Building on my post from a couple of weeks ago about the imago Dei as the "person-in-community," the theology of the image of God has social, moral and political implications.
What an insidious line of thinking this boomerism was. While its adoption as a phrase was largely naive, its introduction and popularization was an active and knowing act of malice. Our predecessors knew better, and it's almost hard to believe people could have been convinced otherwise.
Tremendous violence has been done to us through the weapon of mass media.
Order, not freedom, is the highest principle, and the best guarantee also of the right degree of freedom.
- Fr Heinrich Pesch
What an insidious line of thinking this boomerism was. While its adoption as a phrase was largely naive, its introduction and popularization was an active and knowing act of malice. Our predecessors knew better, and it's almost hard to believe people could have been convinced otherwise.
Tremendous violence has been done to us through the weapon of mass media.
It really has, hasn’t it?