Thursday 4 September 2008

Amid The Encircling Gloom

The Classical concept of friendship that we still call “Platonic” to this day (but which is just as much Biblical - Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, Jesus and John, Paul and Timothy), recapitulated in Christ so as to include women and preclude pederasty, is something of which our debauched, de-Christianised, rootless excuse for a culture has completely lost sight.

Hence the decision to move Cardinal Newman from the grave of Father Ambrose St John in time for the former’s beatification. Regarded as a knock-down argument by the utterly, utterly filthy-minded.

Step forward, Peter Tatchell.

Who, I am told, does not after all wish to to make legal almost every act that has brought scandal on the Catholic Church, by lowering the age of consent to 14 (funny how I have heard him in the flesh propose a motion to that very effect). He merely wishes to legalise sex between under-14s who differ in age by not more than three years. So that’s all right, then. Isn’t it?

3 comments:

  1. So the logic of your post is that you favour the removal of Cardinal Newman's remains from the grave of his friend against his stated wishes?

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  2. "Platonic" love is of course a Platonic nonsense that only neo-Platonists would indulge. Actually C S Lewis distinguishes four sorts of love. Peter Tatchell knows nothing about any of them.

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  3. "neo-Platonists"

    Saint Augustine, for example. And thus also the strongly Augustinian Pope Benedict XVI.

    Philip, I just think it a shame that anyone feels that this is necessary, and therefore gives such a coup to the likes of Tatchell.

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