It really is starting to piss me off that i run into a lot of persuasive-oriented Catholic written material that is everything but persuasive. Today's is of an article from Catholic Answer's Chastity.com titled,
"Why Is Pornography wrong?"
Thanks be to God for those of us who don't tend to enjoy reading a lot, this article is less than half a page long.
That said, the article gets right to it, attempted to rationalize the Church's moral condemnation of Pornography. It starts off by saying, "Pornography violates the basic principles of human sexuality. God’s design is for sex to be a pure and wholesome act—an intimate act between man and wife in which the two express their love for and commitment to each other."
Excellent start. There are no real issues i can think of with what is said here. The only thing is missing is the thorough explanation for how pornography violates the basic principles of human sexuality. Ah, you see... This is where it all drives off a cliff.
Immediately following what was said above, "Because the sexual act is meant to be intimate, it is meant to be private"
Umm, says who? how exactly did you necessarily get from "Intimate" to "Private"?
As you should be able to see, there is no warranting explanation for why something must be private if something is intimate. They just expect you to agree with it, but this is only the beginning of the issue.
The article ultimately concludes that pornography is immoral because sex ought to be private and pornography makes it public........
There you have it guys, the great and mighty logical reason why pornography is immoral. Boy am i persuaded!!
I hope you guys are catching on to the point I am trying to make. This is a pretty pathetic case of argumentation, and it's unfortunate that it got published and promoted as though it somehow wasn't.
Another thing that really bothers me about it is the deception in it's title.
When i saw "Why Is Pornography wrong?", I was thinking that the article was going to talk about THE reason why pornography is wrong. In other words, the most important, profound and convincing reason.
But nope. At BEST it gave us A reason, and at worst, it pretty much gave us no reason why pornography is wrong or immoral.
At this point, all i want to do is just ask those who wrote this article, as well as though who really liked it;
Do you really find this to be persuasive???
I mean, if you were a Christian or even a Non-Christian who was considering the viewpoint of devout Catholicism, but by no means was highly convinced of it, do you think that this would at all suffice???
It really seems to be the case that many Catholics who take on the prospect of apologetics really don't sincerely care that the arguments they use are convincing, much less logically consistent and coherent.
