Created in his image
Human dignity is the value that each person has because he/she was created in the image of God. Every single person has human dignity and it cannot be taken away, no matter what! Many people believe that when a person uses his freewill to choose bad instead of good his human dignity is chipped away. Eventually the bad choices lead to vices, bad habits that are difficult to cease. When a person continually chooses bad over good that person is moving farther from God and closer to evil. Most people would say that violent criminals, child molesters, and mass murders have absolutely no human value. Lots of people think they should be wiped off of the face of this earth.
The Catholic Church would say that even Hitler still had human dignity. Of course his acts were some of the most sinister acts of evil ever conducted. However, he still has human dignity because one cannot be uncreated by God. God created each of us in his image and likeness. Those who choose to follow the darkness and sin find it more difficult to validate their own value. Jesus Christ taught forgiveness. This is the year of Mercy. We are to forgive one another. One of the main ideas of our teachings is forgiveness. We believe that everyone can have a conversion of heart. With this belief of forgiveness we are admitting that those evil people still have worth. The love that God placed within each and every soul at birth cannot be taken away. It can be distracted, tainted, abused, neglected, and abandoned, but it cannot be destroyed.
No one can be UN created, no one can take away the love of God from our souls, and no one can ever be without human dignity.
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Let’s go Mrs. Hadorn-Disselkamp.
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this awoke a memory from my college days. I minored in Philosophy, mandatory in a Catholic college…one of our Dominican priests said our free will can only choose good…even if it is morally evil, we see it as good. If we freely choose, premeditated, deliberately decide to kill someone…we see it as good…I’ll be better off, the world will be better off IF I commit this act. That’s why formation of our conscience is so important. What brought this to mind was he used Hitler as his example…he started out asking, “Does God love Hitler” and the answer was YES, because God made and saved Hitler, he was baptized and a child of God…”Does God love what Hitler did?” and the answer was NO. I’ve often wondered if Hitler had not been expelled from a Catholic school would he have been a different person? If he repented before he committed suicide he MIGHT be in heaven when I get there, and I’ll be able to ask him. Hmmm, time to reflect on how I feel about meeting him in heaven…God is good all the time, all the time God is good!