Religion Hurt Me

[antiochian]

Originally Posted by Pablo Rafael

I certainly know what you're talking about here, Jeff. I have given up posting on the Catholic.com forums because there is always that brick wall of the "Church Fathers" that blocks any discussion.

What surprises me a lot being in the Catholic church is how few "Traditionalist" Catholics there seems to be. Maybe I just hang around with a very liberal group and read books by liberal Catholic authors, but I see an acceptance of a wide variety of viewpoints in the church.

And that "infallability of the pope" teaching was a recent teaching in the 20th century and was proclaimed by one of the popes himself. (Seems like a conflict of interest to me.) I know I'm not one of the "good" Catholics, heretic that I am. (Being a "bad" Catholic is more interesting, however. I wonder sometimes why they put up with me )

Pablo

If you ever wanna get in some good scraps and have lots of time and patience on your hand, I know a Catholic website that'll be more than happy to tell you what an abominable, heretical, evil piece of stink you are for daring to contradict the TRADITION of the Church.

[iowan woman]

Antiochian wrote:
<<<According to an Episcopal priest I know, 3 out of 5 people on the globe are starving to death. Why are preachers, televangelists, popes, etc. wasting their time, breath and MONEY condemning us when they could be doing something about that??!! It makes me furious.>>>

Imagine what could happen if churches stopped spending millions talking and started using that money and all those hands to actually build something.

Also...If G-D only tells us what we need to know as we know it, who is to say that the Bible is not evolving and still being written.

that is just my opinion. and another thing - people writing in the spirit are still human - they make mistakes. G-D has to work with what is available.

The people on this site are awesome - in your posts you are an example of what is best about religion. You question, you give support, you step back and learn from each other.

I have been working and doing chores and not able to access this site much - It is so nice to drop in and see that the thread of love remains unbroken.

Back to work.