"And we have a whole generation of people now—really two generations of people now—whose first sexual experiences, whose only experiences of community, have taken place on the internet, meaning they’re disembodied, and we haven’t taken into account what having all of a person’s sexual experiences be disembodied does to a person, when they’re first developing their concept of sexuality and identity. But we’re seeing it play out, because if you don’t form your sense of identity in community, then your identity, if you’re just talking about yourself as a black hole, you end up in nihilism, because by ourselves we aren’t human; we aren’t anything. Aristotle knew that! If you’re going to live by yourself, you have to be a beast or a god. And Nietzsche said ¿Porque no los dos? [Laughter] But you can’t be human by yourself.
So the solution to this is not to degrade people and insult people, insist on calling them things they don’t want to be called in public to make some kind of point. That’s not the solution. The solution is we have to work to rebuild communities so that people who have grown up without any concept of what it even is start to understand what community life is. And once you’re in a community, your identity gets formed, because you have a role within that community. You have gifts and abilities that you share with that community, and then in return the community places certain responsibilities upon you. And you—contributing what you can and fulfilling those responsibilities gives you a sense of self and a sense of self-worth and a sense of being appreciated, and that makes for a healthy person.
But we can’t argue at people out of this while they’re sitting alone in their room in front of a computer. No matter what you post on Twitter, you’re not going to convince anybody of anything, and you’re not going to help them. I know most of the people doing these things don’t care about helping them, because they’ve identified these people as the enemy in some kind of culture war. But our goal as Christians should be to help these people find salvation, and they’re only going to find salvation in a community, specifically the community of the Church, and that’s why that’s where we start building these communities.
So there. Now everyone’s mad at me—and I’m happy." Father Stephen De Young
So the solution to this is not to degrade people and insult people, insist on calling them things they don’t want to be called in public to make some kind of point. That’s not the solution. The solution is we have to work to rebuild communities so that people who have grown up without any concept of what it even is start to understand what community life is. And once you’re in a community, your identity gets formed, because you have a role within that community. You have gifts and abilities that you share with that community, and then in return the community places certain responsibilities upon you. And you—contributing what you can and fulfilling those responsibilities gives you a sense of self and a sense of self-worth and a sense of being appreciated, and that makes for a healthy person.
But we can’t argue at people out of this while they’re sitting alone in their room in front of a computer. No matter what you post on Twitter, you’re not going to convince anybody of anything, and you’re not going to help them. I know most of the people doing these things don’t care about helping them, because they’ve identified these people as the enemy in some kind of culture war. But our goal as Christians should be to help these people find salvation, and they’re only going to find salvation in a community, specifically the community of the Church, and that’s why that’s where we start building these communities.
So there. Now everyone’s mad at me—and I’m happy." Father Stephen De Young
Fourth Lateran Council
68. Jews appearing in public
A difference of dress distinguishes Jews or Saracens from Christians in some provinces, but in others a certain confusion has developed so that they are indistinguishable. Whence it sometimes happens that by mistake Christians join with Jewish or Saracen women, and Jews or Saracens with christian women. In order that the offence of such a damnable mixing may not spread further, under the excuse of a mistake of this kind, we decree that such persons of either sex, in every christian province and at all times, are to be distinguished in public from other people by the character of their dress — seeing moreover that this was enjoined upon them by Moses himself, as we read. They shall not appear in public at all on the days of lamentation and on passion Sunday; because some of them on such days, as we have heard, do not blush to parade in very ornate dress and are not afraid to mock Christians who are presenting a memorial of the most sacred passion and are displaying signs of grief. What we most strictly forbid however, is that they dare in any way to break out in derision of the Redeemer. We order secular princes to restrain with condign punishment those who do so presume, lest they dare to blaspheme in any way him who was crucified for us, since we ought not to ignore insults against him who blotted out our wrongdoings.
68. Jews appearing in public
A difference of dress distinguishes Jews or Saracens from Christians in some provinces, but in others a certain confusion has developed so that they are indistinguishable. Whence it sometimes happens that by mistake Christians join with Jewish or Saracen women, and Jews or Saracens with christian women. In order that the offence of such a damnable mixing may not spread further, under the excuse of a mistake of this kind, we decree that such persons of either sex, in every christian province and at all times, are to be distinguished in public from other people by the character of their dress — seeing moreover that this was enjoined upon them by Moses himself, as we read. They shall not appear in public at all on the days of lamentation and on passion Sunday; because some of them on such days, as we have heard, do not blush to parade in very ornate dress and are not afraid to mock Christians who are presenting a memorial of the most sacred passion and are displaying signs of grief. What we most strictly forbid however, is that they dare in any way to break out in derision of the Redeemer. We order secular princes to restrain with condign punishment those who do so presume, lest they dare to blaspheme in any way him who was crucified for us, since we ought not to ignore insults against him who blotted out our wrongdoings.
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