{"id":591,"date":"2010-09-23T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:43:38","slug":"roman-catholic-social-policy-vs-sharia-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholic Social Policy vs Sharia Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked (shocked, I tell you, shocked!) by <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/few-brief-thoughts-on-benedicts-visit.html?showComment=1285067131274#c7074793659462352265\">the Observer&#8217;s comment<\/a> &#8220;I would take sharia law over roman catholic social policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I find this unfathomable, and offer up this post so that people can have a natter about it, should they so desire. Here are a few thoughts to kick things off:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_social_teaching#Principles_of_Catholic_Social_Teaching\">catholic social theology<\/a> as one of the glories of Christian thinking and practice. Whilst I have some minor disagreements with it (eg some aspects of sexual ethics &#8211; I disagree with Aquinas as to how to properly describe the <i>telos <\/i>of sexual behaviour) on the whole I find it a tremendously congenial place to stand;<br \/>&#8211; in contrast I see sharia law as profoundly iniquitous, not in theory (which I can understand) but in practice. To put it bluntly, the imposition of sharia law &#8211; not least if it threatened my daughters, eg their education &#8211; is something that I would have very few qualms about fighting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Roughly speaking, it seems to me that if you have any desire for the full human flourishing for those who are not the dominant heterosexual males in a society, then the Catholic side of things has to be preferred.<\/p>\n<p>Off you go \ud83d\ude42<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked (shocked, I tell you, shocked!) by the Observer&#8217;s comment &#8220;I would take sharia law over roman catholic social policy.&#8221; I find this unfathomable, and offer up this post so that people can have a natter about it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=591\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,20,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-culture","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-9x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}