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12-18-2013, 01:48 PM
What did Jesus have to say about gays and birth control?
Seems there is no theological basis for the position of the Catholic Church. It is just a stance they have taken for hundreds of years.
Which is fine. But people are confusing the fact that the Church reflected societies prejudices for hundreds of years. But the fact there was no theological basis for doing so went unquestioned since society sided with the church.
Now that society has moved on - it isn't unreasonable for the church to change as well. Since the position of the church was never actually based on any of the teachings of Jesus. But instead a reflection of the majority opinion of society.
The same thing happened when the church decided to accept the teachings of Gallieo and Darwin.
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12-18-2013, 01:57 PM
I'm an atheist now - but I used to be a Catholic altarboy. So - I am familiar with alot of the traditions of the church.
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09-25-2015, 11:57 AM
I was raised in the Catholic faith, my Father's Aunt was a Mother Superior and lived a life of service to others.
That said when the Church begged for donations to pay over $5 Billion in settlements to little boys who were butt blasted by homosexual predatory pedophile priests - crimes they should have all been imprisoned for and not sheltered by the Church moving these criminals around to new parishes so they could prey on more little boys.
I swore to never give another dime to the organized Church ever again.
I am now more Lutheran than Catholic in the critical spirit of the original Father Martin Luther.
That said, I just watched the sincerity and shared feeling of loss by Pope Francis at ground Zero and the 9/11 Memorial Museum and he mentioned the heroic first responders several times and met with a number of their families. I found this to be genuine and heartfelt even though he is the worlds most powerful social justice liberation theologian - it is likely that the Holy Father becomes the new patron saint of the NYC Fire Department, Police and EMT first responders.
Curious how former Mayor Michael Bloomberg injected himself into the 9/11 memorial proceedings with former Mayor Giuliani missing. Bloomberg must be on the board of the memorial foundation. Governor Cuomo actually showed up for blessings with his unmarried long time female "partner". Can't make this stuff up. Anything goes in 2015.
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09-26-2015, 12:33 PM
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09-26-2015, 12:40 PM
Is the Pope there to serve and guide the faithful, or the leftists?
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09-26-2015, 12:58 PM
The more I read about history and Christianity, the more I cannot separate the latter Roman empire from Christianity.
The Vatican and the Pope are the well-preserved and isolated zombie brain of the Roman Empire.
They subsumed Christianity after they originally fought it in order to help spread the Roman ideas. Now, they're subsuming western liberalism, making it their own, and attempting to continue the spread.
Rome never fell. It just lost the name.
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09-26-2015, 03:44 PM
Pope Francis is Time's Man of the Year and all my leftist libtard friends love him. That tells me all I need to know.
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