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Entry: Race, Nationalism, and Patriotism, Part I: Race Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/race_nationalism_and_patriotism_part_i_race#15569 Post contents: Craig Senna present the Lamarckian view. How the Comrade Lysenko would love it! I'm not faulting Mr. Senna. "Acquired characteristics" seems sensible enough, just as "the sun rises" would seem sensible. But the later is the view of no astronomer since the 17th C, and Larmarckianism is the view of no biologist from Darwin on. Pray tell, How many Eskimos have blue eyes? Mr. Outlaw, not me, mentioned DNA. He is under the obligation to tell us his certified qualification for having an opinion on genetics (based on organic chemistry) whatsoever. Again, call it an old debaters habit, but the affirmative, not the negative, has the burden of proof. No proof = no case. The burden of proof is not only on the affirmative, not the negative, but also on the writer of an published article, not the writebackers. Our writer has made a claim that the Catholic Church teach (to use the unreal subjunctive) that race supposedly matters. His proof is to quote a document that says no such thing. Indeed, when read in its entirety and in its historical context, it is a document so fiercely opposed to racism and racialism -- Rosenberg directly alluded to -- that it is utterly, utterly ludicrous to use it to suggest a support for any racialist theory. When asked for a document that does say race to matter, our writer shirks the duty to his readers. The fact is there is not now nor ever has been a document of the Magisterium that says "race matters". I have quoted enough to show that The Church says quite the opposite. And I thought only certain New Order liturgists twisted document to mean what they want them to mean! Let's throw in another document that our writer doesn't bother to mention: <b>5 [...] The Church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against men or harassment of them because of their race, color, condition of life, or religion. On the contrary, following in the footsteps of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul, this sacred synod ardently implores the Christian faithful to "maintain good fellowship among the nations" (1 Peter 2:12), and, if possible, to live for their part in peace with all men,(14) so that they may truly be sons of the Father who is in heaven.</b> -- Vatican II, Nostra Aetate. Now what part of "any discrimination" do you not understand? Sent at: 2008 10 12