tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post7677705669124672101..comments2024-01-20T00:00:10.459-08:00Comments on Mudblood Catholic: Felix CulpaGabriel Blanchardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-28048895901059177822014-01-15T16:02:16.469-08:002014-01-15T16:02:16.469-08:00Understood. Thanks for letting me know, and I appr...Understood. Thanks for letting me know, and I appreciate your concern for Sancta.<br /><br />Also I've been reading this blog for months. I only popped in because Sancta was making my eyes pop out. Keep it up!Tynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-22872618133517056912014-01-15T15:40:09.888-08:002014-01-15T15:40:09.888-08:00I'm grateful for your desire for equity, Ty. T...I'm grateful for your desire for equity, Ty. That being said, I'd like to discourage interactions of this sort. I made the unhappy decision to ban Sancta Trinitas because I felt that his influence on me and my readers was toxic, and that even what patience and engagement I was able to display appeared likelier to harm him than to help him. (This may sound awful but isn't so very surprising -- not only is helping people often a difficult thing in itself, not only am I often selfish and often short-sighted, but the internet is a clumsy tool for this sort of thing.) If he is writing about his experiences and opinions he's perfectly within his rights -- that is essentially what I'm doing, too; and I don't want him to feel persecuted or as though people are speaking behind his back.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-42986356230693499232014-01-14T10:59:58.123-08:002014-01-14T10:59:58.123-08:00You're not alone in that opinion, Gabriel.You're not alone in that opinion, Gabriel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-51587732312319307352014-01-14T10:47:25.449-08:002014-01-14T10:47:25.449-08:00Well said. Bravo!Well said. Bravo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-3090862354448314682014-01-14T08:56:18.616-08:002014-01-14T08:56:18.616-08:00Pray for Sancta. I have no idea why or how he thin...Pray for Sancta. I have no idea why or how he thinks that you question Church teaching. He has excessive confidence in his ability to psychoanalyze other people, and nearly all his posts drip with "charity". <br /><br />If he is reading this: You say that homophobia is something new, not mentioned in the Fathers, and Gabriel's condemnation of it is his own way of infecting orthodox Catholics with alien "Marxist" fantasies. I have two things to say to this. First, nobody is saying that homophobia is a sin in a class of its own. There is no eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not be homophobic." Rather, to hate a gay person *merely* because he is gay is a sin against the 2nd commandment, to love others as yourself. You are right to condemn the liberal bastardization of the 2nd commandment--it is loving and charitable to condemn sexual immorality, which includes gay sex and so on. <br /><br />2, the reason "homophobia" specifically is not mentioned in the Fathers is because the "gay" identity is modern. There were most certainly "gay" and "homosexual" people during the age of the Fathers, but they wouldn't recognize the labels, so there wasn't a precise animus against them as a group. "Homophobia" in the sense of unjustified revulsion at gay *people* (not actions) is a modern form of an ancient sin.<br /><br />Tynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-42126775927835346582014-01-14T07:04:37.970-08:002014-01-14T07:04:37.970-08:00Funny, after reading this the other day, before an...Funny, after reading this the other day, before any other comments were left, I was going to just comment "Swish." I wish I'd done that then, cuz this post was Awesome-sauce.<br /><br />Hope I can shake your hand one day sir. I am frequently and deeply moved by your writings, and I frequently laugh my ass off as well. I stopped reading Sancta Trinitas' comments, because they were bringing me down hard, but I pray that his/her heart will seek to understand a little more clearly what you are getting it in general on this blog.<br /><br />One of the biggest lies of the modern world is that "Words will never hurt me." You just gotta read James to get rebuked on that. God the Word came as a whisper, not thunder. So I'll be praying for you today, that you'd feel a little better about the whole thing deep down, and know that the answer is not to get thicker skin, but to offer it up as any other suffering. Your new policy is spot-on. Keep broadcasting the beautiful writings good sir.JMCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-74349078177553173572014-01-14T06:53:43.846-08:002014-01-14T06:53:43.846-08:00Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I wouldn't iden...Ah, I see what you mean. Well, I wouldn't identify it as Pelagian. There are erroneous beliefs and wrong behaviors picked up from environment, and in their own way they are also manifestations of original sin; to insist that homosexuality is among these is in my opinion groundless and misguided, but not heretical. It would be Pelagian if a person insisted (presumably with a nurture-origin theory in the background) that nothing but good will and merely human effort were necessary to overcome the sinful element of a homosexual disposition; and it could be argued that the tenor of some Christian critics of the LGBT world, and especially of chaste gays, betrays a subconscious or implicit assent to such a view. But that, if true, would be a slightly different problem.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-82611259121143310622014-01-13T17:32:40.130-08:002014-01-13T17:32:40.130-08:00Upon rereading it, I see where I goofed.
