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Transgenderism: Escaping Limits, by R. R. Reno – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Transgenderism: Escaping Limits, by R. R. Reno

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: The Immensity of What Jesus Has Done for Us

Msgr. Charles Pope: I Have Come to Cast A Fire on the Earth – A Homily for Pentecost Sunday

By R. R. Reno, First Things, June 2022

The progressive imagination envisions a limitless future. Karl Marx thought that modern industrial production marked a new epoch in human history. Amid explosive growth during the industrial revolution, he thought we were on the cusp of material abundance. Marx argued that if we rejected the artificial scarcity of competitive capitalism (revolution!), then the curse of Adam, the necessity of hard labor to ensure survival, could be overcome. In a world of limitless plenty, each would be free to develop every aspect of his personality without limits. In the communist utopia we could “hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening,” while adopting the critical pose of the philosopher after dinner. …

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