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Sep. 2nd, 2008 09:50 pmHave found wonderfully barbed quotation attributed to the late Herbert McCabe OP, priest, theologian and philosopher:
"There is a depressing tendency on the part of both conservative and liberal Christians to assume that discussions of Christian morality are going to be mostly about sex. Sex is obviously a profoundly important mode of human communication, but to treat of it in isolation from the other social, political, and economic relationships between people is asking for trouble -asking for intellectual trouble I mean; in the practical field it is asking for a quiet life. So long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this, as I say, is depressing."
Barbed - but very apposite.
"There is a depressing tendency on the part of both conservative and liberal Christians to assume that discussions of Christian morality are going to be mostly about sex. Sex is obviously a profoundly important mode of human communication, but to treat of it in isolation from the other social, political, and economic relationships between people is asking for trouble -asking for intellectual trouble I mean; in the practical field it is asking for a quiet life. So long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this, as I say, is depressing."
Barbed - but very apposite.