Dear Editor: Ever notice that the more our Church practice becomes increasingly obsessed with denying even the possibility of personal sinfulness among ourselves and people we prefer to identify as being like ourselves, which we call being non-judgmental, we become more willing to judge and accuse others we prefer to assume are dissimilar to ourselves?
Writers to the Readers’ Forum use many unsubstantiated cliché nouns and adjectives of accusation to describe Donald Trump and anyone holding similar concerns to what animated much of his campaign. Clearly many Catholics could care less about the slaughter of abortion but allow themselves to accept the premises of liberal slurs that hatefully accuse their political adversaries of hate.
No Catholic who voted for Trump likes his propensity for well-publicized coarseness, although it pales to those episodes of his opponent, safely concealed by a media colluding to promote their false gods of progressivism, from which their historic politics of fear mongering has always managed to conversely project onto their critics.
No matter how many thousands of times distinctions are made between legal and illegal immigration and the need to control the latter, dishonest thought continues to ignore them. This rings similar to the obstinate refusal of amoral secularists to acknowledge the difference between embryonic and adult stem cell research. Too much self-congratulating esteem is at stake when the real desire is to feel we have superior social sensitivities without really having to be moral or sensitive.
The next time we want to indulge a superior sense of ourselves, consider visiting the insane asylums where many young drug addicts have fried their brains from the billions of dollars in drugs that drug-kingpin “El Chapo,” among others, have introduced to America, transported through multiple under-border tunnels between Mexico and Arizona, complete with lighting and air conditioning.
Consider visiting the permanently damaged souls of young women kidnapped into sex slavery and dragged across the border.
Consider visiting the next 9/11 memorial event and explaining to still-grieving families that their tragedy is less important than the self-satisfaction of imaginary compassion liberals try to sustain by never wanting to control illegal immigration, including those border crossings made by self-identified jihadist terrorists.
KENNETH FARLEY
Boerum Hill