@PadreLukasBased@Sehnsucht711 Lol, but I don’t condemn what I mentioned per se. It depends on the kind of dissolution. The problem is that atheist dissolution is intrinsically demonic and contains nothing civilizing or spiritual, unlike Christianity and paganism. In any case, I don’t want to argue about it.
@sefazesfavor@myeongwen@chernovlosya Yeah, because literary metaphors, analogies, and cultural/temporal meaning don’t exist. Everything should be written so that a twenty-first-century porjeet can read it, feel satisfied, and walk away understanding absolutely everything (including the most hidden meanings).
St. Bonaventure gives us the example of the Magdalene for what perfect love of Christ looks like, "Ablaze with the fire of divine love, she burned with such a powerful desire and was wounded with such an impatient love." (Lignum Vitae, VIII.32)
St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I-II, Q. 105, a. 3:
The foreigner *passing through* is to be treated kindly. He is not to be permitted fellowship, by default. Unless he is of exceptional moral virtue. No citizenship until maybe after the 2nd/3rd gen. Some groups may be denied wholesale.
In his Summa Theologiae, St Thomas Aquinas laid out one of the most charitable yet practical arguments concerning immigration that effectively shaped the West for almost 1,000 years.
1. Immigration must always be proportionate so that foreigners can properly assimilate into the culture and mode of worship of the state.
2. Citizenship – and associated rights – should only ever be granted after the third generation to preserve the culture, mode of worship, and constitution of the state.
3. The common good of the citizens must remain the highest priority of the state, meaning, the state's obligation to provide aid to its neighbours can never be at the expense of the citizens.
However, Aquinas ends with the sobering reminder that some peoples and states are incompatible with one another, and these must be held as "foes in perpetuity".