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So the whole Live Action thing is in the news.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 Looks like they\u2019ve been calling around to see if Planned Parenthood really does provide mammograms \u2013 which is why Planned Parenthood says it needs the money, for services like that.\u00a0 Seems Live Action isn\u2019t committing that mortal sin of lying in this case, and many have taken to cheering, saying well done, forgiving them their blasphemous evils, and pointing out that evil can be defeated without lying \u2013 even though I\u2019ve not seen any more results of this honest approach than I did the much maligned sting operations of a month or so ago. <\/p>\n

On Mark Shea\u2019s blog, he posts an article<\/a> pointing the same things out \u2013 that lying isn\u2019t necessary, and it\u2019s nice to see Live Action doing it right.\u00a0 Fair enough.\u00a0 But then, in the comments, I read this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTechnically, Mark, they also asked questions like \u201cI was hoping I could come into Planned Parenthood for a mammogram\u201d (from their Georgetown and St. Louis PP call) Now, most of the called-in inquiries on their video were of the \u201cDoes Planned Parenthood offer mammograms?\u201d sort, but some were fibs, for they were posing as someone wanting to come in for a mammogram.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see that?\u00a0 Live Action is only mostly perfect.\u00a0 They\u2019re still not 100% perfect \u2013 and that\u2019s where we should focus!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the stereotypes of Catholicism is, of course, that it guts the Gospel of its heart and soul and replaces it with a stone cold, heartless, computer microchip precision style legalism.\u00a0 But another is something I remember hearing as\u00a0a Protestant.\u00a0 That Catholics firmly believe that salvation is attained by everyone[else] being 100% perfect 100% of the time.\u00a0 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% perfection just won\u2019t do.\u00a0 Unless, of course, it\u2019s my own sins \u2013 which are OK, since God loves to forgive me, I have confession, and when I sin it\u2019s just the natural thing to do and grace and forgiveness and mercy and all that jazz.\u00a0 <\/span>

Hence, Catholics give the dual presentation of a religion where nobody has a ghost of a chance to be saved since except for a select few (who can have among the worst lives of anyone), folks just will never be able to cut it (think Martin Luther).\u00a0 And yet on the other side, one that maintains a religion that continually scores near dead last on all the religious studies and surveys.\u00a0 A religion where its adherents have the reputation of out lying, out cheating, out screwing, out drinking, out gambling, out smoking, and out debauching the most die-hared atheist.\u00a0 Because the focus in on how intolerant we should be of everyone[else]\u2019s sins, but so understanding of our own.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course that isn\u2019t unique to Catholicism.\u00a0 It is a human trait to focus on the splinter in our neighbor\u2019s eye while demanding nothing less than understanding and forgiveness for the logs in our own eyes.\u00a0 But with the Catholic Faith\u2019s premium on philosophical wrangling in order to explain and promote this or that teaching, when filtered through that weird, strange world of the combox, it can certainly make it appear that, at least in this case, old stereotypes have at least some basis in fact.
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So the whole Live Action thing is in the news.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 Looks like they\u2019ve been calling around to see if Planned Parenthood really does provide mammograms \u2013 which is why Planned Parenthood says it needs the money, for services like that.\u00a0 Seems Live Action isn\u2019t committing that mortal sin of lying in this case, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nLiving up to Catholic Stereotypes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"So the whole Live Action thing is in the news.  Fine.  Looks like they've been calling around to see if Planned Parenthood really does provide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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