Re: Motives, Reason and Action

"Robert" <robert45@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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<snip> ...
You are quite wrong in saying that for monotheists, and of course
Muslims, "moral principles are appreciated by religious revelation".
The Catholic (central Christian) tradition in moral theology is
contrary to this: it holds that reason is capable of recognizing moral
truths. ...

Comment:-
Isn't this more doctrinal equivocation and obfuscation? What is the
ambiguous "central Christian" from an Islamic perspective? Are you artfully
suggesting that subscribers, Muslims or otherwise, are expected to
arrogantly believe that Catholics are the only "real" Christians? In the
Islamic sense, aren't Christians qua Christians simply "People of the Book",
as are the devout followers of revelatory Judaism or Zoroastrianism?

Perhaps, following your idea, there are "central Muslims" as well. Isn't
that, for the sake of argument, the difference between Sunni and Shia? Now
what about the Sufis or the four main Sunni schools of Islamic
jurisprudence, etc?

As a Catholic one would presume you would have read and fully understood
"Fides et Ratio". Obviously not. Here's an excerpt:-

Extract:-

"Having recalled that the word of God is present in both Scripture and
Tradition, the Constitution Dei Verbum continues emphatically: "Sacred
Tradition and Sacred Scripture comprise a single sacred deposit of the word
of God entrusted to the Church. Embracing this deposit and united with their
pastors, the People of God remain always faithful to the teaching of the
Apostles". Scripture, therefore, is not the Church's sole point of
reference. The "supreme rule of her faith" derives from the unity which the
Spirit has created between Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and the
Magisterium of the Church in a reciprocity which means that none of the
three can survive without the others."

End extract.

A dissimulative triune reciprocity, "Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture and
the Magisterium of the Church (papal infallibility [sic])". Isn't this
another example of a false trichotomy according to the principle tenets of
reason in the capacity or character of reason? You can reason what you like
as long as it doesn't contradict the Church's teachings! Is it any wonder
why this convoluted ambiguity or dissimulation. thoroughly misleads so many
unaware Catholics, as any reasonable Muslim, Jew or non-Catholic will tell
you in Spirit.

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Peace
--
Truth gains more . . . by the errors of one who, with due study and
preparation, thinks for himself than by the true opinions of those who only
hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think." [John Stuart
Mill]

Zuiko Azumazi
zuiko.azumazi@xxxxxxxxx

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