{"id":9046,"date":"2013-01-23T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/leftist-first-catholic-second\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T12:01:49","slug":"leftist-first-catholic-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/leftist-first-catholic-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist First, Catholic Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">For too many Catholics and other Christians, their leftism is their real &#39;religion.&#39;&#0160; This from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/2013\/01\/a-ramadan-fast-at-a-catholic-school\/\" target=\"_self\">The Thinking Housewife<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>ANNY YENNY <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/politichicks.tv\/column\/middle-school-extra-credit-fasting-for-ramadan\/\">reports<\/a> at the website <em>Politichicks <\/em>that her eighth-grade son was given extra credit by his Catholic school religion teacher for fasting on the first day of Ramadan. When the mother complained, the teacher objected and \u201clectured [her] on the superiority of Muslims to Christians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The principles of ecumenism put forth at Vatican II lead with irrevocable logic to teaching Catholics how to be good Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I agree with something in the vicinity of the point&#0160;the Housewife makes here.&#0160; But&#0160;her last sentence illustrates the slippery slope fallacy.&#0160; If the logic is &quot;irrevocable,&quot; then it is deductively valid; but slippery slope argumentation, if intended to be deductive, is always invalid.&#0160; What should she have said?&#0160; Something like this: &#39;The ecumenism of Vatican II set the stage for, and made likely, the sort of absurdities that Anny Yenny complains of.&quot;&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Surely there was no<em> logical necessity<\/em> that the principles of Vatican II eventuate in the absurdity in question.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For too many Catholics and other Christians, their leftism is their real &#39;religion.&#39;&#0160; This from The Thinking Housewife: ANNY YENNY reports at the website Politichicks that her eighth-grade son was given extra credit by his Catholic school religion teacher for fasting on the first day of Ramadan. When the mother complained, the teacher objected and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/01\/23\/leftist-first-catholic-second\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftist First, Catholic Second&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,163,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-logica-utens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}