. In any case, the term "Seamless Garment" was coined by the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (d. 1996) of Chicago, and has lead to mass confusion among untold millions of Catholics in America.<BR/><BR/>Instead of focusing attention on the most serious and grave evils of our time, the good bishops have opted for a more "balanced" approach, (as evidenced in this interview with Archbishop Niederauer) by discussing "the many" and "varied" aspects of human life that are "under attack" today. Among these are euthanasia, homelessness, abortion, health care, affordable housing, welfare, the death penalty, and more. The (intended?) result has been literally tens of millions of Catholics who are absolutely clueless about morality. <BR/><BR/>For them there is no heirarchy of values (i.e., torturing and killing unborn babies > poverty), which is why John Kerry stole about half the Catholic vote. Many Catholics disagreed with his position on abortion, but liked his economic policies more than they did those of George W. <BR/><BR/>Besides, Bush is in favor of the death penalty...so the vote goes to Kerry -- or, in any number of other elections, Nancy Pelosi, or Patty Murray, or Maria Cant-vote-well, or the Cape Cod Orca, or Joe Biden, or Patrick Leahy -- so what's the big deal?<BR/><BR/>...another Catholic whose only hope for Eternal Joy comes via the 8th Sacrament: Ignorance.<BR/><BR/>And while the millions of ignorant, uniformed, misguided, lay Catholics may be able squirm out from under the tremendous weight of judgment that is abortion, I find it hard to believe the likes of Bernardin, Mahoney, and Niederauer will be able to play the same trump card on the Last Day.<BR/><BR/>Afterall, it was their "Seamless Garbage" which informed and guided all those Catholics to elect all those pro-aborts. It was their leadership, by and large, which got us up to our necks in this moral cesspool to begin with.<BR/><BR/>And my "confrontational way" of calling Bernardin's strategy 'garbage,' tucked away on an obscure blog, is about the extent of my ability to object to it. <BR/><BR/>But object to it I must.The Herring familyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06693214404821651082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9003329929042238384.post-72689709868071698032007-02-12T18:24:00.000-08:002007-02-12T18:24:00.000-08:00You make an excellent point, but you might want to...You make an excellent point, but you might want to state it in a less confrontational way than with a "seamless-garbage" headline. <BR/><BR/>You might actually be able to divert some SGN people toward anti-abortion or anti-euthanasia advocacy with their time rather than anti-DP if they realize how much more effective antiabortion efforts can be in terms of saving lives.Christina Duniganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04785550737493692252noreply@blogger.com