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Originally Posted by Niall
Well this is the thing, I still agree with their idea of God and style of mass. Its just some of the teachings the of Catholic Church I have major issues with which I have listed. You could say I'm Christian but I still prefer to consider myself Catholic because in any other church service I feel really alienated because everything is different. The Catholic service is the only place I feel normal in if you get what I mean?
Oh your church was part of that scandal then?  |
Your church was part of it too. The Catholic Church?
What is the Catholic idea of God then? Is it really that exclusive to Catholicism? Does being a 'Catholic' make the God somehow more real? More plausible? And what is that God anyway. Presumably it's the God of The Bible. That child slaying, city destroying rampant narcissist. What a bastard of a God to believe in, right?
I don't want to tell you what you are but Christians - practicing Christians - believe the Bible to be the word of God. They believe in the creation story, they believe the seed of life is sacred, all that sort of thing. You can't really cherry pick the sexy bits and disregard the vast majority of the tract.
One of the cornerstones of the Catholic belief is that your leader - the Pope - is infallible. That he is a direct voice of God and he can't be wrong. Believing those kind of things is what makes you a Catholic surely. Not finding the church buildings relaxing to sit in?
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Originally Posted by Niamh.
I've never heard of pantheistic before.
I don't think I need to ex communicate myself as the catholic church have no hold over me anyway.
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Of course they don't but you add to their numbers. Imagine if all the millions of Catholics-who-are-not-really-Catholics excommunicated tommorow morning? The Vatican would be embarrased. And I do love watching them get embarrased.