The Divorce Evil and Woman Suffrage It may be argued that the increasing prevalence of divorce in Woman Suffrage States is due, not to the fact that women are in politics, but to the fact that these …More
The Divorce Evil and Woman Suffrage It may be argued that the increasing prevalence of divorce in Woman Suffrage States is due, not to the fact that women are in politics, but to the fact that these States are inhabited by a comparatively unstable people, who hold the marriage bond much more lightly than their more conservative and perhaps more religious neighbors. Well, which horn of this dilemma do the suffragists want to take? Does Woman Suffrage increase divorce? Or Do none but unstable, radical peoples adopt Woman Suffrage? The fact is that both these questions should be answered in the affirmative. Woman Suffrage does increase divorce, because divorce has increased faster under Woman Suffrage than it did before; and only radical peoples, with comparatively elastic notions about marriage, adopt Woman Suffrage, because it has yet to be adopted by vote of the people in any State which has not proven an easy prey to Mormonism, Socialism and other radical doctrines. Vote “ NO” on Woman …More
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Read St John Chrysostom On Marriage & Family Life
Homily 20 on Ephesians (Chrysostom)
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Even In Holy Matrimony.... “A Christian may therefore live in concord with his wife, whether with her providing for a fleshly craving, a thing which the apostle speaks by permission, not by commandment …More
Even In Holy Matrimony.... “A Christian may therefore live in concord with his wife, whether with her providing for a fleshly craving, a thing which the apostle speaks by permission, not by commandment; or providing for the procreation of children, which may be at present in some degree praiseworthy; or providing for a brotherly and sisterly fellowship, without any corporeal connection, having his wife as though he had her not, as is most excellent and sublime in the marriage of Christians: yet so that in her he hates the name of temporal relationship, and loves the hope of everlasting blessedness.” St. Augustine of Hippo
What would you think about the structural engineer who rejected the absolute principles of the natural laws of physics when designing a bridge? Say his attitude was "those laws of physics are so yesterday …More
What would you think about the structural engineer who rejected the absolute principles of the natural laws of physics when designing a bridge? Say his attitude was "those laws of physics are so yesterday. They were discovered by racist white men in the middle ages. I say to engineers today 'resist!' 'you be you!' You design that bridge in whatever fashion suits you." Would you want to cross that completed bridge? What is more important a bridge or a family?
C.S. Lewis gives an honest assessment of the TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC view of the carnal union, showing the clear CONTRAST between the TRADITIONAL and MODERN views. Most Christians (including so-called "…More
C.S. Lewis gives an honest assessment of the TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC view of the carnal union, showing the clear CONTRAST between the TRADITIONAL and MODERN views. Most Christians (including so-called "traditionalists" )subscribe to the MODERN VIEW.
Medieval Thinking about Sexual Appetite & Romantic Love
Philosophy Lovers! Click Here Medieval Thinking about Sexual Appetite & Romantic Love [The following passage by C. S. Lewis is from “Courtly Love …
"Thomas Aquinas, whose thought is always so firm and clear in itself, is a baffling figure for our present purpose. He seems always to take away with …More
"Thomas Aquinas, whose thought is always so firm and clear in itself, is a baffling figure for our present purpose. He seems always to take away with one hand what he holds out to us with the other. Thus he has learned from Aristotle that marriage is a species of amicitia [friendship]. On the other hand, he proves that sexual life would have existed without the Fall by the argument that God would not have given Adam a woman as a “help” except for this purpose; for any other, a man would obviously have been so much more satisfactory. He is aware that affection between the parties concerned increases sexual pleasure, and that union even among the beasts implies a certain kindliness—suavem amicitiam—and thus seems to come to the verge of the modern conception of love. But the very passage in which he does so is his explanation of the law against incest: he is arguing that unions between close kinsfolk are bad precisely because kinsfolk have mutual affection, and such affection would increase …More
After the Fall in the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve become First "WOKE" Couple "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did …More
After the Fall in the Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve become First "WOKE" Couple "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of ityour eyes will be opened, and you will [consider yourselves to] be like God, knowing good and evil.”So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to bedesired to make one wise[in their own eyes],she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.Then the eyes of both were opened..."
Question 49. The marriage goods Are certain goods necessary in order to excuse marriage? Article 1. Whether certain blessings are necessary in order to excuse marriage? Objection 1. It would seem that certain blessings are not necessary in order to excuse marriage. For just as the preservation of the individual which is effected by the nutritive power is intended by nature, so too is the preservation of the species which is effected by marriage; and indeed so much the more as the good of the species is better and more exalted than the good of the individual. But no goods are necessary to excuse the act of the nutritive power. Neither therefore are they necessary to excuse marriage. Objection 2. Further, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 12) the friendship between husband and wife is natural, and includes the virtuous, the useful, and the pleasant. But that which is virtuous in itself needs no excuse. Therefore neither should any goods be assigned for the excuse of …More
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