Christendom is a Dictatorship

So after the bad media coverage of the iPhone confession app there is a new bit of news concerning the app: it's an assault on the LGBT community. The Guardian reports the the Truth Wins Out organization has commended the application with the executive director saying

"This is cyber spiritual abuse that promotes backward ideas in a modern package. Gay Catholics don't need to confess, they need to come out of the closet and challenge anti-gay dogma. The false idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of has destroyed too many lives. This iPhone app is facilitating and furthering the harm."

Other Catholic bloggers have already commented about the fact that the people offended by the app do not need to download the app and that it is targeted towards Catholics who are, in theory, in line with Catholic doctrine or would like to be. This is of course irrelevant. What the group wants to do is point the finger at Catholics and say "Boo on you for not agreeing with us," and to rally non-heterosexual Catholics into a movement to change Catholic dogma.

So lets look at the idea of changing dogma in general, one of two things has to be true: either our understanding of God's law is changing or God's law is changing. If the second is true, if God's law is changing then the idea of moral absolutes is out the window, since that leads to moral relativism and atheism, we'll rule this option out. Now the first choice, we gain a better understanding of God's law: Okay, we are fallible beings who sin almost constantly, so this is definitely plausible; however, this must be done through study of scripture, tradition or divine revelation and not through raising a crowd of angry people.

So if a large, angry movement of Catholics aims to change dogma based b the fact they are angry and in large numbers they are have to embrace moral relativism and reject God. You cannot change dogma through numbers because God does not change and we cannot change our understanding of God's law on whim. This clashes with American culture and democratic ideals because we are not in control and we do not make the rules. The simple truth is Christianity is not a democracy, it is a benevolent dictatorship with God Himself on the throne.

So when a story is posted that 50% of young Catholics believe in homosexual activity, abortion, or premarital sex is moral and that the Church needs to reconsider its position, remember that this is only relevant as a testament to a poor job done by parents and catechists.