Of Mysogenies and Miseries
The notion that Highest Holiness is definitionally Non-Conjugally expressed "love" is a perversion, not the maximal expression of "Love." It was never anywhere expressed by Jesus. It was never communicated by any Apostle including Paul. It is in fact anti-biblical. It is a church creation that is incorrectly attributed to the Holy Spirit, and it is a myth in service of an institutional accomodation or "discipline" as has been acknowledged by the past Pope. 39 Popes were married prior to the second Millenium. It is a fabrication and deviation from Purest Holiness, invented in the 12th Century with a theology created after it to justify a variety of other earthly things (that co-incidentially also was reinforced by the lonely widow's lonely hearts club who benefitted from priests not marrying to give them more attention and affection- you see it at play still.)
Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to "LOVE" the Lord God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength- and the second flows from it- to Love your neighbor as yourself. The "strength" has a physical dimension and definition. To love one's neighbor with one's whole strength is not just intellectual (mind is) or spiritual (as soul is) or emotional (as heart is) but means a physical Love. An everything Love with one's whole self. The church has extracted the physical love out of the mandate- and it is a violation of the commandment. If "strength" is missing from your version look at Deuteronomy 6:5 where the commandment to Love God comes from that Jesus was quoting. Strength (sometimes translated as "might"; some translations have the quote in Matthew dropping it.)
It comes also from a place of deepest disdain for women. It facilitates mysogenies and miseries and keeps women from equal positions of authority under a perverted invented theology that was nowhere expressed by Jesus.
It may be "easier" to have a thousand post-menapausal girlfriends and pseudo "aunt" suggar mommas taking care of you and your Ministry, but it isn't holiness. Don't fool yourself, Pope JPII wasn't fooled. It is an adolescent priesthood that extracts all things physical from the Love commandment, and it causes a perversion in all the other dimensions.
You can call it what you want, but it is not "holiness." It might save you alimony and child support however if you don't have a concept of "faithfulness" which is a key attribute of Christ who in revelation is named "Faithful" and "True." Emotional adultery is every bit as evil as physical adultery and "Faithfulness" is an attribute of honor within character that is essential to Holiness. If one lacks that one really does not have a clue what LOVE means.
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