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Entry: Patriots, Not Haters Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/real_patriots_dont_hate#9716 Post contents: Boyd Cathey has the courage to sign his own writebacks. I commend him. And what he has written is more commendable than what our racialists and Stormfronters have written. Much of what he has written I agree with. He is too optimistic that the evil will not take racial difference and do evil thins. That said, compare: <i> racial differences are not just skin deep; that there are indeed distinguishable, inheritable traits. [...] The Church has never taught biological egalitarianism, nor has any pope so taught (as pope). They may have or may have had personal opinions, but biological differences are outside the scope of theology and church doctrine. </i> – Boyd Cathey <i> We cannot truly call on God, the Father of all, if we refuse to treat in a brotherly way any man, created as he is in the image of God. Man's relation to God the Father and his relation to men his brothers are so linked together that Scripture says: "He who does not love does not know God" (1 John 4:8). <b>No foundation therefore remains for any theory or practice that leads to discrimination between man and man or people and people, so far as their human dignity and the rights flowing from it are concerned.</b> <b>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.</b> 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, so that they may truly be sons of the Father who is in heaven.</i> – NOSTRA AETATE, #5. Emphasis added. And for a pope: <i> 47. But these efforts, as well as public and private allocations of gifts, loans and investments, are not enough. It is not just a question of eliminating hunger and reducing poverty. It is not just a question of fighting wretched conditions, though this is an urgent and necessary task. It involves building a human community where men can live truly human lives, <b>free from discrimination on account of race, religion or nationality,</b> free from servitude to other men or to natural forces which they cannot yet control satisfactorily. It involves building a human community where liberty is not an idle word, where the needy Lazarus can sit down with the rich man at the same banquet table. 62. <b>There are other obstacles to creation of a more just social order and to the development of world solidarity: nationalism and racism. </b> It is quite natural that nations recently arrived at political independence should be quite jealous of their new-found but fragile unity and make every effort to preserve it. It is also quite natural for nations with a long-standing cultural tradition to be proud of their traditional heritage. But this commendable attitude should be further ennobled by love, a love for the whole family of man. Haughty pride in one's own nation disunites nations and poses obstacles to their true welfare. It is especially harmful where the weak state of the economy calls for a pooling of information, efforts and financial resources to implement programs of development and to increase commercial and cultural interchange. . . . and Racism 63. Racism is not the exclusive attribute of young nations, where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil war. During the colonial period it often flared up between the colonists and the indigenous population, and stood in the way of mutually profitable understanding, often giving rise to bitterness in the wake of genuine injustices. It is still an obstacle to collaboration among disadvantaged nations and a cause of division and hatred within countries whenever individuals and families see the inviolable rights of the human person held in scorn, <b>as they themselves are unjustly subjected to a regime of discrimination because of their race or their color.</b> </i> POPULORUM PROGRESSIO, emphasis added. <i>If Philippe Rushton or Jared Taylor should suggest that DNA and IQ testing indicates “differences” [i.e. discrimination] biologically that does not in any way make them “Brown” or, for that matter, “Stormfronters.”</i> Boyd Cathey Boyd Cathey is correct. It makes them heretics. Boyd Cathey is also correct that the Magisterium does not say that individual persons are equal one to another, <i>provided</i> that “equal” were to mean “sameness”. The above documents show that race and discrimination by race can never be the criteria for such “un-sameness”. As it is, “race” is a 19th Century fiction anyway. Sent at: 2008 09 08