First, i...Upon rereading it, I see where I goofed.<br /><br />First, it seems rather...Pelagian for someone to believe that one actively chooses to be gay, that is "same-sex attracted," in that it *denies* that the gayness, again, the experience of being attracted to members of the same sex, is a manifestation of original sin.<br /><br />Sorry for the confusion. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-43968490559503888832014-01-13T17:24:50.409-08:002014-01-13T17:24:50.409-08:00Thank you for your encouragement. Pray for me.Thank you for your encouragement. Pray for me.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-42770355490889065462014-01-13T16:34:07.139-08:002014-01-13T16:34:07.139-08:00Well, Sancta Trinitas, you have defeated me. I had...Well, Sancta Trinitas, you have defeated me. I had originally intended never to ban commenters, and you've gotten me to eat my words and indeed my resolutions on that subject: I will no longer publish any comments that you leave. I simply haven't got the mental or emotional energy to deal with you any more. Your assertions that I am suppressing comments out of fear, I feel is adequately refuted by the number of comments I have published, from yourself and several others, contradicting my views and saying quite horrible (or sometimes merely confusing) things about my character. Your contention, repeated a few times, that I am censoring you is merely absurd, since you are perfectly free to, for example, start a blog of your own called "Gabriel Blanchard Is a Marxist Sodomite" and use it to fisk everything I post. But I won't continue be party to what -- in your own words -- is an exercise in assuring yourself of your own superiority.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-34669933460350777982014-01-13T16:27:36.326-08:002014-01-13T16:27:36.326-08:00I certainly agree with your second thought, but I ...I certainly agree with your second thought, but I don't think I understand your first. Could you re-explain it?Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-2708988537054515952014-01-13T10:03:55.288-08:002014-01-13T10:03:55.288-08:00Gabriel, you're doing fantastic work. Please i... Gabriel, you're doing fantastic work. Please ignore the crazies like Sancta Trinitas and keep doing what you're doing - we desperately need orthodox gay Catholics to speak for the Church. <br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /><br /> a fellow Catholic convert.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-76445454408149493892014-01-13T09:22:08.039-08:002014-01-13T09:22:08.039-08:00I had two thoughts as I read your blog and the ref...I had two thoughts as I read your blog and the referenced articles.<br /><br />First, it seems rather...Pelagian for someone to believe that one actively chooses to be gay, that is "same-sex attracted," in that it implies that the gayness, again, the experience of being attracted to members of the same sex, is a manifestation of original sin.<br /><br />Second, St. Paul tell us in Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose." I would think that the gayness would be included in the "all things" category that God can use for good, yes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-33029542928817969112014-01-12T20:08:52.734-08:002014-01-12T20:08:52.734-08:00I would like to believe that you have in fact been...I would like to believe that you have in fact been sincerely trying to simply disagree intellectually rather than to vilify me on a personal level. Nevertheless, I don't think you have even come close to succeeding in that attempt. Anyone who reads your comments can decide on that for themselves.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-40082187076483767822014-01-12T17:29:49.397-08:002014-01-12T17:29:49.397-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-54744034098327489792014-01-12T12:27:32.510-08:002014-01-12T12:27:32.510-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-9520592530608893082014-01-12T05:38:53.319-08:002014-01-12T05:38:53.319-08:00Considering that you never have anything positive ...Considering that you never have anything positive to say about my writing and give every impression of hating and despising me, why do you even read this blog? I should have thought it'd be like biting on a sore tooth. And you must know by now that I'm not going to be persuaded by anything you say; quite apart from gross ignorance and downright paranoia about gay people, your generally venomous remarks almost make it impossible for me to take what you have to say seriously. I'd add that, in your position, I would have been embarrassed to be so uniformly and corrosively hateful toward someone who troubled to publish everything I said that did not consist exclusively of insults.Gabriel Blanchardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17607504369762849930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-44096328141394332532014-01-12T03:44:35.905-08:002014-01-12T03:44:35.905-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-73356225948640761242014-01-12T03:25:36.103-08:002014-01-12T03:25:36.103-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5766538007498037282.post-1352921727544370812014-01-12T03:17:42.804-08:002014-01-12T03:17:42.804-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com