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Is there no such thing as a former Catholic, or are there only former Catholics? Discuss today's Opinion Daily.
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This is your brain. This is your brain being washed with someone else's hands. Any Questions?
2. Wow Mark! How dare the RC Church "target" immigrants. Next it will proclaim that these people are made in God's image, have human dignity, and thus have basic human rights! This is dangerous. I do agree with you that RC clergy often stifle conscience formation and discourage people to act according to their conscience. I also agree that the biblical theme of sheep/shepherds should not be the primary metaphor today. I pray that you "recover" from your Catholicism to the point that you feel able to follow your conscience even in a religious community comprised of people with different cultural backgrounds and opinions than yourself.
3. Obviously in this section only quotations from and/or doubt or critique of the Bible and the Catholic Church are tolerated, or the LA Times is perpetually maintaining its website in order to censor anonymously like most believers do, like one-way traffic in LA, for safety reasons, naturally. According to alleged world teacher Maitreya, all religions must take responsibility for the suffering in the world. Religion isn't something you buy in the supermarket or keep changing, like your sex or your parents. At the time you are about to choose, you already left home.
4. If someone is a true believer -- in any religion, how can they accept the notion that another religion is OK? It goes to the issue of religion being a set of values that is chosen to validate one's preexisting value system and a church being a place to find others with same values. How does someone have faith in their view of god and their rules when they think it's OK for religions preaching a different god and set of rules. How is a church different than a political party?
5. I don't call myself an ex-catholic, I call myself a recovering catholic. After being raised a devout catholic I know feel it is based purely on guilt. Don't dare question the church. I think that is why there are so many references to sheep in the bible. That is what they want, sheep who follow and do not question. This I feel is one of the biggest contributing factors to the sex abuse scandal. Until bishops are held accountable for their criminal actions the numbers will decline. Also, they are know targeting immigrants as their next flock!
6. The Bible clearly states that there is only one way to God and that is thru His Son Jesus Christ. It's important to raise your child in a way that he is introduced to God and when he grows up he will decide for himself. The Church seems to indoctrinate rather than introduce God's Word. As for Darwin's theory. Much has been done with cell research. The current, though seldom reported, belief is that due to the complex working of cells it is highly unlikely that Darwin's theory is a explanation. If Darwin had all of the technology availabe in his time that we have now, he would have drawn a different conclusion
7. I left the Catholic church when my husband, in good conscience could not join the Catholic church, and I, in good conscience, could join his. Now I am an ordained clergy women in a church that appreciates and encourages me to use my pastoral and sacramental gifts. Looking bcak, it's sort of like leaving an authoritarian "top-down" regime and coming to a place that really does practice "the priesthood of all believers."
8. What turned me off of being a Catholic was when they no longer required abstaining from eating meet on Fridays. When George Carlin asked " What happened to all the people who went to hell on a meat rap?"
9. I believe that the way US citizens switch churches is proof of an awakining of reason. After throwing off the shackels of your childhood religion for another how far away can throwing off the shackels all together be. The time for believing in fairy tales is coming to an end. Science has proved that none of the "great" religious texts got it right. If these texts were inspired they would be perfect in every way. Why would a god forget to add a map of the human genome to a book about the origins of man?
10. Asserting that people are leaving the Catholic Church due to something the church has done is ironic when considering the universal human acknowledgment of an omnipresent truth. Commitment to an arbitrary object of faith through an arbitrary act of faith is experientially unreasonable. Changing the object of faith, an equally arbitrary act, is understood to be devoid of consequence. Ironically, the foundation of any faith-based institution is undermined by the transcendent; by truth itself.
Submitted by: Inner truth
2. Wow Mark! How dare the RC Church "target" immigrants. Next it will proclaim that these people are made in God's image, have human dignity, and thus have basic human rights! This is dangerous. I do agree with you that RC clergy often stifle conscience formation and discourage people to act according to their conscience. I also agree that the biblical theme of sheep/shepherds should not be the primary metaphor today. I pray that you "recover" from your Catholicism to the point that you feel able to follow your conscience even in a religious community comprised of people with different cultural backgrounds and opinions than yourself.
Submitted by: Jeremy
3. Obviously in this section only quotations from and/or doubt or critique of the Bible and the Catholic Church are tolerated, or the LA Times is perpetually maintaining its website in order to censor anonymously like most believers do, like one-way traffic in LA, for safety reasons, naturally. According to alleged world teacher Maitreya, all religions must take responsibility for the suffering in the world. Religion isn't something you buy in the supermarket or keep changing, like your sex or your parents. At the time you are about to choose, you already left home.
Submitted by: Jaap den Haan
4. If someone is a true believer -- in any religion, how can they accept the notion that another religion is OK? It goes to the issue of religion being a set of values that is chosen to validate one's preexisting value system and a church being a place to find others with same values. How does someone have faith in their view of god and their rules when they think it's OK for religions preaching a different god and set of rules. How is a church different than a political party?
Submitted by: Carlos Almond
5. I don't call myself an ex-catholic, I call myself a recovering catholic. After being raised a devout catholic I know feel it is based purely on guilt. Don't dare question the church. I think that is why there are so many references to sheep in the bible. That is what they want, sheep who follow and do not question. This I feel is one of the biggest contributing factors to the sex abuse scandal. Until bishops are held accountable for their criminal actions the numbers will decline. Also, they are know targeting immigrants as their next flock!
Submitted by: Mark
6. The Bible clearly states that there is only one way to God and that is thru His Son Jesus Christ. It's important to raise your child in a way that he is introduced to God and when he grows up he will decide for himself. The Church seems to indoctrinate rather than introduce God's Word. As for Darwin's theory. Much has been done with cell research. The current, though seldom reported, belief is that due to the complex working of cells it is highly unlikely that Darwin's theory is a explanation. If Darwin had all of the technology availabe in his time that we have now, he would have drawn a different conclusion
Submitted by: research science
7. I left the Catholic church when my husband, in good conscience could not join the Catholic church, and I, in good conscience, could join his. Now I am an ordained clergy women in a church that appreciates and encourages me to use my pastoral and sacramental gifts. Looking bcak, it's sort of like leaving an authoritarian "top-down" regime and coming to a place that really does practice "the priesthood of all believers."
Submitted by: Margaret
8. What turned me off of being a Catholic was when they no longer required abstaining from eating meet on Fridays. When George Carlin asked " What happened to all the people who went to hell on a meat rap?"
Submitted by: Dan
9. I believe that the way US citizens switch churches is proof of an awakining of reason. After throwing off the shackels of your childhood religion for another how far away can throwing off the shackels all together be. The time for believing in fairy tales is coming to an end. Science has proved that none of the "great" religious texts got it right. If these texts were inspired they would be perfect in every way. Why would a god forget to add a map of the human genome to a book about the origins of man?
Submitted by: Enlightenment gets closer everyday
10. Asserting that people are leaving the Catholic Church due to something the church has done is ironic when considering the universal human acknowledgment of an omnipresent truth. Commitment to an arbitrary object of faith through an arbitrary act of faith is experientially unreasonable. Changing the object of faith, an equally arbitrary act, is understood to be devoid of consequence. Ironically, the foundation of any faith-based institution is undermined by the transcendent; by truth itself.
Submitted by: RHJ
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