Nun of the Above

 

Friend Maximus sends in a piece from the CBC, an interview with a nun picked by the Vatican to attend the upcoming synod in Rome.

The most telling thing she says is this: “We humans tend to create these dualisms all the time, don't we? Good, bad, black, white, Catholic, non-Catholic. We always create dualisms and we did it with sexuality and gender. Male, female.”

Notice the very first “dualism” she cites as human-made and troublesome is good and bad: good and evil. 

There could be no flag of a brighter crimson. She rejects good and evil. She rejects the very concept of sin. She rejects the narrative of the Bible from its first verses, in which God separates the light from the darkness, and order from chaos. The battle against sin is the entire mission of the Church, the reason for human existence, and the reason Christ incarnated and died for us. Making binary choices was the reason Adam and Eve were created. This woman who intends to legislate for believers rejects it all.

Binaries are beautiful. Duality is beautiful. Without binaries, there is no balance, and so no art. Without binaries, male and female, self and other, there can be no love. And without binaries there can be no reason, no sense nor meaning to the world. This is Aristotle’s Law of non-contradiction: a thing is either so or not so.

Rejecting the binaries is Satanic. This Catholic nun is a Satanist. As is anyone who seeks ambiguity and lack of clarity. Jesus by contrast, is the Way, the Truth, and the Light, b which we see things clearly, and see our path clearly.

She also, of course, rejects science, in rejecting the male-female binary, visible in every cell. 

Of course, her reasoning is also contradictory on many levels. For example, if dualism i bad, then she is wrong to object to it, since that creates an exclusionary, non-inclusive duality between dualism and non-dualism, with dualism bad and non-dualism good. For another example, if there is no male-female binary, how can it be a problem that there are not enough female voices in the church?

Why on earth or in hell would anyone want to throw out Christianity, the Bible, science, art, love, and reason itself? Because—I can see no other reason—these are impediments to raw self-will, and the will to power. Any law or restriction protects the weak against the strong.

She wants to be God.