#invincible ignorance

[intelligentchristianlady]

A moment of silence...

[intelligentchristianlady]

It’s your patriotic duty.

[intelligentchristianlady]

Ha ha ouch.

[intelligentchristianlady]

[intelligentchristianlady]

It Applies to Politics Too

Michael Faraday made ... important discoveries in physics and chemistry because he resisted his assumptions until he could prove them with facts. He said, "There's nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right." [emphasis added] (x)

[tonreihe]

“In a letter to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Newman confided that despite those who claim that cultivated men have no excuse for invincible ignorance, it is precisely cultivated men who have this excuse more than any others.”

[immigrationnewsdigest]

Jefferson's nightmare is here: Government without newspapers. Click here -- https://t.co/sTSASkEBNy -- and despair, along with @wuerker @joelpett1 @halltoons & @TomTolesToons pic.twitter.com/UfX4Obv9uz

— Mike Peterson (@ComicStripOTD) September 12, 2020

CSotD: Government without newspapers The Daily Cartoonist

from Thursday, July 15, 2010 post

A decade on, the bigots triumph

I was on my way to deliver some newspapers to a classroom on September 11, 2001, when I walked through the newsroom and saw everyone focused on the TV reports. At that point, the news was that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. It was, of course, a tragedy, but a plane had hit the Empire State Building in 1945. These things happen.

I was in the car and about to pull out when the second plane hit and it became clear that Something Else was going on. My first thought was to help kids understand what had happened, and my second thought was "Dear God, anyone who wears a turban or hijab in the USA is in some deep shit right now."

We had just introduced a new educational feature, "Around the World with Nellie Bly," with a cartoon dog doing geography-in-the-news. It was normally a mid-sized feature, but I also had a full page feature that ran Mondays. I pulled that full page, and a version of this piece ran on September 17, less than a week after the attacks.

Then I made this version available to papers around the country, and around the world, and a little over a dozen took up the offer. I thought it was important that people realize that Islam is a very widespread and diverse religion. I wanted them to realize that there are Muslims who have never seen a camel, and who read Harry Potter and who drive Hondas.

Alas, nearly a decade later, the bigots and idiots have dominated the discussion. There is a debate over the construction of a mosque in New York City because it is near the WTC site. Fair enough, but the arguments against it are the arguments of morons. These people are idiots, with no understanding of a world beyond "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars." This is a jpg but that's what the blogspot interface allows. If you'd like a higher res PDF, let me know. I'm not sure you can battle against what Aquinas called "Invincible Ignorance," but what choice do we have?

[akacatholicism]

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and Invincible Ignorance

7. Here, too, our beloved sons and venerable brothers, it is again necessary to mention and censure a very grave error entrapping some Catholics who believe that it is possible to arrive at eternal salvation although living in error and alienated from the true faith and Catholic unity. Such belief is certainly opposed to Catholic teaching. There are, of course, those who are struggling with invincible ignorance about our most holy religion. Sincerely observing the natural law and its precepts inscribed by God on all hearts and ready to obey God, they live honest lives and are able to attain eternal life by the efficacious virtue of divine light and grace. Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments. 8. Also well known is the Catholic teaching that no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church. Eternal salvation cannot be obtained by those who oppose the authority and statements of the same Church and are stubbornly separated from the unity of the Church and also from the successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff, to whom ‘the custody of the vineyard has been committed by the Savior.’

- Pope BI. Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore (On Promotion of False Doctrines), 1863.