tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post5632174284073967544..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Inbreeding of Charles II of Spainelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-27342138379799644732014-01-28T15:06:30.497-05:002014-01-28T15:06:30.497-05:00You are so right, Clare. Thank you for the resourc...You are so right, Clare. Thank you for the resources.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-35394679231292058392014-01-28T14:03:45.406-05:002014-01-28T14:03:45.406-05:00Whenever I read of power structures tempted to con...Whenever I read of power structures tempted to concede to worldly means to attain godly ends (http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2014/01/abortion-birth-control-and-breast-cancer.html) I call to mind JPII's play Radiation of Fatherhood, wherein he reminds us of the folly of man's isolation, trapped in his own ideologies. Sadly, the Church in Spain (and the Pope in Rome) must have fallen victim to the same temptation for Canon law proscribed incest to the 7th degree (thank St Thomas Aquinas & the gifts of the Holy Spirit http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/st-augustine-and-st-thomas-aquinas/ CAUTION a confessed atheist 'eugenically-minded' blogger, absolutely no endorsement for her radical reductionist-deterministic worldview implied, only her acknowledgement of the Church's wisdowm in these manners) whatever possessed them to agree to these sort of tribal arrangements so soon after ridding the Iberian Peninsula of Islam and its cousin marriages? <br /><br />And we should be aware this is not an historical anomaly: traditional FBD-marriages result in similar ill-health in those cultures that practice it (in China, clans favor MDB conjugations). It would appear Christianity was the first religion to correct for this fatal human fault of nepotism. But we moderns never learn do we? ... surrogacy and IVF are busy creating generations of anonymous inter-related children: <br />http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?display=1&mode=play&obj=33765 <br />H/T Wesley Smith at http://www.cbc-network.org/2014/01/my-predictions-in-bioethics-right-again/<br /><br /> <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16685207104773813929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-88444760735135574832014-01-26T16:55:49.023-05:002014-01-26T16:55:49.023-05:00All I can say is WOW. I needed this.All I can say is WOW. I needed this.Sassy Countesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04529142423534090084noreply@blogger.com